>> Follow advice, the job is hard and it's time consuming, you'll have late nights.
Uh, what I...my suggestion to any person would be make sure you love kids,
make sure you love people because you're going to be dealing with a lot of emotions,
you're going to be dealing with a lot of life situations that are outside of your control,
you're going to have to take some of that home with you as well and be able
to compartmentalized it and not put that on your families.
So my advice first and foremost love people, secondly you have to be willing to care
for someone else, so empathy is great part of our job.
If you lack empathy or the ability to feel for someone else for what they're going through,
this probably isn't the right career for you.
I would also say that you have to have a certain level of interpersonal skills,
you have to be able to create a safe for that person to want to tell you their story.
And then lastly, you have to be someone that's organize because in my profession
as I'm advising kids for college I have to know where they're at, where their grades are at,
what are right fit institutions for them,
so if I'm not organizing their lives how can I advise them accordingly
on what the right fit institutions.
So I would say those are probably the top 5 or 6 things
that someone should be prepared for in my profession.