[HPforGrownups] Re: a thought about career's advice

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 100939

> You'd think kids would need this info when choosing what subjects 
to take...
> 
> Alina.

Sherry

How many kids have any idea what they want to do for a career, when they are
12 or 13?  I certainly didn't.  My niece is 16, and she still doesn't know.
My best friend's son is 14, and he doesn't have a clue yet.  I don't think
career advice would have been very effective at 12.  In high school, kids
take electives, but it is often just things that interest them or that they
think will be easy.  It doesn't always have anything to do with what they
end up doing later.  I thought the career advice was perfectly timed in
their fifth year, as they are preparing for their O.W.L.'S and considering
what they might want to study next year.  Of course, I have known some
people who have known what they wanted to do for most of their lives, but
that hasn't been the norm.

Sherry G