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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Catering? Teaching dance?

I'm amazed at all the responses saying she should pursue these things. You know how much caterers and dance teachers make? She'll probably never break 75k in those combined endeavors and that'll be with her working ALL the time, including at night and on weekends when people throw typically parties.

The restaurant business in particular sucks. There is a reason why people who work in it often develop alcohol and drug problems. It's hard to go to work when mostly everyone else is relaxing.

Funny coming from a board where people complain about not having enough money on 300k HHI.[/quote]

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Speaking from personal experiences, these are the types of creative but flexible gigs best pursued by rich kids. If you're not rich, you'll have to *really* hustle to make a decent living and even then a lot of it will just depend on right time/rich place kind of luck. The PP is correct in thinking that if she's only making the median income and doesn't become a famous chef with multiple restaurants and cookbooks (which is like wanting to become an actor, it's very competitive), she probably won't break 75k. It's a career that is best pursued by kids whose parents can continue to subsidize them through adulthood with hefty down payments or even outright buying them a house, buying them a car, paying for them to take really nice family vacations, etc. so they still get to travel some.

If you can't afford to do these things for an adult child, OP, I would sit your daughter down and give her a serious talk about finances and how much money she is like to make as a part time caterer, part time dance teacher and what lifestyle that will afford her (probably not as nice as the one she grew up with).[/quote]

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