Congrats to my daughter

[pmartin]

[quote="Jim at Gentex" post_id=10634 time=1620141233 user_id=83]

My youngest wanted to go into Psychology in High School (so did I in my college days). I asked her if she wanted whip cream with that? She was butt hurt for a while and maybe still hates me a little inside. She actually took some advice from me on education direction. Feel kinda guilty about it, but not sorry.

My youngest wanted to be a music major when she graduated high school.
I told her that jobs were scarce in that field, but Mom and I would support her decision if she went that route.

She decided to work and save up some money before starting college, so she didn't actually enroll until age 21.
By that time she decided to get her undergrad degree in Biology and work toward a specialty in Forensic Pathology.
What a difference from a music major!
I'm so glad she waited until age 21 because she would have been 3 years into a music degree that she didn't really want, nor would she likely find a job in that field.
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Happily your daughter didn't make the other choice. Also she was lucky enough or wise enough that life didn't make those choices for her.

My wife's parents scraped enough together to be able to send her to college. She essentially blew it off. By the time she knew what she might want to do with her life she had children and a failed marriage.

She might have gone on the dole and gotten support to pay for college like many of her friends, but that didn't sit well with her morals and upbringing so she got to work, occasionally taking a course or two towards a future degree. Even though she cumulatively got enough credits over the years to get a degree she was denied that accolade because the different colleges didn't carry forward her credits.

[Jim at Gentex]

She might have gone on the dole and gotten support to pay for college like many of her friends, but that didn't sit well with her morals and upbringing so she got to work, occasionally taking a course or two towards a future degree. Even though she cumulatively got enough credits over the years to get a degree she was denied that accolade because the different colleges didn't carry forward her credits.

Oh that stinks when one school won't recognize credits from a different school.  
Anyway, good for her to keep trying until she had enough credits.

Many schools now give 'life credits' to people who are in similar circumstances.
Many of us have learned more just by earning a living than we could learn in any classroom.  

[BrianP.]

Congrats Mike to you and your daughter. My daughter has her bachelors in psychology and masters in counseling and is doing well. She works with troubled teens and has worked her way to program director. She is happy in what she does and while she is not getting rich she is doing ok. It's not as bad as some think.