["Oh, don't worry. You'll get a job. You have a PhD!"]

My parents are similar, in that they can't imagine I might end up not getting a postdoc, not working in academia, or not even having a job in astrophysics. This isn't only my impostor syndrome surfacing; jobs in astrophysics are just incredibly hard to get at this point. However, I remind myself that my family doesn't really understands what I do. There was this funny picture shared by a friend on FB, which made a similar point:

Asking my parents to "get" how challenging is going to be to find an astrophysics job is... well, a little too much, and probably unnecessary too.

Now, does it bother me? Yes and no. It's not their attitude that's really the problem, I think, but my fear of what they'll think if I don't make it, if they will be faced with the fact that I might not be quite as smart/amazing as they think I am. (As an aside, I'm dealing with a very similar issue in another aspect of my life, and I'm seeing someone at the university's counseling center to get some help with it.)

This is very interesting go3187. Look at this article. According to them astronomy grads are one of the best off majors:

http://www.bundle.com/article/college-majors-high-unemployment-rates/?frommsn=true

This shows how ignorant they can be while writing this articles.