Wow, that mirrors our family in so many ways. I am a linguist and historian with a huge library of language centered books, my wife was a nurse with another big library. We have five children.
The children have turned into a professional writer, 1 x business major running scheduling, computer IT guy and another is doing her degree in physics. The youngest boy threw it all out the window and drives trucks.
I wouldn’t knock the trucker. In our cast, During the lockdown stupidity he usd the most important job in our family. He drove for a lumberyard and kept hundreds of men employed