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What an odd thing for a career advisor to tell a 16 year-old.
by lylejohnson 16y ago
What an odd thing for a career advisor to tell a 16 year-old.
- inetsee 16y agoMy high school adviser told me I'd never get into UCSD. Not only did I get in, but I graduated with honors. Never listen to people who tell you what you can't do.
- JazzDad 16y ago"Those who can do, those who can't teach" - those who have no clue become guidance counselors. My father was a psychologist who had a knack for analysis. One of his Masters projects was to do competency ranking of psychologists based on certain attributes. When he ran it through the people in his program most of the "worst" ended up going on to be school career advisors. He was pretty active in the community after graduation and unfortunately all the "horror stories" came from people who had done poorly on the assessment.
- guynamedloren 16y agoMy high school guidance counselor asked me why I was even bothering applying to engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She almost refused to send my transcript. I was in all honors/AP classes with a near 4.0 gpa at the time. I just graduated from the enterprise systems engineering program at UIUC - early.