Why don’t college students understand that they’re supposed to preserve optionality?

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Anonymous wrote:I would rather pluck my eyelashes out one by one than work in investment banking or management consulting.



Are you a 22 year-old? That’s the only way I can justify such an immature response. Most adults in the working world would kill for an opportunity to work at Mckinsey or Goldman for their early twenties.


NP. I’m 50 with a successful career and I can’t imagine anything worse than working for one of the Big 4 or similar types of consulting firm. It is soul sucking work that adds little value.


Must’ve been nice to have been born with a silver spoon!

Most 22 year olds would jump at the chance to make $90k+.


People are telling you that you are wrong. Some 22 year olds would of course jump at the chance to make $90K in a consulting company. Some 22 year olds would absolutely not take that job. You are highly myopic if you think this is the desire of every 22 year old.


OP here. The point of college is upward mobility. Nearly any 22 year old without rich parents would be happy to work at a Big 4 or in consulting or banking. Full stop.


Now I see where you went wrong in your OP. The point of college is to get an education.


Fully agree. And there are thousands of ways to make a living. So myopic to think everyone should want to be a management consultant. I have friends that became successful script-writers, bloggers, wine-merchants and academics. And they were far happier, for the most part, that those that stayed on the conveyor belt to become accountants and corporate lawyers.


OP here. You’re flat-out wrong, or I’m assuming these friends of yours either married rich or have trust funds.

I mean seriously, scriptwriting? Blogging? Academia? These are all fields that are dominated by trust fund babies, and anyone who doesn’t have a trust fund or a wealthy spouse should avoid touching these fields with a ten-foot pole.


NP. The only people I know in these fields are not trust fund babies at all. Quite the reverse actually. One is the daughter of a factory manager and an academic. Another is the daughter of a blue collar worker and an ER nurse. Actually likewise her brother. Another is the child of an academic and a SAHM. Another is the child of a single mom who worked multiple odd jobs to support herself and her kid — no “career” to speak of. All of them are managing their adult lives just fine and all of them would be horrified at the suggestion they would be happier working for management consulting companies/if they had wasted their 20s doing so.

What’s right for you, OP, is not right for everyone.


Oh and none of the friends listed are married yet. One just bought a house and one is married a WMATA employee this summer.


Now I know you’re lying. There’s no way you can buy a house in this day and age on an academic/publishing/journalism/scriptwriter’s salary barring immense generational wealth.
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Anonymous wrote:I would rather pluck my eyelashes out one by one than work in investment banking or management consulting.



Are you a 22 year-old? That’s the only way I can justify such an immature response. Most adults in the working world would kill for an opportunity to work at Mckinsey or Goldman for their early twenties.


NP. I’m 50 with a successful career and I can’t imagine anything worse than working for one of the Big 4 or similar types of consulting firm. It is soul sucking work that adds little value.


Must’ve been nice to have been born with a silver spoon!

Most 22 year olds would jump at the chance to make $90k+.


People are telling you that you are wrong. Some 22 year olds would of course jump at the chance to make $90K in a consulting company. Some 22 year olds would absolutely not take that job. You are highly myopic if you think this is the desire of every 22 year old.


OP here. The point of college is upward mobility. Nearly any 22 year old without rich parents would be happy to work at a Big 4 or in consulting or banking. Full stop.


Now I see where you went wrong in your OP. The point of college is to get an education.


Fully agree. And there are thousands of ways to make a living. So myopic to think everyone should want to be a management consultant. I have friends that became successful script-writers, bloggers, wine-merchants and academics. And they were far happier, for the most part, that those that stayed on the conveyor belt to become accountants and corporate lawyers.


OP here. You’re flat-out wrong, or I’m assuming these friends of yours either married rich or have trust funds.

I mean seriously, scriptwriting? Blogging? Academia? These are all fields that are dominated by trust fund babies, and anyone who doesn’t have a trust fund or a wealthy spouse should avoid touching these fields with a ten-foot pole.


NP. The only people I know in these fields are not trust fund babies at all. Quite the reverse actually. One is the daughter of a factory manager and an academic. Another is the daughter of a blue collar worker and an ER nurse. Actually likewise her brother. Another is the child of an academic and a SAHM. Another is the child of a single mom who worked multiple odd jobs to support herself and her kid — no “career” to speak of. All of them are managing their adult lives just fine and all of them would be horrified at the suggestion they would be happier working for management consulting companies/if they had wasted their 20s doing so.

What’s right for you, OP, is not right for everyone.


Oh and none of the friends listed are married yet. One just bought a house and one is married a WMATA employee this summer.


Now I know you’re lying. There’s no way you can buy a house in this day and age on an academic/publishing/journalism/scriptwriter’s salary barring immense generational wealth.


My friend who bought her house is a carpenter and theatre technician. She’s been saving for years and works on 3-5 movies or tv shows every year. She makes as much or more than I do (white collar job in DC) on average, admittedly by working 12-14 hour days when she’s working on a film. She bought a big fixer upper in the suburbs/exurbs that she’ll do a lot of the fixing up on herself because she’s a very talented builder/artist/carpenter/welder. I’m not trying to say it’s an EASY job but your claim that only rich kids can do that is so much BS. And if she’d wasted her 20s in consulting she wouldn’t have the skills, decision-making power, and gig preference she currently has in the union/industry and would be a lot worse off.

Once more: Not everyone has the same goals and desires you do. There are multiple paths to a happy life.
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