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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My nephew graduated from an Ivy last year with a communication degree and no job.  He spent six months after graduation working at an exclusive golf country club.  He happened to be a very good golfer and got noticed by corporate senior management who are members at the club.  He got to play with them whenever they were short handed.  They found out that he graduated from Ivy so one of the COO gave him a job at the Fortune 500 company.  He was recently promoted to Senior Director and he is making around 285K/yr.  The moral of the story is to hustle and get close to important people.  Good things will happen.  A degree from Ivy will get people attention.[/quote]

I would express the moral of this story in a slightly different manner. The moral of the story is to learn to play golf well & connect with other, older golfers.

However, I do find it incredible that you nephew is making $285,000 a year after working in a real job for just about 6 months.[/quote]

Exactly.  Golf allows you the opportunity to meet older golfers who can give you jobs.  Golf in itself requires a lot of hard work to get good at it and important people who play golf recognize this. The key is to take advantage of the situation when it is presented to you.  Most people are not capable of doing that.  Btw, there are quite a few people at my workplace who are making 250K one year after graduation with one person making 290K after 18 months after graduation so it is possible.[/quote]
And this is why things are still stacked against women. The good ol' boys golf buddies usually don't include women, especially nonwhite women.[/quote]

The moral of the story is look a certain way and you will get opportunities in life that others don’t.  I’m sure the valets parking cars at the golf club didn’t get offers from these bigwigs.

This has nothing to do with hard work and hustle.  [/quote]

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