[jyl]

You're right, but I didn't want to overwhelm her with numbers, just to give her some data to reach conclusions about how employable a career needs to be to be called a career.

She thinks far more - about this but about many other things. also - than I did at her age. The risk in her case is probably overthinking rather than thoughtlessness.

Edit: The point I was trying to make to her was that quite a large number of potential fields are likely to make her "enough" money if her expectations are to start at the "modest" level. I want her to be thinking about what fields are employable, but not feel the need to seek the most lucrative ones.