Careers for highly sensitive people (orchid child)

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What sort of careers would you suggest for a highly sensitive person?DD likes acting but that is a competitive world. She doesn’t want to do office jobs. I thinking working for herself would suit her best. Something like therapist, acupuncturist, etc. She is very creative, perspective, imaginative but doesn’t cope well in stressful environments.

A job as a therapist for someone who doesn't want a high stress job? I've heard it all now...

The 'kid' is in 6th form at a performing arts college.

Yes.

Or maybe she is an introvert, a bit shy and quiet, or self-conscious. Don't jump to labelling people as being neurodivergent just because they aren't outgoing and a happy-go-lucky confident extrovert.

@User765342 , can you diagnose everyone's child based on one (duplicated) OP?

I agree with the PPs suggesting public service, or similar.
I fit the description of highly sensitive persons, and I think the term orchid child is a lovely way to describe it. I think it would have been better for me to have paid employment that allowed me to ground and contain emotion, rather than heightening it.

What sort of public service are you suggesting, exactly?

Curious....and interested

Orchid child. Snorts.

Toughen her up fast. We're heading into a world requiring Lord of the Flies level hardness!

My child is very happy, chatty, loving and caring and yet she lost all her friendships. She is a treasure which the world rejects....

"orchid child" sounds like a load of bollocks.

(I'll get my coat)

She could do a book keeping or Will writing course and then set herself up to wfh.

I don't have to. I have private properties abroad and will create a business which she can lead. The world can go to the dumpster and be eaten by the flies, we are having an eternal Father Who loves us and cares for His precious daughters

This
and what the bloody hell is an “orchid child”
does she identify as a plant??

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37569400-the-orchid-and-the-dandelion
This is where the terminology OP is using comes from.
It's an interesting read, imo.

Riiight.

Psych theory. Dandelion children (bloom anywhere) vs orchid children (supposedly more creative but require a lot of emotional support). Fucking hate this theory because I think it proposes that “orchids” are more special and more requiring of care than “dandelion” children. The fact is everyone naturally hates stress and every child thrives with more support. If your child is biologically reactive to stress, you need to handle that medically and psychologically, instead of encouraging them to be an “orchid” 🙄

DH is a cactus.

OP, I suggest leave all your mental options open....hear what I am saying? Do not project anything on your child from now because you don't know God's plan for your daughter. Keep teaching her all kinds of skills and send her to various courses and hobbies if she is social. If not, keep going out as a family and do variety of things so she is seeing the world at large out there...

if you are foreign, especially EU don't forget that many smaller EU countries are up and coming all the while the west is going down the dumps

Public sector / civil service
strange contraction there sorry

Medically? LOL. Please, go and medicate yourselves my dears.

Did you forget which user name you were using?

Uhhhh… good luck? The world is about to discover that you can run cars without gas but you can’t grow the amount of food needed without fertilizer (the ACTUAL most important commodity with shipping stopped by the US aggression in Iran).

I already have a business which grows food abroad and fully set up running properties on Russian gaz. Good luck to you, dear brainwashed shallow westerner who has 0 imagination or survival skills

Why don’t you and your rejected treasure orchid pop off back there then? The apple certainly fell far from the tree if she’s your daughter