I helped my daughter get a job at my company after her college graduation. Sometimes, I regret it and wonder if I set her up for failure.

The author and her daughter worked at the same company.

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• When my daughter graduated from college, she was stuck working retail.
• I helped her get a job at the newspaper I worked at, and she's worked in local news ever since.
• As I grapple with low retirement funds, I wonder if I should have pushed her to something different.

My daughter was back in her childhood bedroom, a freshly printed college diploma somewhere in the pile of boxes she brought back from her university.