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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I respect you for not pushing college on your uninterested child. I think you have a couple of options here:

1) Let him get the certifications, etc. and have him try getting a job. At the same time, set expectations for him (e.g., if he is living at home, he must pay transportation expenses, be working full or at least a significant amount of the time, chip in to rent and food, whatever you think is reasonable). If he’s unable to find a job in IT, he will need to get another sort of job to ‘pay the bills’ and meet expectations, even if that job is a minimum wage fast food or retail job. If those are the only jobs he can get, he may be less interested in IT.

2) have him get involved with a trade school. Electrician, HVAC, maybe even some sort of more technical medical certification like ultrasound tech?

FWIW: my husband (who is fine now) barely made it through college and had several peers who didn’t go or dropped out. Most of them ended up getting their degrees a few years later when they realized that the jobs available to them were not appealing. They did well in college then as they’d matured and had a new perspective. Not saying college is a must, but he may change is tune in the future.

Good luck to your son! [/quote]

+1 to this plan. Some experience of the real world and the realities of job opportunities, plus just more maturity as he gets older, will likely get him thinking more about his options. [/quote]

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