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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I don’t understand why this generation expects work to be meaningful or fulfilling. Work is a way to make money for all but the wealthy. So why the navel-gazing and entitlement?[/quote]

Perhaps mentoring is not for you. These students are making it clear that they think work can be meaningful and fulfilling, and you're missing their cues to guide them towards professions and jobs that might fulfill that.

My parents worked public service jobs that they found meaningful and fulfilling, and so do I. Work makes me money but it also helps me feel like my existence makes a difference (for the people I work with). It's certainly not entitlement, as I am working-class. But it works for me and many other people.[/quote]

I love this response.

I could have done many things in my life after attending a great college and getting two useful degrees. I went into teaching instead of following the path of my masters, which would have led to more money. I wanted a meaningful and fulfilling job. It doesn’t pay tons, but it pays enough that I can live comfortably.

I’m not sure you should be mentoring, OP. There are tons of meaningful jobs, and there is nothing wrong with living a modest, yet comfortable, life. I find value in my work, not in what type of travel I can afford. There are many like me. [/quote]

Me too.

My H is a cop and did child abuser investigations. Very hard work but fulfilling.

I worked doing computer support for doctors. [/quote]

Thank you to your H for doing that important (and likely heartbreaking) work.

I guess that’s why I don’t get the point of threads like this. There is truly valuable work that needs to be done in schools, in the community, etc. What is so wrong about raising kids who want to make the world a better place? Why would anyone dissuade a student from selecting a meaningful, contributing job? (Looking at you now, OP.)

My college-bound kid is looking to nursing or teaching. I’m proud of her, as I am all students who select fields that give back. [/quote]

The point of this thread is to illiterate everything that is wrong with an Ivy mentor and their ilk.

It’s what’s wrong with how kids are raised to think Ivy-&gt; Wall Street (or dr/lawyer) or you are a failure.

It shows how thinking you must make a HHI of $400K is all wrong and actually terrible.[/quote]

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