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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP here. One of the kids I mentor is from a small midwestern town and told me they don't have anyone to ask these questions to because they literally (until college) had never met anyone who works in their chosen career field. Probably nobody in their chosen field within hundreds of miles of their hometown.[/quote]

I'm the FG student above, and although I was "low income" in general, I was "middle class" for my community. I came from a town so small that the middle and high schools had been consolidated, and like your student above didn't know anyone studying in my chosen field. I worked while I was in school, and I worked summers for pay rather than for experience because I had no idea how to get where I wanted to go. Heck, I had no idea where I wanted to go, except that I knew that the first step was keeping my head down and getting outstanding grades. I kind of hoped everything would fall into place after that. It took years to understand the places where I could have done something different, and I still feel lucky that I ended up in a great job that is miles different from the manual labor my parents did until old age. [/quote]

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