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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks~

Her people skills are really really good already. She has a part time job as a hostess at a restaurant on the weekends, and really enjoys being around people ALL the time. She's really chatty, even with adults who are total strangers.

So while she does not have the intelligence, she definitely has other gifts...(and beauty, which honestly I know will help her out!-does that sound awful too?? lol)

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I grew up in a blue collar community.  Stuff that young women who weren't cut out for school, but had good people skills did -- EMT (who eventually went on to be a paramedic), hair dresser (who went on to own her own salon), secretary, dance teacher, nanny, daycare worker (who went on to manage the entire daycare), police officer, probation officer, drug/alcohol counselor, lawn business, cleaning business, photographer (who went on to own her own photography business doing weddings and such).

A four year degree isn't for everyone. [/quote]

I also know a bunch of people who went in the military. [/quote]

OP.  Gosh could this kid use the military.  She can't because of her disease, (and probably wouldn't want to anyway) but man it would be so good for her :)
This is my concern about the careers you listed: can those careers really pay enough to support yourself? I don't care if she does a job as a daycare worker, but there's no way in hell that is paying the bills.

I'll be honest that I am very worried that because she is very pretty, she could easily wind up being "taken care of".  And right now with her boyfriends in the past she seems to be pretty darn happy with that role.  That's my biggest fear.  Fast forward 30 years and she is divorced with kids, with no skills, and on her own.  I know SO many people in that position, and its terrifying for them.  She's too young and naiive to see that far ahead at this point.  while she's getting older, she's not old enough yet that I can just "let her be".[/quote]

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