How important for you was it that your child gets a job after college?

[Anonymous]

Finance major and then a MBA. Neither finance nor doing a MBA were passions for me.

Retired in my mid-forties. Life is good! And, yes, we steered our children into fields that offered promising job prospects. Never faced a situation where one of them wanted to do something esoteric that would have offered limited job prospects.

One can steer/guide children to fields that they have some innate talent without using coercion. It works ...... keep an open mind to it.

[Anonymous]

If a friend asked for your advice, you'd give it. Young adults probably won't ask for your advice but I think as parents who are probably paying, you should give advice.

But that's it. You don't get to choose. Mentioned once/twice as a suggestion, that's it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The notion that everyone “needs” to work or “should” work in antiquated. There is a nascent movement, which will take hold within our children’s adult lives, that we can eliminate the “need” for everyone to work by automating everything that can be automated. We can start by eliminating "busy work" jobs.

Industrial society has driven down the cost of production through two things: exploitation of cheap overseas labor, and mechanization and automation. Mechanization has vastly reduced the need for labor. More could be done to continue this trend, but historically it has been opposed by unions because it puts people out of work. In Japan where there is a labor shortage and aging population they automate everything that can be automated. Any remaining jobs should be divided up between everyone who wants to work, reducing the hours of all jobs until all those who want to work have the working hours that they want.

We need to change how society thinks about people who do not work. Stop resenting them, stop begrudging them any small luxuries that they may have. Every adult citizen would receive a salary, paid to them by the government, of enough to cover basic living costs. It would perhaps be set at a level that would cover one person living in a shared house or a couple living together.

This sounds very "far out" but it is the future - there just isn't so much work that everyone needs to work.

Ummmm, where is "the government" going to get the money to pay everyone a salary for doing nothing?

[Anonymous]

No. Because they are trust fund babies. They can do what they want - except drugs and destructive behavior.

[Anonymous]

Invest or take loans for over $100K and then look to take a job in one of these fields? I don't think so.

http://college.usatoday.com/2014/08/13/the-top-10-lowest-paying-college-majors/

A sure prescription for living with parents for the foreseeable future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DS IS AN English major. Essentially unemployed for 3+ years now. I wish I had been more involved in steering him away from English as a major.

His unemployment has nothing to do with his major, and everything to do with not having thought about or knowing what his goals were during college. THAT'S where you should have been more involved.

+1. Planning ahead, networking and internships are the key thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DS IS AN English major. Essentially unemployed for 3+ years now. I wish I had been more involved in steering him away from English as a major.

His unemployment has nothing to do with his major, and everything to do with not having thought about or knowing what his goals were during college. THAT'S where you should have been more involved.

Is this from your personal or your DC's experience? Or are you just full of...