As an adult, one of the main observations about education is how little it showed me about what jobs are out there. People pick degrees based on the advice of

As an adult, one of the main observations about education is how little it showed me about what jobs are out there. People pick degrees based on the advice of counselors who seem to know of 8 kinds of job, and half of them are not something you can advise a kid in a striving high school to follow (binman, factory worker, etc) . It's actually nuts how people will do an internship and then decide this is the thing they want to do. Or they get a visit from someone at school and now they're gonna be an author. If there's one thing we need in society, it's experiential information about jobs. For instance I've known many people who went into management consulting. None of them think it has any value. If I was a kid I'd want to know that. Accountants come across many types of business and are employable in many types of firms. The job is closer to a lawyer than many people expect, esp irl to tax. Your math degree is minimally useful. Recruiters talk to people all day and are paid in proportion to the salary of the placed person. Anyway those are just jobs that I don't do, and I know a tiny bit about them through contact with real world people. Kids need these contacts.