(15 Aug 2013, 12:55 pm)Chris wrote I suspect we had the same careers advisor. Mine went something like this:

"So then Chris, what do you see yourself doing when you leave School?"

Me: "I would like to be a bus driver...."

Advisor: "That's not a career, you don't want to do that"

Me: "A truck driver. Or maybe a train driver."

Advisor: "Hmmm. I can see a pattern here. How about an electrician?"

I don't think it's right that careers advisors are discouraging teens from pursuing their dreams, if their dream is to be x, y or z job and it doesn't pay amazingly...