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Daughter urgently in need of direction

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Evangeline Tue 23-Jan-24 17:54:59

My 31 year old daughter is at a crossroads but doesn’t know which road to take- she doesn’t even know where the roads lead!
Highly educated and organised, excellent teacher with six years experience . Dreadfully missed by the school she left at Christmas due to the overwhelming demands of the profession. She has in mind to come a PA to a headteacher perhaps but is having no luck as she has no experience. I have been in touch with a careers advisor but my daughter will not engage with her. She is starting to become very disheartened and I don’t know what to advise her.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to where she could go from here?
Many thanks

Cid24 Thu 01-Feb-24 16:19:53

Oh and he rescued injured parrots in Belize too!

Evangeline Fri 02-Feb-24 18:54:19

An update on my daughter- she was successful at her intensive interview day for the post of PA to the headteacher of a large secondary school. She starts on Monday! She’s nervous but excited.
So, I’m back as early morning dog walker…
Thank you again to you all.

Callistemon21 Fri 02-Feb-24 21:23:20

Best wishes, hope she enjoys her new change of career!

NotSpaghetti Sat 03-Feb-24 00:04:38

Fingers crossed for her. flowers

luluaugust Sat 03-Feb-24 07:32:08

Good luck 🤞

woodenspoon Sat 03-Feb-24 11:06:06

Great news for her and for you. Hope all goes well for her.

Iam64 Sat 03-Feb-24 11:16:18

Great news and I hope it goes well for her.
I’m late to this thread but want to acknowledge how difficult it can be to support our adult children whilst letting them work things out. I hope yiu weren’t put off by the occasional snippy ‘back off’ comment.
One of my daughters did 8 years teaching in primary. She loved the teaching and the children but found the long hours once she had a second baby, impossible. She worked in a very deprived area so pressures there added to the ordinary work stresses
She re-trained and runs her own business. She’s happier and can work more easily around the needs of her children.
So many young people leave teaching, police, GP work because the hours are impossible to combine with family life.

Bella23 Sat 03-Feb-24 11:36:31

I think I would leave her to make her mind up. Only she knows why she is burned out, does she need time out from any job?
If she's worked abroad she can handle herself leave her to get on with it. Lots of people and I suspect most of us were managing a family and husband as well as a job at her age. Only she knows what she wants, worrying as it is to you.