06 December 2012

Reverse Psychologist

SEOP. Honestly I'm not even sure I know what those letters stand for . . . Student Education something Plan. Maybe Occupation? Anyway, Kiersten and I met with her counselor today to discuss her future.

That seems !crazy! close.

She took some kind of a pre-ACT test and her scores projected that she could get between a 29 and a 33 on the actual test. Her counselor tried to steer her in the direction of a medical career; she told him she likes writing and music. He didn't say anything, but I could tell he was thinking, "That won't make you a lot of money."

And who cares. No one wants to spend a lifetime doing something they don't enjoy just to get up the next day and do it all over again.

It looks like we've got some planning ahead of us.

And what about Erik? He's only a year behind.

Well, tonight Kiersten was attempting to use reverse psychology on Alex to get him to do something, and that led to a discussion of psychologists/psychiatrists.

Erik pipes up from the other room and in all seriousness tells us that he might want to be a reverse psychologist.

Now that would be an interesting field of work.

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