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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Exactly!  Kid can continue to tutor, [b]take business classes[/b] on the side and perhaps open their own tutoring company.  This is a very lucrative business in most major metropolitan areas.   Your kid has a meaningful, well paying job, that they can easily turn into more if they want.  Or they can continue to do the tutoring while they pursue an advanced degree, but I highly recommend them figuring out what they'd really like to do.  No point in a MA in English if the tutoring company is what they want to purse.  So work the tutoring gig and do an internship (for low or no pay ) in publishing/ editing to see if that's what they really want to do.

Here's the thing, most people with a BA in English do NOT "use their English degree" directly for their career...they use the fact they have a BA and ability to write/critically think to pursue whatever interests them. 
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Should have done this in the first place. 
Major in business and double major or minor in English.

That's what my kid is doing in a T20 school.
Business Analytics msjor and 2nd major in psychology.

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