[quote=flyer]AN, I completely agree with your comment to the other poster. That’s exactly the way my wife and I felt when we were raising our children.
Whatever “pond” you’re in, my wife and I had parents who were all about living your dreams–not just getting “a job”–and we’ve tried to pass that same philosophy along to our children. We have two who have made it to that point in life, and one to go![/quote]
I’m curious what your take is here, flyer. The article you posted is about the large number of college grads who can’t get jobs in their chosen (often dream) fields, and the article concludes by saying,
“Perhaps your investment in education should go toward learning things you can earn a living at, with intellectual stimulation coming later, when you can afford the indulgence. Otherwise, college can turn out to be a mighty expensive hobby.”
Yet you have encouraged your children to live their dreams rather than focus on getting a job. Clearly you’ve had fantastic success there. (For which you get, from me, congratulations, esteem, and a desire to learn from you). So I’m curious how you would’ve handled it if your kids dreams didn’t involve lucrative, in-demand fields such as business and medicine? What if they wanted to be writers and actors and painters? What if they chased those dreams and ended up barely (or not at all) able to support themselves?
