{"id":1689,"date":"2017-12-11T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2017-12-08T10:34:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T15:34:54","slug":"study-parental-occupations-can-affect-job-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/12\/11\/study-parental-occupations-can-affect-job-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Parental Occupations Can Affect Job Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1690\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1690\" style=\"width: 724px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1690\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Doctor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Doctor.jpg 724w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Doctor-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They say the apple doesn\u2019t fall from the tree. This is especially true when it comes to job choice.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/gss.norc.org\/\">General Social Survey<\/a>\u00a0data collected between 1994 and 2016, working sons are about 2.7 times as likely as the rest of the population to have the same job as their working fathers and about two times as likely to have the same job as their working mothers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Daughters are about 1.8 times as likely to have the same job as their mothers and 1.7 times as likely to have the same job as their fathers.<\/p>\n<p>The jobs most likely to be passed down include steelworker, legislator, baker, lawyer, and doctor, the study reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Auld family follows this trend closely. Elizabeth Auld is an emergency medicine resident and her father is an orthopedic surgeon, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2017\/11\/22\/upshot\/the-jobs-youre-most-likely-to-inherit-from-your-mother-and-father.html\"><em>New York Times<\/em> reported<\/a>. Her two sisters followed in their mother\u2019s footsteps by going to film school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was looking for a way to do meaningful work, and seeing how much satisfaction he derived from the job made me see it was a profession I should be considering,\u201d Auld told the <em>Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no surprise families have such a strong influence on job choice. They also influence college choice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/11\/22\/students-college-choices-often-match-those-of-older-siblings\/\">A 2015 study\u00a0<\/a>showed that one-fifth of younger siblings enroll at the same college as an older brother or sister.\u00a0Younger siblings are also 15 to 20 percentage points more likely to enroll in four-year colleges or highly selective institutions if an older sibling did.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ashley Dobson is NACAC\u2019s communications manager for content and social media. You can reach her at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:adobson@nacacnet.org\"><em>adobson@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say the apple doesn\u2019t fall from the tree. This is especially true when it comes to job choice. According to General Social Survey\u00a0data collected between 1994 and 2016, working sons are about 2.7 times as likely as the rest of the population to have the same job as their working fathers and about two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/12\/11\/study-parental-occupations-can-affect-job-choice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Study: Parental Occupations Can Affect Job Choice<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-exploration"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Ashley Dobson","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/ashley-dobson\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-rf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}