milee
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Post by milee on Nov 28, 2016 13:06:56 GMT -5
I think it's important to encourage your kids in 2 ways when it comes to a career. 1. What will make them happy? 2. What will provide them the financial rewards they need/desire? I think both really go toward "what will make you happy", but kids often don't grasp that doing something "fun" for their career may make them unhappy in other parts of their life if they aren't making money. For example, you may love art and want to be an artist and decide to do that as a career...but if you also love travel, you may not be able to afford that on a struggling artist's pay.
Exactly. I have a friend that's experiencing this. He's got his dream job as a coach for a prestigious college sailing team so he gets to sail constantly, travel and live a lifestyle he loves. The other end of the stick, though, is he doesn't make much money and is finding it increasingly hard to date and live a lifestyle that attracts the girls he's interested in. It's not a big deal to be broke and dating when you're in college or dating college aged women, but he's finding that it's harder to date older, professionally oriented women when you've got very limited funds. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he meets a Sugar Mama and she's OK with his lifestyle, but if that doesn't happen, he's either going to have to adjust his ideas of the types of women and relationship he wants or find a way to earn more money.
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shanendoah
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Post by shanendoah on Nov 28, 2016 13:40:43 GMT -5
One of the reasons I moved to Seattle was that UW is one of the few schools (about 10) in the entire country to offer a masters degree is Museum Studies. When it came time to get my masters degree, I went and got an MBA instead. My reasoning was that I could get the degree that would (kind of) help me get the dream job, or I could get the degree that would help me get the job that would let me live my dream life. I chose the 2nd. BUT (and this is a big but), I was 30 when I entered my masters program. It is can be hard to get 18 year olds to realize there is a difference between dream job and dream life.
I still don't think STEM is end all/be all. I have a BA in History with a minor in English (writing). I have an MBA with a focus in innovation management. None of these are STEM degrees. I am highly employable.
At the same time, I work in a department where the employers asked us to move the career fair to earlier in the academic year, because come January, all the "best" students already had summer internships or post-graduation jobs lined up. (Graduation is mid June.)
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