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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no doubt Ivy League degrees help people get MBB and similar jobs. We all know who those "prestigious firms" hire and why.

The notion though that Ivy League schools actually confer abilities that other environments cannot, however, is pure conjecture. In my workplace being competitive is not a desirable trait.[/quote]

I don’t understand that comment.

Literally all the people at the top of their area are competitive.  Professors, medical labs/researchers, doctors, musicians, actors, NPO founders…literally everything …you read or watch interviews and they talk about their competitive drive.[/quote]

Saying literally multiple times doesn’t make your opinion literally true. Just FYI.[/quote]

Except it’s not an opinion dipshit.  There is no line of work or career or workplace that doesn’t value competitiveness.[/quote]

Off the top of my head, healthcare workers, research scientists, and teachers are jobs that don't value competitiveness.[/quote]

This is nuts…a relative is a top research scientist and one of the most competitive people you will ever meet.  Tops in her field and she knows how hard it is to get research dollars…has zero problem ousting junior researchers who can’t “cut it” because hustling and competing for grants is a tough business.  It’s a problem because junior researchers don’t really understand the career path they have chosen many times.
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That's not competitiveness. That's just being bad at your job and choosing the wrong career path. I wouldn't consider hustling for grants to fall under the definition of "competitiveness" that the PP was referring to, either.

DCUM really is dumber than I thought.[/quote]

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