<p>S, who is about to finish his second year of college, is home this weekend and since he was sitting there, I included him in a conversation with my soon-to-be-freshman D about majors/minors/etc.</p>
<p>BUT…even though I was in HR for years, I have no idea what employers really look for nor do I have any knowledge what-so-ever about anything anymore.</p>
<p>I wonder when my utter stupidity began…</p>
<p>we are just in a higher plane of existence…that’s all lol</p>
<p>we’ll never have ‘enough’ info about employers/hiring trends/what they look for…all we can do is to read up on materials as much as we can.
those who work in that specific field knows more than any of us ‘outside’ that major.</p>
<p>if anyone know less than you, that would be ME because i am a stay-home-mom who know more about gardening than current jobs trends !</p>
<p>I just figured that anyone who has teenagers automatically doesn’t know anything! I know that happened to me! 
I’m hoping that in a few years my knowledge and wisdom will magically reappear and be appreciated!</p>
<p>Ha! We are in the process of co-purchasing a condo with D1, who is also getting some positive feedback from some companies on hiring her (she would leave her current job). When I told her she needed to ask these companies (they are global companies) what their relocation policies are so that she (and we) don’t get stuck with a rental in Boston while she’s living who knows where, she said, “Mom, companies don’t just up and transfer people like they used to.”</p>
<p>And, I, good mom that I am, just kept my mouth shut and filed it away under one of those things that I’m obviously ‘naive’ about!</p>
<p>VAmom2015, I believe our intelligence returns when the last child turns 25 years old. So I have heard.</p>
<p>I heard your intelligence returns when your kids have their first kid!</p>
<p>i was going to say that…when one turns into a “grammy” & kid becomes ‘mommy’
that’s when they started telling their kid things & their kids go 'mom ! they don’t do that anymore" lol</p>
<p>[When</a> I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. by Mark Twain](<a href=“http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/1343]When”>http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/1343)</p>
<p>I love that quote…have repeated it a few times. : )</p>
<p>My parents and I just had a discussion about this yesterday. My mom has never had a career track job and has been a self-employed transcriptionist since the early 90’s. My father is a software developer, hasn’t had to look for work in 15 years, and has been self-employed the last ten. Neither of them went to college. Yet somehow they know everything there is to know about job hunting as a political science graduate in the current market-- mind you, they didnt know what i majored in until a week ago so it isn’t as though they’ve been researching the last four years. The latest gem is: “im sure you can make at least 55k a year. it’s okay to turn down jobs you’re overqualified for!” (the mystery of why they cosigned my 50k student loan is all cleared up now) and “health insurance doesn’t pay for anything anyway, so dont worry about benefits!” then on the way to my job interview on thursday my dad gave me a 45 minute lecture about all the ways the company was likely to try to screw me over.</p>
<p>id like to not be one of those kids who thinks their parents are completely stupid, but if i listened to everything they say i feel like id get slapped in the face with a massive reality check pretty quickly.</p>
<p>“health insurance doesn’t pay for anything anyway, so dont worry about benefits!” </p>
<p>Sorry – that is BAD advice!!!</p>
<p>I have also heard that I might get my smarts back when I become a grandparent…I just would rather that happen later rather than sooner!</p>
<p>I guess I will just have to become comfortable with my ignorance for a few years…it is bliss, ya’ know.</p>
<p>I know that my parents turned really dumb sometime during my junior high years, and got really smart again around the time D was born. I think we’re following the same pattern so far. Weird.</p>
<p>Emaheevul07, you can love and respect your parents for everything they’ve done in their lives and everything they’ve done for you, which is considerable. And then quietly turn to professionals for advice on job-hunting. I love my husband to pieces, but there is no way on earth I’d take his advice on certain topics – they’re just not his area of expertise!</p>
<p>When your kid learned to speak, or communicate with you. One of the favorite words of toddlers said frequently to parents is “no”. As they get older, it gets embellished with reasons and other vocabulary, some of it of a lower scale than the two letter no, despite double the letters.</p>
<p>I’ve been told how little I know about colleges by a certain high school senior who was hard put to name 10 colleges off the bat, and those he named all had big football/basketball teams.</p>
<p>I remember my dad sitting me down and telling me what to expect when getting hired out of school, including an expected salary range. When I got offers 30% above his high, with ridiculous benefits and these things called stock options he decided not to give advice anymore.</p>
<p>My eldest is graduating this June. My support extends to offering her room here at home as well as a nest egg in case she needs time to get on her feet, and offers to send resumes to anyone I know in her field. I’m not going to pretend I know anything about todays job market, or her chosen field because I don’t.</p>