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[quote=Anonymous][quote]You should be very very embarrassed that you don't understand connections and networking (yes, even through parents - no ESPECIALLY through parents) is how the real world works. Not taking every advantage and opportunity you have at your disposal, especially huge ones like having parents who know decision-makers, is just plain stupid.

You think George W. Bush would have gotten anywhere near as far as he did if it weren't for who his parents were? Is becoming President (regardless of what a terrible job he did) "failure to launch?"

If you're holding back on offering your connections to your kids out of some misguided attempt to make them independent, I feel very sorry for them.[/quote]

Totally agree with this...it's not what you know but who you know sometimes and giving your kid a leg up through your connections is totally ok and done all the time. It's all about networking!

That being said I have NEVER - not even when my kids were interviewing for teenage year/college summer jobs - been present at any of their job interviews! And I have one kid with ADHD and General Anxiety Disorder.  Sure, I may introduce them and make the initial "connection", but never ever will I be present (whether in person or virtually) during a job interview.

As an aside - driving them to an interview is fine...no different than them taking an Uber if for some reason they are without wheels at the time. [/quote]

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