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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bucknell and Lehigh grads with high gpa’s get front office jobs if they target it and are singularly focused on getting it the moment they set foot on campus as freshman [/quote]

Business professor and Goldman Sachs alum here.  I have sent Ph.D. students to become professors at Colgate, University of South Carolina, and have a former colleague at Lehigh.  I was first-generation college and didn't even know what an investment banker or engineer was at age 17.  I can't relate to a teenager who is "singularly focused" on such a narrow field.

Typically, DCUM fails to discuss the quality of education in finance, business, or other majors.  Furthermore, DCUM thinks a finance offer at age 22 guarantees a successful career and happy life.  As long as your high school nincompoop gets into a school with the right "connections", your helicopter parenting is over, and you can retire.

[quote=Anonymous]My nephew just graduated from Lehigh with a job in finance. He was a business/computer sci major and had great internships and several offers on Wall st.[/quote]

Now you are just spoiling the DCUM narrative!  Your nephew went to a school known for engineering.  Then he learned about computers in addition to business.  In other words, he acquired skills.  He could be self-sufficient and work with data and software tools.  Good for him and his employer!

The DCUM attitude is immature and short-sighted.  You expect a kid to be singularly focused for 21 years.  How about letting the kid learn what he likes?  How about urging the kid to learn versatile math and computer skills?  Then the kid can do finance, business, science, engineering, or medicine.  If the kid becomes smart and skilled, then he can get a top one-year masters in the field of his choice.    Is it so terrible to start a career at age 23 instead of 22.?

Here is a thought.  Get CLEP and AP credit, and take an extra course each semester, or online during winter/summer breaks.  Then you can graduate in 3 years instead of 4.  DCUM never discusses saving a year of college, but everybody complains when I suggest getting a one-year masters degree after becoming more educated and mature about the career field.  The focus on schools with "connections" and "placement" is why I suspect y'all are raising a bunch of incompetent nincompoops who can't get a good education or job on their own merits.[/quote]

Agree.  So many parents on here obsessed with the fields they perceive as lucrative.  No imagination and no faith in their kids.  Let your kids figure it out!  Have faith that you have raised them to do that.

I’ve worked with your kids in finance cubicle-land.  They are h happy because they were pushed into a field they do not enjoy.  A recipe for burn out and unhappiness, but I guess if they find your retirement and they have a brag worthy job, you are happy at least.[/quote]

The value of working at GS or McK isn’t to come up the ranks in those fields — it’s the exit opportunities to work in something you want to do but also get paid decently for it.

It’s why you see GS and McK alums pepper interesting fields/jobs that also happen to pay decent.

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But that doesn’t help the person that wants to be a[b] musician or a florist.[/b][/quote]

DCUM is filled with ruthless, aggressive Tracy Flicks who force their kids to adopt their striver tendencies. I bet 90% of the parents on this board would never approve of their kid becoming a musician or florist. [/quote]

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