Advice for my 17 year old daughter with over 100 credits done... Computer/IT Focused.

[rachel83az]

Web App Dev and Pen Testing. We also have a couple of close family friends that make their income (well into 6 digits per year) as bug bounty hunters.

Don't need a degree in this, especially as a bug bounty hunter. It may or may not help.

Her focus has been on Software Engineering, Web Development

A strong portfolio will help her here more than a ton of degrees would. So many degrees takes away from the time she could be using to build her portfolio.

Law would benefit in that line of work, and she has already spoken to several law firms that said they look to contract people with those skill sets and have a hard time finding them.

Law is a different beast entirely and I'm not qualified to speak here.

Education because her high school has given so much to her and opened so many doors above and beyond what they were required to do, she has a secret seeded passion for wanting to part-time teach and give back. I don't see it happening, but she has been nonstop so far, and at this point, I'm just trying to research and help her the best I can.

Unless Ohio is very different, I don't think you need an education degree to teach part-time. If she agrees to teach STEM in a low-income school, though, she might get most/all of her education paid for.

Having so many degrees in such a short period of time, in such diverse fields, may actually hurt her future employment prospects.

I think what she wants to do is nicely for the degrees and certifications, but IDK... What are your thoughts? How could it hurt?

Thank you a ton for your feedback, questions, and thoughts!

It can hurt because it looks to many not like "oh, wow, she's an overachiever who works hard!" but, instead, "oh, wow, those colleges/universites must suck" OR "she must have cheated in her classes" OR "how much could she possibly know if she hasn't focused her studies on one field?". Potentially, even "well, we can't hire her because she won't stay long anyway; she gets bored too easily and will just go into another field". 

It'd be different if she were, say, 37 instead of 17 and had accumulated many degrees over a few decades. Unfortunately, there are still a lot of prejudices in our society and she's "too smart" for a lot of people.