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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Listening to an advisor who just spits out “accounting” without understanding what your kids enjoys and what their strengths are is ludicrous. I would tell her not to listen to this person at all and tell her to just take classes she likes. IR with a language is perfectly fine as a major.[/quote]

She is not fine with her major though. We did try to tell her this, but kids these days have it very tough in terms of employment prospects and she could not shake her worries about future employment, hence her constant panic and reevaluating. I’m sure she told the advisor about all this and wanting good career prospects.[/quote]

I totally get it, but you may be at the point where she needs someone to talk to about her anxiety more than she needs some advisor. She can just google careers that make the most money and are the least likely to be replaced by AI. That is the level of advice that this person is giving her.[/quote]

She went to ask about finance though she had considered accounting. She’s not open to most majors (no health, no engineering, no humanities due to job worries…) so it only leaves so many options on the table. I just worry accounting is much too intense, with no way to study abroad (no time in this program which is 3.5 years then Master’s) which she was looking forward to doing, the extra summer semester…but I also worry that I’d be overstepping if I said that.[/quote]

I don't think it's overstepping to rationally discuss the implications of her choices. If she majors in accounting, she won't be able to study abroad, it will be very intense and involve summer study. If she majors in x, there will be other implications. Pick a path. Yep, choices are hard. Either way, she will figure it out, and things will work out.[/quote]

Yes, she said all that, and studying abroad was something extremely important to her (languages are her passion, she is continuing with that a bit, but minimally). Now she is going to not study abroad, and as you say not going to have a summer either. It all sounds terrible to me...But she knows all this and still seems to be going for it. I just worry it's the wrong path.[/quote]

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