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[quote=Anonymous]OP, your DD's at a point where she needs to make a list of types of jobs that she might be interested in.  That will take research.  The jobs on her list can be diverse and can change as she learns more or changes her mind, but it's about exploring her options.  Then she can look into what she needs on her resume to get hired for each job.

Once she has a list of jobs that she wants to consider, she can start looking for courses, internships, clubs, informational interviews, independent studies with professors, etc, to learn more about the career options, build a network and get things on her resume that indicates interest.  It's a process.  I literally kept a word document with career options and hyperlinks to job postings, internships and other opportunities starting Christmas of freshman year of college.  It was a working document for me.  Some of the things I found were for college seniors or even were graduate programs, but I put them in the document so I had them as a reminder and looked at the pre-reqs to apply to the opportunity later.

She's not floundering to not have the full answer at 19 yo. But it's time for her to work on figuring out more of an answer for herself over the next few years so she's not in the same place at graduation.  [/quote]

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