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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an attorney and there isn't a day that goes by when I don't wish that I had gone to culinary school instead.  I wish that I had been your daughter and realized that that's what I wanted at 16 rather than at 36, when it was way, way too late.[/quote]

a.) People often find that when they try to turn their passions into paying work, it ruins their love for the hobby

b.) you probably make a lot more money as an attorney which affords you nice things that you wouldn't have as a caterer or chef, such as vacations. It's a really hard industry to make an UMC living from.[/quote]

This is just sad to read. I would never ever say this to a child. Getting to a "UMC living" through a corporate soul crushing job might be worth to some, some even forget that life outside of work exists. Those mediocre engineers, analysts, attorneys, that went into the field purely to earn a living are often miserable.[/quote]

You're being very unrealistic. Say this girl wants to stay in the DC area. Do you know how hard it would be to save up a DP to buy an apartment or a house on a part time caterer/part time dance teacher salary? We're talking paycheck to paycheck existence here.

I don't fault the OP for wanting better than that for her daughter.[/quote]

OK, so OP sits down with OP's 16-year-old daughter and says, "Honey, I want you to have an upper-middle-class income when you grow up -- defined as, enough to buy property in a neighborhood in Montgomery County with "good schools" -- so you need to major in science in college, and you shouldn't go into catering or dance."

Do you think that sounds ludicrous? I do.
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I don't. I wish my parents had known enough to have that talk with me (history major).

I plan to have it with my children when they are older. We make a very nice living and will be able to help them somewhat as adults but if they want to have the lifestyle they enjoy now with a nice house in an expensive area, several vacations a year, college savings and expensive extracurricular activities for any kids they might have, they'll have to get a job that pays more than catering.

I have a feeling the OP has a nice lifestyle now if the daughter is such a serious dancer that she auditioned for a competitive school in NYC. They must spend a lot on dance classes.[/quote]

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