Article by Nicholas Bate. How do you help your son/daughter get a decent career? What on earth do you say? Do more qualifications? Get some experience? Nicholas Bate, author of Do What you Want shares his advice. Any mother wants the best for her child. She wants him/her to be happy, to be healthy and to be wise. Central to that is of course a good career and a significant amount of our time and effort as a parent and increasingly large amounts of our income is spent on ensuring they have the best education to get the best career. So what went wrong? Why are there no guarantees any more? How come the rules got broken and what on Earth might mothers advise their children? It is useful to understand how the rules got broken. By ‘rules’ we mean those guidelines which have generally worked in the past such...