I always wished my parents had zero'd in on my interests more as a kid instead of trying to nail down "what was best". I think the fact is you can find work doing basically anything adjacent to your own interests. I was told over an over I couldn't make money doing things I liked, or wouldn't like being something I was interested in like they knew anything about what I liked or would like.
Even if what they think sounds incredible or pedestrian to you, if they become good enough at it, they WILL be a success somehow. Maybe they want to be a pilot, maybe they don't become a pilot but work on planes as a mechanic, or drones, or it leads them down a direction they never thought. All industries have jobs surrounding them that we don't think about or see.
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