Comments on: More Thoughts on Funding A Child’s College Education in Full http://www.bloggingawaydebt.com/2006/05/more-thoughts-on-funding-a-childs-college-education-in-full/ Our Journey to a Debt-Free Life Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:10:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tricia http://www.bloggingawaydebt.com/2006/05/more-thoughts-on-funding-a-childs-college-education-in-full/comment-page-1/#comment-195 Tricia Mon, 15 May 2006 03:34:00 +0000 http://www.bloggingawaydebt.com/?p=167#comment-195 Wow - that's a great program that you are doing! I wish they had something like that at my high school 11 years ago. Rather, what we had were a multitude of tests (academic) and almost all of them said I was fitted for an engineering career. I think I started believing that for a while, even though I knew deep down it wasn't the career for me. But everyone was pushing me towards it. It would have been great if there was more attention given to interests versus aptitiude. Oddly enough, I ended up going to the college with the engineering degree. But I soon switched to a less technical field a few quarters later. Glad you enjoy my blog! Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment :) Wow – that’s a great program that you are doing! I wish they had something like that at my high school 11 years ago. Rather, what we had were a multitude of tests (academic) and almost all of them said I was fitted for an engineering career.

I think I started believing that for a while, even though I knew deep down it wasn’t the career for me. But everyone was pushing me towards it. It would have been great if there was more attention given to interests versus aptitiude. Oddly enough, I ended up going to the college with the engineering degree. But I soon switched to a less technical field a few quarters later.

Glad you enjoy my blog! Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment :)

]]> By: Carol http://www.bloggingawaydebt.com/2006/05/more-thoughts-on-funding-a-childs-college-education-in-full/comment-page-1/#comment-194 Carol Sun, 14 May 2006 23:09:00 +0000 http://www.bloggingawaydebt.com/?p=167#comment-194 I've been enjoying your blog, and liked this one a lot, especially this: I didn't mention it in the other post, but I had NO CLUE what I wanted to do with my life when I was 18. I applied to three different colleges and for each one a different major (criminal justice, music and mechanical engineering - if that isn't a smorgasboard of majors - tell me what is! - LOL). I have some concern for "lost" teenagers like yourself and so I taught a class on Career Exploration to a group of homeschooled kids last year. It was pretty popular; 20 kids signed up which is HUGE for a homeschool class. Crosswalk.com picked up an article I wrote about the class again telling me that parents want to help direct their kids. There are a lot more personality surveys and resources to help kids narrow their search these days. But right now my 15yo daughter sounds like you were. Her choices are paino, pharmacy, accounting or preschool teacher. At least she has three years to decide and we're being pretty deliberate about giving her experiences to try out different occupations. Keep up the posts. They're so interesting! I’ve been enjoying your blog, and liked this one a lot, especially this:

I didn’t mention it in the other post, but I had NO CLUE what I wanted to do with my life when I was 18. I applied to three different colleges and for each one a different major (criminal justice, music and mechanical engineering – if that isn’t a smorgasboard of majors – tell me what is! – LOL).

I have some concern for “lost” teenagers like yourself and so I taught a class on Career Exploration to a group of homeschooled kids last year. It was pretty popular; 20 kids signed up which is HUGE for a homeschool class. Crosswalk.com picked up an article I wrote about the class again telling me that parents want to help direct their kids. There are a lot more personality surveys and resources to help kids narrow their search these days. But right now my 15yo daughter sounds like you were. Her choices are paino, pharmacy, accounting or preschool teacher. At least she has three years to decide and we’re being pretty deliberate about giving her experiences to try out different occupations.

Keep up the posts. They’re so interesting!

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