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What, if anything, is wrong with the following sentence?

Do you advise me to go to college or that I should get a job after high school?

a) run-on
b) misplaced part
c) Lacks parallel parts
d) Properly constructed sentence

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So, if we were to try to re-write this to be a correct sentence, let's see... how would we re-arrange?
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