Advice for academically strong, but directionless daughter

CollegeMamb0
Sat, 04 Jul 2020 08:00:43 +0000

Encourage her to read ‘The 100 Year Life’ by Scott and Gratton.

The most important skills we need now are: creativity, adaptability, innovation and resiliency. The ability to make the all important pivot. The ability to bring different sets of skills together in ways that haven’t before. The ability to ride out the storm. You can learn these skills whether you study accountancy or history or nursing or comp sci or women’s studies.

For immediate use, I would ensure she has a degree of quantitative literacy and aptitude, as well as being able to write well, think critically and communicate verbally. Plus experience of getting her hands dirty in a job/ internship. Again, you can learn these skills through a combination of different classes and majors.

There is a poster @Lindagaf whose daughter majored in Psychology but who has built an extensive background in stats. She is going to work for a manufacturing company. Will she be there forever? Is it glamorous? Unlikely! But it is a great way to start and learn (and ride out the coming storm) and maybe then pivot or move to something else.