My parents were supportive, but one thing they never did was tell me what to do! The idea of working similar to my dad, not always in the office, seemed good to me. When I finished college, I decided to work in a Consulting Engineering firm first. There I worked in the office designing Water Supply Schemes. I go out of the office usually a couple of times a week for site visits and meetings on Design.
When you are working in the office there are many people around, all ready to help you when you need it. You get to see all the different things you can do with Engineering. It was talking to the people I worked with, who had learnt so much working on site, that made me leave the comforts of the office to work on a construction site.