Dear Amy: My 27-year-old daughter, “Zoey,” was just laid off from her IT job out west and now she would like to pursue her long-cherished dream of becoming a comedy writer/performer on stage. She has no debt, money in the bank and a good start on her 401(k). She performed when she was in school, and the director thought she was quite talented at the time (and is quite the personality now), but she didn’t think seriously of going into comedy then. Zoey went the “safe” route and got a computer programming degree and has excelled at everything she has tried.