They advise students to pursue those silly careers listed there for two reasons:
1. They are ideal careers for people who have been infantilized in school.
2. These are the career paths most high school counselors come from.
There are a few studies that suggest that high school advisors and career counselors spend over sixty percent of their time helping the sons and daughters of the middle and upper middle class get into the Ivies or similar named colleges.
You are exactly correct. High school teachers aren't much better. Teaching doesn't pay what engineering jobs pay. Only rarely would an engineering graduate teach high school.
On the other hand, students develop interest in STEM fields spontaneously. Those students find their own way, right through college.
Very little of what I learned in the college environment was applicable to my career. I self-taught by reading mountains of technical books. It is certain that such is the norm rather than the exception.
Parents are stupid who do not foster interests in their kids in toddlerhood at Christmas
Keep up with the news and business futures
Foster a love of learning
Quit being controlling and idiotic
Know a quick budget. Know that real estate is out of control