"My mom is a mechanical engineer"

"My mom is a mechanical engineer"
"Really?"
"That's cool!"
"Yeah, but when we were born she stopped to take care of us"
"That's nice!"
"Oh?"
"Yeah, she didn't work when we were little and now shes a teacher!
Out of all the things!
AND she earns nothing!"
"What a waste! All that math for nothing"
"Yeah...she might as well never have studied engineering!"
Conversations like that make me wonder.
Am I really that ridiculous for wanting to be like that girl's mother?
I want to be able to drop everything for my kids.
Be there for them.
Take care of them.
See them grow.
And make me laugh.
Because as everyone knows, "Kid's Say The Darndest Things".
I just don't get why people see that as a waste.
Her mom didn't waste anything.
She studied what she wanted.
She dropped her job when she wanted.
She got a job doing something else she liked.
In my head, she did all the things she wanted to do.
All the things that made her happy.
Now and before.
Yet, some people see that as a waste.
A waste of what?
All that information is still in her head.
It's not like it got erased.
I just don't get it.
It baffles my mind.
I really does.
A lot.
My greatest wish is to become a mother.
A mother and a wife.
God willing, of course.
People just don't seem to get that.
I wish they did.