"Wisdom" of a Father

Since the beginning of this summer, I wanted a summer job. I wanted this job for two reasons: One was to earn more money than what im being paid at home and the Second was to be a little bit more independent from my parents. I honestly didn't want to rely on their help for EVERYTHING. Recently, I've been looking up summer jobs...from fast food...to Blockbuster...to working at Vons. When I had decided to work at Vons, my dad stopped me. Very abruptly. He sat me down and told me that I had my whole life ahead of me to earn money. He said that this was the time to study more at school. He then got into the many aspects of life that I didn't exactly wanted to think about in the summer time...such as COLLEGE...FUTURE CAREER...things like that. He had brought into perspective for me...

Just when he had given me things that I was actually gonna listen to...he had to pull something else: Religion. He had said that "religion was just 'guidelines' for one's life. To do good things and bad things." He had also hinted that religion should take a backseat to my studies. This was the observation of a man who had lived in the corrupt world for a much longer time than me...and of course it had influenced him as well. He lets me go to church, youth group, study bible. But he thinks of it as nothing more than a hobby.

I don't know whether to be angry or sad or what to do at this point about my dad. All i know that is i need some prayer...and God will take care of the rest.