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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone knows it should be like a Cast system.

-A students get into the best universities & become our doctors/lawyers/scientists/engineers
-B students get into good universities & become our upper management types
-C students can submit to universities for a lottery type system & become the office drone types
-D students get to learn a trade 
-F students are our fast food workers and the like

But in all seriousness, we need to go back to the emphasis that not every job requires a college degree.  You do not need a degree to be a sales person or general office type jobs.  I'm sorry, but you just don't.  Those are jobs that can be learned and mastered by anyone with a willingness to learn and a brain.

I was made fun of my entire life because my dad owns as portable toilet company.  I even had some teachers who treated me less than because of his job and the fact that I lived out in the country.  My only friends were my cousins in elementary through all of middle school.  It wasn't until Christmas break of my freshmen year in high school that people started really questioning my life.  This was the result of happenstance... one of the most popular girls in my grade ended up on the same Caribbean cruise as me and my family over the holidays.  She told others she'd seen me and they started asking questions like how could my poor family afford that, did I win a charity auction, was it a Make a Wish type deal, etc.  When they found out we did a cruise every Christmas break, the questions turned to where I lived exactly and what my house looked like and could they come over to study.  They literally had no idea that yes, while I lived outside of town in the country, I lived on a huge property in a huge house that had an arcade, heated pool, and an entire converted barn that was my own space full of video games and the hottest gizmos and gadgets.  My parents were (and still are) loaded from my dad's little ol' company of portable toilets.  Even now, if my dad meets someone new and tells them what he did, they make a face and just assume he's an idiot.  [/quote]

This is so weird. Where was this? It doesn’t matter what you make, if you own a successful business, you likely have wealth. I’m astonished that no one in this town could put 2 and 2 together. [/quote]

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