<p>Here’s an idea out of left field. Suppose you asked her for a ten-minute appointment because you’re curious about the job of a guidance counselor. Kids often think about jobs and careers during h.s.</p>
<p>Ask her questions about her job, her challenges, her satisfactions. If you are a kind, intelligent person, that will come through by the way you listen to her answers. Go in with a few written questions, like a news reporter would, but be ready also to just discuss things that come up. She might remember you. Later, as academic topics arise, you’ll have already met her once.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s wasting much of her time (just l0 minutes).</p>
<p>My S’s GC told me that she liked him because of all the students in the big public h.s., when he passed her in the hall he’d say something sympathetic to her with a smile, like, how’s your day going taking care of half the school?</p>
<p>But only attempt this l0 minute interview idea if you really ARE mildly curious about what her job is all about.</p>
<p>It could also be during a “career” assignment if you get any of those in your school.</p>