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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP your daughter sounds  like my son, he has a CS degree but after working a couple of years he wants to pursue something else.  And his new idea is not as financially lucrative, so we are encouraging him to continue to work,  make good money and save until he decides on his next plan.

He is only 26, so we support him and tell him that it’s not too late to start over. but at some point it will be. DH and I think my sons issue is that he thinks he doesn’t like working this job but it is probably just that he doesn’t like working at all.  We think our nerdy kid just doesn’t  want to  grow up.  :([/quote]

If your son is like my DD, he might just be bored. (My DD is 28, btw.)
I think DD is bored by her job, even though she likes it, and likes her colleagues. But her PhD program was incredibly intense, and I think working at that intellectual level does something to your brain that makes the ordinary working world seem too tedious and mundane. It's a conundrum because DD was tired after working so hard on her PhD, so her current job is a bit of a break, yet she's bored (IHMO), so is starting to feel restless. I think the money is just an excuse -- she needs to feel excited about something again. [/quote]

So maybe what she really needs is a serious hobby.  Right now she is living to work...she needs to shift to working to live.  For most of us, we enjoy our work to a certain degree, or hate it, but understand that we have to find things to make us happy outside of work.  A spouse and family usually does that, but it is hard sometimes when we are first starting out and we haven't found our identity outside of the structure of school.  I don't agree with other people that she's lazy and doesn't want to work, she's more lost and anxious, and doesn't want to work.[/quote]

PP, meant to add that school is probably a safe place where she knows what to do and knows she's good at it.  [/quote]

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