High ability people and career choices
From article There are choices! Making choices: a gifted case report, By Noks Nauta
Kitty did well in school, until seventh grade, when she began to experience academic and social problems; she retreated into herself and for a long time didn’t like going to school.
After graduation, Kitty started looking for a fulltime job. She saw an ad for a job as a graduate assistant to work on a dissertation that complemented her thesis, a very theoretical subject in numerical mathematics. Her parents were very enthusiastic; they thought it a good way to start her career.
Kitty herself was not really happy, though. She had nightmares, waking up in a sweat, feeling as if she were suffocating.
She wondered whether this job was what she wanted — or was it her parents choice?
Kitty started looking for jobs on the Internet, but found nothing of interest. She did find a notice about career counseling for gifted people, a career adventure, aimed at very intelligent people who had not learned how to make choices based on their feelings. That adventure appealed to her.
