Posted on 12/30/2024 6:05:03 AM PST by daniel1212
School Counselors Recommended Careers
Career Recommendations by School Counselors: School counselors often recommend careers that align with a student’s interests, skills, and academic strengths. Based on their expertise, here are some careers that school counselors commonly recommend to students:
Mental Health Counselors: School counselors may recommend this career path to students who are interested in helping others and have a passion for mental health.
Teachers: For students who enjoy teaching and mentoring, school counselors may suggest a career in education, such as teaching at the elementary, middle, or high school level.
Social Workers: Students who are interested in social justice and want to make a difference in their community may be encouraged to pursue a career in social work.
Career Coaches: School counselors may recommend this career path to students who are interested in helping others navigate their career options and develop job search skills.
School Psychologists: For students who are interested in psychology and education, school counselors may suggest a career as a school psychologist, where they can work with students to address learning and behavioral challenges.
Guidance Counselors: Students who are interested in working in education and helping students navigate their academic and personal lives may be encouraged to pursue a career as a guidance counselor.
College Advisors: School counselors may recommend this career path to students who are interested in helping others navigate the college application process and develop plans for post-secondary education.
Substance Abuse Counselors: For students who are interested in helping others overcome addiction and substance abuse issues, school counselors may suggest a career as a substance abuse counselor.
This is applicable for people who do not have the brain power to be curious or inventive.
We need to keep in mind the wise words of Talking Barbie:
"Math class is hard. Let's go shopping."
I joined the military out of high school because I DID NOT want to go to college. I remember my high school guidance counselors shock when I told her that I was thinking of joining the military. She said, “Oh no, you don’t want to go in the military, that’s for losers and stupid people. No let’s get your college applications in order.”
Little did she know just how much that affected me and I vowed to (and did) join the military shortly after.
By-and-by, I really liked that lifestyle and reenlisted while also going to college. By the time I retired I had my master’s in computer science.
I then taught Microsoft and Unix certification courses for 20 years at a university. I retired from that and then worked for Microsoft teaching Azure technologies for my last few years.
Many of my students have achieved their goals. None of their career/financial goals came out of for-credit courses as much as getting their certifications did.
Interesting...in 1988 my son’s school counselor recommended he not go to college. (Do not remember him talking of an alternative.) He tried college for a couple quarters...and told me “college is not for me.” So, he went into his paternal grandfather’s trade...carpentry. He had done some in summers. A few years later he went out on his own, after asking me to fund the “Bond” he required. I said sure...lot cheaper than college education. At his 10th HS class reunion classmates complained of meager salaries as accountants, etc. He was supporting a wife & 4 kids and doing better than them. Fast forward to now...he has been Operations Manager of a $24 million construction co for about 10 yrs...and doing fine.
As I prepare to retire from 45 years in CS/EE, I'm still prepared to bench most electronics gear and repair it. I would need to rebuild my bench to have updated equipment to deal with modern gear. A Bird watt meter, calibrated frequency counter and VOM met most of my needs in the field in 1977. A Tektronix 475 scope and good battery string on the bench and dummy load did most of the balance.
Those are fighting words to me. Some of the brightest people I met were in the military. Ignorant people never seem to understand that stupid people do not last long in combat, nor can they fulfill support roles. The military is a great place to get started in meaningful careers.
Congratulations on your success. You earned yours.
For all the good and mostly bad high screwl counselors do they need to be on the chopping block. AI certainly has a social slant doesn’t it?
Exactly! Now everyone let’s hear what an idiot musk is.
No engineers, physicist, chemists, doctors, software developers in the group. I think I see why we need H1-b. Mostly feminine, government centered jobs.
No, because this list is coming from “AI”. Which probably has no data at all on guidance counselors actually say. But the word “counselor” was in the question it was asked, so it used it, a lot. Cause AI ain’t intelligent, it just spits words around.
Because the AI doesn’t actually “understand” your question at all. It’s a random word generator. You asked it a question that had the word “counselor” in it and it found a bunch of sentences in its database that had the word “counselor” and synonyms in them and spit them back out at you. It has zero data at all about what guidance counselors actually say, it just made crap up.
The bottom third of the class are sent to teaching.
School counselor = idiotic advice of what not to do. STEM is the future and wasn’t on their list. Of course they can’t spell SPEM or even know what it is. In the 1980s I met with the useless yet highly paid person once. I was told some BS recommendation yet got a BSEE.
IF AI is to be faulted, when it actually answered the question, then how bad is the algorithm which would not, while Google AI provided links for each of its few AI results.
No AI, which is not a monolithic machine, but its sources and counselors overall are.
And besides liberal counselors, some also know that most kids today are not fit for much more.
And has an actually essential trade!
If the government was psychologically analyzed, what would the diagnosis be.
Indeed, it is not just H1-B workers.
In my area it is almost impossible to find a good plumber, electrician, or carpenter at any price. I know a person who spent four years in the Navy learning to repair electronics. He now has an electronics repair business he runs out of his garage with a 3 month backlog. His annual income is well over $100,000 per year. The biggest impediment to growing his business is finding another skilled electronics technician to employ.
And no college debt!
The new administration should immediately slash federal funding to liberal arts colleges and universities and shift the money to working with the states to develop world class vocational education centers. If we are to return manufacturing to the United States we will need millions of skilled workers to build and maintain the robotic factories of the future.
Indeed.
I think I could do a lot with it, by the grace of God, if not as much as after taxes.
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