Blocks my ideas, desires, abilities for education, career

 no support or encouragement for my abilities capabilities 

says i can't do anything, don't have ability to do anything i want to have done around the house or with the vehicle

too old to go to school (said this when I was 30 years old)

true scrooge grinch ebenezer 

said 'i am not supporting you while you go to school you're going to have to work while you go if you go to school' way back in the 90s when i was getting unemployment compensation and the government offered free educational programs paid for up to 9 months of schooling