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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sure I have rose colored glasses looking back because it was my 20s, but got into selective college ED as a regular good student and after graduation found cool jobs and apartments in SF and then NYC pretty easily, plus it felt like people were starting to push back on some of the casual racism, homophobia, and sexism that was so prevalent in an 80s childhood. [/quote]

Same. I got accepted to 6 ivies and Stanford on mediocre stats. My jobs didn’t pay well and my gpa sucked yet whenever I wanted to make a job change, I could have an in-person interview in 2-3 applications and have an offer that week, every time. The level of competition was so different. Mass applications for schools and jobs weren’t a thing yet, so if you could write a decent cover letter, hold a strong conversation, and have an alumni or friend of a friend pulling for you in an office, you were in.

By the time I had worked a while and graduated from b-school, it was a very different world and the Internet and globalization made life feel like a fight against millions for scraps. I also have a knack for graduating into recessions, so that didn’t help.[/quote]

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