Pat yourself on the back and I hope I will be joining you in a year. My daughter has one year left in her PharmD program. Four years ago she was majoring in biology, looked around and realized the medical field offered money and job security and chose pharmacy with an eye on doing hospital critical care pharmacy. It’s been a long six years counting her undergraduate time, but the end is in sight and there are jobs and they pay very well.
On the other hand, a young man my daughter went to school with graduated two years ago with a degree in Czech languages and studies and his wife has a degree in theater arts. She is now a secretary at the local university and he is an attendance clerk at our high school. What were they thinking?
Is your daughter paying for her own school? I ask, because it does matter, and not all students can afford 6 years of college for a Pharm D, which was a solid choice for her, by the way.
Hope to have you among the ranks!
Part of the problem is that it seems that the schools are geared toward pushing our kids into college, even when we all know that college (like my time in the Corps) is not for everyone.
I know.....I’m “old Corps”...err....old school.....did some college, but decided that I loved working with cars! Wouldn’t trade my career path for nothing!
I have a good friend like this. I feel very badly for her as she has a teaching degree from an online university. There are absolutely NO teaching jobs to be had, and she’s also getting into her 50’s.
I went back to school to be a nurse. Granted, it’s not the most glamorous job in the world, but I can get a job. I mention it to a lot of people and they always say, “Oh, I could NEVER do that ...too afraid of blood, etc etc ...” You have to do what is marketable, folks.
I remember when my oldest daughter was at the stage of looking for a college to go to. We went to an open house for Northwestern University. (I knew it was ungodly expensive, but, didn't know that they give out about zero grants/scholarships.) During the presentation they had a short film with graduates from Northwestern. They talked a lot about "finding yourself" and touchy feeley junk like that. At the end of the film they had a little bio about each of the students and what they were doing. One was a park ranger, one was a camp counselor --- at the time you would be paying 80-100,000 for a bachelor's degree from that place.
So, my daughter was enamored of it and said to me, "I coud find myself". I told her if she had no idea what she wanted to do, she could "find herself" while attending a state college.
Kids fall for that kind of propaganda from the college agents; but, the parents really shouldn't. (BTW, she now works at Northwestern University.)