>One good reason is that the people that typically give this type of advice (counselors and career advisors) are in such banal careers themselves It might be p

>One good reason is that the people that typically give this type of advice (counselors and career advisors) are in such banal careers themselves It might be poorly compensated but it's not a banal career. A good career advisor has the potential to make a huge difference in people's lives, more even than a teacher. As someone who grew up in a rural lower-class family (where good career advice was scarce), I'd have saved a couple mostly wasted years of my life if I'd met a good career advisor in high school.