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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thread has obviously moved on from OP’s specific situation to a general conversation about what information sharing looked like in the late 90s when it came to the job hunt.

I’m a millennial who will concede that the Internet wasn’t as helpful back in the late 90s. It was immensely helpful to me in the late aughts. But I haven’t seen anyone answer the question of whether or not they noticed tons of kids (juniors in the spring, seniors in the fall) interviewing en masse at all there big employers. Was OCR not a thing in the 90s? Even when I was in school, my top 10 university frequently boasted about how many of its students went to Goldman or JP Morgan, McKinsey or Bain, Harvard Law or Stanford Med. Were they not doing that either in the 90s? Genuinely curious. [/quote]

Those jobs are all pyramid schemes.  For everyone who starts around 10% are there 10 years later...[/quote]

PP. 100%. And even those that make partner don’t have a guarantee that they’ll have their jobs forever. You build the book or you get cut.

But! Those jobs are great credentials and springboards. I knew several kids who did banking > PE/hedge fund. Or people who did Big Law > in house at a well paying company. That’s why I’m always perplexed when people deride people for taking them because they “only care about money”. Money is a factor no doubt, but those jobs open amazing doors and opportunities. They create a high floor - that’s the real value in doing those jobs for a few years out of school. [/quote]

Yet another thing UMC student might know, but for someone who had first heard of investment banking AT THE JOB FAIR, probably not on their radar. The only banker I knew gave us a toaster for opening an account. [/quote]

PP. I was a MC kid of color who learned this freshman/sophomore year attending job fairs and speaking with other students. Again, in the aughts, but the information was there if you were willing to be proactive. (I heard kids in class talking about it and I wasn't even an econ major. That's how pervasive these jobs were at my UG.)

Perhaps it was different in the 90s. I definitely made my fair share of mistakes navigating this UMC world, but this was definitely knowable in the 2000s forward.[/quote]

+1 that’s what bugs me about the OP and the other people making excuses about not getting enough info and blaming it on not being UMC. The information was there if you were proactive enough to learn. And that’s a good life lesson, opportunities open to those who are hungry and take initiative. I came from a blue collar background, first gen to go to college, and freshman year on campus I was already tuned in to what job opportunities were there just by observing everyone else. I made my fair share of social mistakes but learnt quickly. [/quote]

I agree. The bootstraps are always there these people didn’t want it enough.  I mean growing up I thought having a ton of money made you a waste of a human being because you thought you were better than everyone else and you ended up looking down on others and taking advantage of them. I didn’t think that mentality was doing good in our world. Now I just wish I had decided to on a money making career path so I could make sure I could retire early and who cares about everyone else. It isn’t like I’m really helping anyway. You knew this earlier and are smarter and better than me so I should stop complaining. [/quote]

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