People getting crap jobs from HYPS?

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Anonymous wrote:In what way is he “highly credentialed”?

+1 maybe he barely passed the easiest courses possible? Maybe he did great and needs a mental health break? Who are you to judge an individual's choices, OP?

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Anonymous wrote:In what way is he “highly credentialed”?

+1 maybe he barely passed the easiest courses possible? Maybe he did great and needs a mental health break? Who are you to judge an individual's choices, OP?

Maybe op feels stuck on the hamster wheel and is jealous that this kid gets to spend a year kayaking instead being a corporate drone like her?

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Yale grad here. Lots of kids I graduated with did jobs like this for a year or two. We were all tired as hell after years of grinding it out for academic accolades. We are all in our 30s now and I can’t see a blanket difference between the people who took a break and those who didn’t. Every one of us has an advanced degree and a professional job, is married, and most have kids. We all became functioning adults who support ourselves. Life is not a race.

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Anonymous wrote:Yale grad here. Lots of kids I graduated with did jobs like this for a year or two. We were all tired as hell after years of grinding it out for academic accolades. We are all in our 30s now and I can’t see a blanket difference between the people who took a break and those who didn’t. Every one of us has an advanced degree and a professional job, is married, and most have kids. We all became functioning adults who support ourselves. Life is not a race.

+1 but Harvard grad here.

I'm jealous and wish I'd done something like this when I was young and energetic and didn't have all the responsibilities I have now!

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Kayaking for a year sounds like heaven. I wish I had something like backpacking around the world after college instead of rushing headfirst into work.

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It is odd. At elite schools, kids majoring in humanities got 5’s on AP Calc BC and could’ve easily been math majors if they had chosen to attend a lesser-ranked school.

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Anonymous wrote:This is fun and enjoyable and like a gap year. I know a kid who graduated from one of these schools, worked as a backwoods hiking guide for a year, then joined a top tier investment bank.

There’s no way this is real. Top tier IB jobs go out to summer analysts, so they start right after they graduate.

No, they don’t. Your middle class roots are showing. Most IB jobs go to kids with connections.

The kids with connections ARE the summer analysts, dummy.

No, you are the dummy. Kids with true connections do not need to work as summer analysts before getting offers... I have a good friend with a lot of connections who went to Harvard with me. He took off a couple years to teach English abroad and then came back and joined a top tier consulting firm. I have friends who did similar at investment banks.

And I'm a pretty recent grad so this isn't a back in the day thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do highly credentialed HYPS grads accept crap jobs after graduation?

My neighbor’s son is a senior at a HYPS right now, and she told me that her son just accepted a job offer after graduation. When I asked her what the job is, she told me that her son is moving to Oregon to be a full-time whitewater kayaking instructor.

I was bewildered by this. With a math degree from HYPS, I would assume he’d get a great job offer at graduation.

Oh and for the record, it’s not like he is a rich kid who can rely on his parents — he is solidly middle class and went to his college on a good amount of financial aid.

thinking back to my younger years, he is doing exactly the right thing!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do highly credentialed HYPS grads accept crap jobs after graduation?

My neighbor’s son is a senior at a HYPS right now, and she told me that her son just accepted a job offer after graduation. When I asked her what the job is, she told me that her son is moving to Oregon to be a full-time whitewater kayaking instructor.

I was bewildered by this. With a math degree from HYPS, I would assume he’d get a great job offer at graduation.

Oh and for the record, it’s not like he is a rich kid who can rely on his parents — he is solidly middle class and went to his college on a good amount of financial aid.

Do you know his mental or physical health history? May be he needs it.

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Anonymous wrote:This is fun and enjoyable and like a gap year. I know a kid who graduated from one of these schools, worked as a backwoods hiking guide for a year, then joined a top tier investment bank.

There’s no way this is real. Top tier IB jobs go out to summer analysts, so they start right after they graduate.

No, they don’t. Your middle class roots are showing. Most IB jobs go to kids with connections.

The kids with connections ARE the summer analysts, dummy.

No, you are the dummy. Kids with true connections do not need to work as summer analysts before getting offers... I have a good friend with a lot of connections who went to Harvard with me. He took off a couple years to teach English abroad and then came back and joined a top tier consulting firm. I have friends who did similar at investment banks.

And I'm a pretty recent grad so this isn't a back in the day thing.

Harvard grade don’t want to be investment bankers anymore.

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Every year we hear of people who do year abroad teaching english, mostly its an escape from adulthood. My BFF's daughter went to Europe because she didn't get into grad schools she preferred nor any exciting job offers, which most of her ivy friends were getting so she decided to take an year off and get away from everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:This is fun and enjoyable and like a gap year. I know a kid who graduated from one of these schools, worked as a backwoods hiking guide for a year, then joined a top tier investment bank.

There’s no way this is real. Top tier IB jobs go out to summer analysts, so they start right after they graduate.

No, they don’t. Your middle class roots are showing. Most IB jobs go to kids with connections.

The kids with connections ARE the summer analysts, dummy.

No, you are the dummy. Kids with true connections do not need to work as summer analysts before getting offers... I have a good friend with a lot of connections who went to Harvard with me. He took off a couple years to teach English abroad and then came back and joined a top tier consulting firm. I have friends who did similar at investment banks.

And I'm a pretty recent grad so this isn't a back in the day thing.

Harvard grade don’t want to be investment bankers anymore.

This^. None of DS's Ivy friends wanted to join finance bros because they are seen as douche bags and work isn't purposeful.

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Anonymous wrote:Kayaking for a year sounds like heaven. I wish I had something like backpacking around the world after college instead of rushing headfirst into work.

Only people who did college on financial aid or from trust fund money can afford such privileges, others have to earn decent money and build careers to earn $$$$$$ to afford living and repay loans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do highly credentialed HYPS grads accept crap jobs after graduation?

My neighbor’s son is a senior at a HYPS right now, and she told me that her son just accepted a job offer after graduation. When I asked her what the job is, she told me that her son is moving to Oregon to be a full-time whitewater kayaking instructor.

I was bewildered by this. With a math degree from HYPS, I would assume he’d get a great job offer at graduation.

Oh and for the record, it’s not like he is a rich kid who can rely on his parents — he is solidly middle class and went to his college on a good amount of financial aid.

Maybe he's burnt out or not into making money? I went to Dartmouth and had a friend who was a mountain guide at a therapeutic program for kids for like three years and then applied to a bunch of social work schools and got shut out from most of them (no idea why given her background) and ultimately ended up getting into a more prestigious MPA program and going back and working in a service-oriented role a a nonprofit. One of my other good friends from Dartmouth is a teacher at a public school outside of Boston. These jobs are by no means by sh*tty, but they are not considered prestigious and these friends are not ambitious when it comes to their careers. Even though it may seem paradoxical, not everyone who graduates from a prestigious school is ambitious when it comes to their career.

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Anonymous wrote:Kayaking for a year sounds like heaven. I wish I had something like backpacking around the world after college instead of rushing headfirst into work.

Only people from trust fund money can afford such privileges, others have to earn decent money and build careers to earn $$$$$$ to afford living and repay loans.