Thanks, everyone! She’s a HS Junior. She wants to shadow me on her next day off school. I work in tech and she’s mildly interested in this as a career. Agree that tech is a good place for a competent but not overly driven person to make a reasonable salary.

Anonymous wrote:Sells software
Finance
Flies around the US to parks looking for Endangered plants
Climb cell towers and take pictures and send them to engineers to see if they need to be fixed
Budget office
Teach for America -> mba program
Works for Microsoft as a client is facing advocate
Accountant
Cybersecurity audits
Shipping and receiving at a medical marijuana company


My kids and my nieces/nephews

Haha love this!

Sells software
Finance
Flies around the US to parks looking for Endangered plants
Climb cell towers and take pictures and send them to engineers to see if they need to be fixed
Budget office
Teach for America -> mba program
Works for Microsoft as a client is facing advocate
Accountant
Cybersecurity audits
Shipping and receiving at a medical marijuana company


My kids and my nieces/nephews

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Anonymous wrote:If she is interested in healthcare, nursing and physician's assistant's jobs are in high demand.

Take less time, less money and less effort than medical school but less debt, less stress and good income AND you get to help other humans just the same.

Being a PA or NP is a professional job and is not a vocational education.

"Many people have primary care providers that are NPs or PAs. But what's the difference? In baisic terms, a nurse practitioner is a registered nurse (RN) with advanced education and clinical training. A physician assistant is a medical professional with advanced education who is trained in the same way physicians are."

Neither is for Dumbo's.

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Anonymous wrote:If she is interested in healthcare, nursing and physician's assistant's jobs are in high demand.

Nurse practitioners and physicians assistant require graduate degrees. Nurse Practi-tioners undergrad degree must be in a science.

One of my kids graduated six years ago from a little known college. She was a D1 athlete but also studied Business Information System (BIS). She also didn't have good GPA due to commitment to the sport; however, that didn't hurt her chance. She graduated and went into technology sales with connections from one of the school alums. She is now managing a sale team of 15 people and making around 900K/year. Her older brother attended CMU in CS and he graduated eight years ago. His salary is around 200K/year, a lot less than his younger sister. Where you attended college doesn't determine your future outcome, at least not my kids situation. YMMV.

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Anonymous wrote:This post is beyond nuts. On so many levels.
Just, no.

I’m not sure why this is nuts. Do your adult children have jobs? I am in IT project management and my spouse is a teacher. Our experience is limited. My job didn’t exist when I was growing up. I’m wondering what adult children out of college are doing.

Healthcare clinical jobs. Is that like insurance administration and scheduling?

Ignore PP. The only professionals I knew growing up were my teacher and doctors, and I followed my passion in college and ended up in dead end career.

It’s good to ask around for what fields are hiring and growing for todays graduates. Granted doing so earlier than college would have been wiser, maybe that is PPs point?

Military officer. BS in computer science.

One's a nurse. One's a product manager.

The 3 of my kids who graduated in the last 6 years - one is a software engineer (BS CompSci), one is an analyst with the federal government (BA Criminology), and one is a data manager with a major university (BS Biology). The data manager is working on a master's degree in biostats.

Anonymous wrote:Thanks to the respondents. It’s true, I am afraid that she will fail to launch. Which is why I’m trying to figure out how to guide her. It’s all well and good to say “Follow your passion” but she is musical and dances. Not good enough to make a career of either and definitely does not want to teach. So, that’s not going to be very helpful for her. She’s engaging and not overwhelming socially. She’s a good, kind person who is willing to work hard but not highly driven in any direction. She’s taking economics this year. Curious how that will go.

Well, IMO the best career path for someone who wants an UMC income but isn't highly driven is tech.

Thanks to the respondents. It’s true, I am afraid that she will fail to launch. Which is why I’m trying to figure out how to guide her. It’s all well and good to say “Follow your passion” but she is musical and dances. Not good enough to make a career of either and definitely does not want to teach. So, that’s not going to be very helpful for her. She’s engaging and not overwhelming socially. She’s a good, kind person who is willing to work hard but not highly driven in any direction. She’s taking economics this year. Curious how that will go.

My sister is 28 so on the outside of your range. She was a comp sci major with a business minor. She went through the French immersion program in MCPS and continued French through college.

She’s living in Paris working as a consultant for a US firm.

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Anonymous wrote:If she is interested in healthcare, nursing and physician's assistant's jobs are in high demand.

Also nurse anesthetist.

Judging by one of my relatives, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners are doing pretty good too. She is mostly working from home doing online appointments. She only has in person hours one day a week.