The writer is a general partner at Silicon Valley VC firm Benchmark and author of ‘Runnin’ Down a Dream: How to Thrive in a Career You Actually Love’
If you are the parent of a university student or high schooler, there is a good chance you are quietly panicking right now.
You were probably already uneasy about your child’s future — about whether their internships would turn into job offers and whether the subject they chose would pay off. So many of the professions that once felt like sure-thing pathways to financial security now look uncertain: law, medicine, finance, engineering. With the pace of technological change, even the safest careers seem vulnerable.