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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Successful meaning financially or otherwise (maybe you're at the tippy top of a lowly paid field), do you still feel insecure about where you went to college?

I'm in my early twenties, just starting out. So many people say that it's what you do after school that matters most and that makes sense to me, logically speaking. But then I see posts from people saying they make a small fortune (high six figures/low seven) and still feel insecure about where they went to college. I'm just wondering how common that is.[/quote]

Went to mid-west State U. Nothing special about it but my parents begged me to go b/c they could afford the tuition (but then ended up not paying anyway).  So I went out of guilt.

I subsequently went to grad school.

Now I'm working as a GS-15 (I took a step down from SES for work-life reasons).  We're comfortable (not rich), have a great work life balance, and lots of vacation time.[/quote]

There's some insecurity on my part and it has nothing to do with money.  I don't think that I really received a good education.  College at a large university prepared me well enough to earn a good income but it didn't really educate me.  I think if I had the family background to know better, the resources would have been there but I didn't know to look and zero guidance.  The emphasis was heavily on graduating to a good job.  I didn't realize this until my kids went to private schools and I was surrounded by well read friends.  Not that you can't be well read on your own but I do believe that most elite schools provide a baseline whether it be by mandatory coursework or peer influence.

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