Potter's Legacy.

Is it wise and right if the potter trains his offspring to become a potter? Is he limiting the chances of the child becoming someone else? The analogy is for dentists who are thinking of making their children dentists so that they can carry on the legacy.

Here are the advantages :

1. The struggle has already been done, the platform is set, and now the child can only grow from here, bring new ideas and energy to the practice and take it to the next level.

2. The goodwill has already been established.

3. Financial freedom is to the next level.

4. The child will always be one up compared to the first-generation dentists who will be his competitors.

5. He or she can pick and chose the procedures that excite and interests them.

6. There is going to be ripple effect in everything when the experienced dentist parent and the newbie energetic child

Here are the disadvantages :

1. The child has to work under/with the parent who has a rigid/set mindset about how things are done. So it is the parent who has to be welcoming and flexible.

2. The disadvantage of missing out on other career opportunities - dentistry at times can feel very limiting, it is difficult to scale it in a way a manufacturing business can be scaled. A good MNC job can help you live the most luxurious life one can imagine, one can become a big hot-shot lawyer. But then a potter's son who chooses pottery as a career will have a generation of knowledge and an unfair advantage which others will never have.

Overall, while there are many advantages, there are also disadvantages and one has to find the right answer according to one's own interset in the field.