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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any parents out there who paid $200K+ for college, kid did great, and now can't find job?
Kid graduated from top 20/30 school with honors and career center was completely worthless. [/quote]

(Kenyon College ?)

OP: If your kid is making $80,000 a year as a tutor, that is outstanding !

Why not continue tutoring while earning a master's degree in English or in Education ?

Could be lucrative if your son/daughter opens up a tutoring business.

Congratulations !!![/quote]

I think this could be a great option. What did your child want to do? Since she has an income now, she could take this time to go back for some type of grad degree or an additional bachelors to hone in on her future. She could probably keep the tutoring on the side.

If she has no debt from undergrad then she should have savings to find it. I was thinking what about looking at education and/or entrepreneurship and she could really work at opening a tutoring business. She can expand into doing summer camp, school’s out camps, etc. I think she’s in an excellent niche that could be really be successful if she gets some additional schooling and makes a business plan.

My other thought is to look at higher education positions. She could set an appointment with her school’s career center and get some guidance on where to go from here.

If teaching is an option and her tutoring clients are all after school, maybe she could get on the substitute teaching list and see if teaching is a career she might like or get a camp counselor type job for the summer and see if she likes that and sees how the set up is to expand her business. Unless she hates it,  build from where she is.[/quote]

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