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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Twelve is a good time to start to look for her strengths and look for ways to optimize her career path.  Figure out what she is good at and see if you can find a way to guide her towards a career that makes the most of those strengths.  It may not necessarily be college or a professional type job.  In fact, odds are it won't be.  One of the problems millennials faced is that so many of them had parents that pushed them into college that we ended up with many more college grads than there were professional level jobs for them.

But there are many jobs that require vocational or technical skills that do not require a fast thinker or an above average intelligence where she could be very successful.  Cooking, HVAC, electrical work, carpentry, plumbing, clerical skills, mechanics, nursing, and dental hygienist are just a few of the careers that don't require a college degree (at least not for all jobs in these careers) and that people can be very successful at.  Additionally, someone can go into retail and become a manager or supervisor and still make a decent living.

The important thing is to steer her towards the things that she does well and then for her to go towards a career that takes advantage of the skills that she does have. [/quote] You're on crack if you think nurses and dental hygienists don't have college degrees. They absolutely do. Even a 2 year associates degree takes 4 years with all the prerequisite classes. [/quote]

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