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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow this resonates for me! It feels like shit that people without guidance or role models [b]can often end up making all of the wrong decisions out of pure class ignorance.[/b] It sucks because everyone thinks there is something wrong with you.[/quote]

I don't get it. If you were really working class/middle class, why did you major in English? Pretty much all the non-wealthy students at my Ivy majored in STEM or went to law school or finance. [/quote]

DP: Because the message that many of us got was simply: “Go to college, get a steady job with benefits.” And no one, anywhere, including at our colleges told us anything that went beyond that.  I also think you might be wrong about what “pretty much all the non-wealthy students did”. —and/ or the students you went to school with had access to a lot more information than the students that I went to school with, possibly a decade or more before you.

Let me keep repeating this until you get it:  You don’t know what you don’t know.

And if no one goes out of their way to show you, teach, you, and expose you to what you don’t know — you still don’t know.  
Nice that all the “non-wealthy “ students that you knew went to law school. That takes time and money and support that many of the “non-wealthy “ students that I went to school with simply did not have.

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My counselors all said “follow your passion” and “do what you love and the money will follow”

Major really doesn’t matter anyway. I know a Russian Lit major whose first job was at Goldman. I know many English majors in corporate roles at Disney and Microsoft.  [b]The most important things are really internships and those first jobs — it needs to be the right pedigree/path.  And most jobs/internships are obtained through networking, so a random MC student won’t have any connections —[/b] I literally did not know any professionals except for my pediatrician and dentist and teachers. How would my factory working parents know even an accountant (does H&R Block seasonal worker count)?[/quote]

I disagree. Lots of corporate internships are obtained not through family networking, but through cold-applying and OCR.

Also, your first job after graduation doesn't matter that much. I know lots of people who bartended or worked on organic kale farms for a year after graduation but went to grad school and/or are now in high-paying corporate jobs from my Ivy. [/quote]

If you're actually interested in corporate work (especially in finance), [b]that first job out of college is by far the most important one.  It's what sets you up for everything: buyside opportunities, business school, etc.[/b][/quote]

+100[/quote]

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