Stick it out or transfer in the fall?

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Mon, 28 Oct 2019 19:44:58 +0000

Sometimes our kids are right. Sometimes both parents & kids are right, but the student knows what is better for them.

Sometimes it is hard to listen to what we don’t want to hear. Sometimes kids don’t share all of their concerns and feelings because they do not want to disappoint their parents.

I am going through this with one of my own. Same work but more prestige and more than double his current pay. He doesn’t want to work in biglaw. His former mentor took my advice & is now earning a very substantial income at that biglaw firm.

Even though I know that I am right, my kid knows that what is right for him at this time in his life is something different–even though it is the same work & same city & same building but at half the pay.

It is his life. I can present options. And listen. And make recommendations or offer advice. But it is his life & his decision.