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Yes we are immigrants. What worries me is not that he wants to work after undergraduate to get a break and to decide his path. He thinks his education is probably done unless he decides later to do any further studies.. He believes he can live fine in $30K salary. He has no experience living in financial hardship all his life. He does not understand how budget works and I am concerned that by the time he understands, it might be too late.

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The thing is that if he goes straight to grad school he's only prolonging not learning what it's like to live in the "real world" and need money for bills and budgets and so forth.  You may be surprised, his work experiences may lead him to develop the drive and motivation you feel he lacks.  He may see what opportunities do/don't exist out there for people with his background and come to his own realization that he needs an advanced career to move up in the world.   But he needs to come to these conclusions for himself or else grad school will be a total waste of time.  He won't choose a field he's passionate in and will approach his time there with the same lackadaisical attitude you feel he has now. [/quote]

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