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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My wife graduated in 2010 with a degree in English from University of Virginia with ZERO experience and never had a job in her life.  She took off one semester in her senior year and attended as many technology conferences as she could even though she knew nothing about technologies other than powering on/off her Apple macbook.  Many of the conferences let her in free of charge, I guess because of her good look, and she made her "networking" there.  At one of those conferences, she met my mother, who was an SES in the federal government at the time, over lunch and they quickly became friends.  My now wife told my mother that she was looking for a job so my mother picked up the phone and called one of the government contractors that reported to her and asked them if they were willing to hire someone with an English major for technical writing documentation.  They of course said yes and paid her a salary of 80K per year.  When my mother left the government for the private sector, she took my now wife with her and promoted her to Technical Project Manager (TPM) and her salary went from 90K to 150K.  I met my wife at my mother's Christmas party and the rest is history.  My wife is now a SVP at a F500 company through one of my mother's friends.  It is about connections.  YMMV.

The point here is that technology companies need English majors too, not just Engineering and CS.  OP's kid needs to go to technology conferences and meet people and it will definitely help.  He/she only needs one person to say yes and go from there.  Most of the time, it is the English major people that do well in technology companies.  Someone needs to manage those tech people.  [/quote]

This is the most important post of the entire thread. Share this with your daughter.

Since you daughter is already bringing in a large sum tutoring she should look less at pay being offered and more about how she would like working for each employer.  She can still do tutoring as side work.[/quote]

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