How do I deal with my parents who don't get me at all?

They are speaking from their ego. I am excatly the same I am only 22 and feel like I have lived more of a life than most 80 year olds with the amount of stuff that has happened in my life. Funnily enough, don't you find that the older people are so closed off to life? Then we are supposed to aspire to be like them? I refuse to do that. I have been job hopping for like 3 years to try and find what really entrigues me and what I find interesting and what I want to do on a daily basis that makes me tick. It's tough, but it takes time. If your parents don't understand this, they need to look at themselves a little bit further. I am not meaning to offend your parents, but it's just life. Life is IN us, not our career. God, if career was my life I'd be ******. I don't define myself by my job title or what I do at work, I am me and that's the way I like it. I don't put on the poker face at work and start playing a "role" that I am supposed to. I am so honest and myself that this actually works in my favour because I don't speak from my ego, I speak from ME only. People like that. Say what you feel and you will have peace. The reason that you have a shitty relationship with your parents is because you put somewhat of a poker face on for them. Come from the heart and don't speak with your ego and you will be surprised that they will get off your back.