From what I can tell, there are two types of parents out there when it comes to advising and strategizing with their kids when it comes to selecting a major in college and finding something to do with your life after that.
First, you have the “follow your passion” camp.
What this camp gets right is that what you do in class, and what you do for a living, will occupy half of conscious life. It becomes as much who you are as what you do in those eight hours of free time. It is a paramount decision because the seeds of building a fortune start with selling your time as labor for money. From there, it’s all about creating a difference between what you spend, and what you earn. Unless you have rapid career and salary advancement to a point to a point that you start getting stock grants … Read the rest of this article!