Rewards and Challenges

The most rewarding thing for a guidance counselor would probably be to graduate all the students that they come in contact with and also get them in to college followed by a job that they love. I'm sure students return to thank their counselors all the time. I think the most challeging thing for a GC to do would be to help a student that didn't take school seriously early on. Students tend to realize their gifts too late. It would frustrate me if it was my job to keep kids on track that do not want to be kept on track. Then if you add no parent support, I'm sure a counselors task could get difficult.