How do I prepare my daughter to be motivated for grad school and gain employment?
Are you really the parent?
Why does this daughter need grad school? Many students get jobs after undergrad school without an advanced degree.
How can you “motivate” her…
- If she is living in your house, give her 6 weeks of free rent, then start charging her rent.
- You can make a condition of her living in your home that she have a job...any Job.
- Make it clear that she must earn money for any discretionary spending.
- She needs to be responsible for family chores if she is living with you. No exceptions.
What does she think she should be doing now? Sitting around and doing nothing?
And more questions…
- What was your daughter’s undergrad major?
- Has she been working during college...and if not...why?
- What are her interests?
- Are there job opportunities near your home or does she have to relocate. Is she willing to move to wherever it takes to get a job?
- What would she enroll in grad school for? It’s too late to apply for grad school for fall 2019 now. Were you thinking she could apply and go now?
- How will grad school be funded?
It would be nice if you could answer some of these questions…you will get better help.
Posting on this forum, and then never answering any questions (like you did on your graduation party thread) really isn’t going to get you good answers.
She’s had a major in biomedical engineering. Yes, she worked during college. She works at a pharmacy. Her interests are science, art and photography. I will let her do everything she can.
She has a job right now. If she wants a different one, then she can look for a different one. If she specifically wants a biomedical engineering job, then she needs to get help from her university’s career center for her job hunt.
Is she still working at the pharmacy?
Did she graduate in the spring? It’s only early July. The search for the first job can take a little time, even for someone with an engineering degree. I’d give her a little more time to find something before suggesting grad school. And even then, I wouldn’t suggest grad school to anyone who wasn’t very certain of his or her desired career path.
Two separate questions.
One, should she even consider grad school in her major?
Two- should she find a job in her major?
It is possible she isn’t as enamored of biomed eng as she thought she would be. Perhaps she would be willing to have a conversation with you about her plans for her future. Be sure to be nonthreatening (good luck navigating that parent-child deal- don’t ask me how to do it…).
why grad school? for what purpose? Engineering or change fields? what type of grad school (MBA, STEM? which level (MS, PhD)?
(Engineers are in demand, what job is she seeking that she needs another degree?)
Bioengineering often does require an advanced degree to get a job. Even very entry level positions can require a masters.
Your daughter can’t go to grad school in September of this year. Those applications were due a LONG time ago.
Let her ponder this…and decide if a masters is what she wants…and if so…in what.
She will need to do something now anyway…so working is a good idea.
What happened to the graduation party for the “degree that meant nothing”?? Biomedical engineering is a meaningless degree? Really? Ouch.