You will need time as well as life and work experiences before you are ready for the next stage of career decision making. A liberal arts education provides the opportunity to develop a number of functional or transferable skills, that is, skills that can be transferred to other settings and situations. Many of these skills have the potential to be useful in a variety of work settings. Identifying some of your transferable skills can be useful in continuing to plan your formal and informal education, making career decisions, as well as writing your resume and discussing your education with potential employers. Consider the following questions using the list of skills.
Parents have all the answers.
It is possible to help sons and daughters discover the questions that lead to the answers, to give them a way to self determine. A job that pays well will make you happy. We want them to be financially secure but we don't want them to be so security conscious that they flee from their hearts' desires. Other people are in charge. Acknowledging that we determine our own futures is a profound turning point.