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This brings back a funny memory. In elementary school when we would do the magazine fundraiser (where you sell as many magazine subscriptions as you can) the rich kids that you speak of would always sell WAAAAAY more than anyone else and get the huge prize for selling so many.
How did they do it? By selling subscriptions to ALL the employees at dad's company who wanted to brown-nose to the boss and his kid.
So annoying. They've had it easy their whole life.
I am also jealous that they get out of college with NO COLLEGE DEBT.
This brings back a funny memory. In elementary school when we would do the magazine fundraiser (where you sell as many magazine subscriptions as you can) the rich kids that you speak of would always sell WAAAAAY more than anyone else and get the huge prize for selling so many.
How did they do it? By selling subscriptions to ALL the employees at dad's company who wanted to brown-nose to the boss and his kid.
So annoying. They've had it easy their whole life.
I am also jealous that they get out of college with NO COLLEGE DEBT.
I'm not jealous at all. They will be looked down all their life as persons who got their position because they are "son of John Smith".
You don't need to be son of "important person" to get out of college without debts. You can be an immigrant like me who got his degrees in his homeland
Exactly!
Getting a doctorate from Oxford is no small feat.
What are the bush girls doing with their lives these days
Jenna married a politician's son and became a writer and NBC news correspondent (like Chelsea). Now, she makes money just by breathing, and there's plenty more where that came from.
After Yale, Barbara used her family connections to found Global Health Corps., and she's currently the CEO.
... Unless your question was rhetorical, in which case we will just pretend that the Bush twins faded into obscurity and poverty, and we all live in a meritocracy.
* Kid of well-to-do family parties throughout college and has no work experience or marketable degree or marketable skills
* Can't find good job on his/her own
* Family or family's friends get him a high-paying job at their company
On the one hand, I'm jealous of these people, but on the other hand I see it as a form of upper-class welfare. Oftentimes the job the person gets is one that wasn't even needed by the company but was "created" to employ the person. Really, it's like a form of charity in disguise. Might as well outright transfer money to the kid.
One of NY's senators was just convicted of lying to the FBI {felony}. The Lie? was about whether or not he used his influence to get his son a great job at a top law firm.
This brings back a funny memory. In elementary school when we would do the magazine fundraiser (where you sell as many magazine subscriptions as you can) the rich kids that you speak of would always sell WAAAAAY more than anyone else and get the huge prize for selling so many.
How did they do it? By selling subscriptions to ALL the employees at dad's company who wanted to brown-nose to the boss and his kid.
So annoying. They've had it easy their whole life.
I am also jealous that they get out of college with NO COLLEGE DEBT.
In elementary school, my kids had that magazine drive, too. One of my sons won the top prize one year. How? Well, he hoofed it through the neighborhood, then hoofed it through the next neighborhood over, and after that, hoofed it through the neighborhood after that (with me following at a distance - he was only 10 years). He was (and still is) a persistent little bugger. He won it fair and square.
He also graduated with zero college debt (and with honors) from a private university. How? We saved, he worked, he saved, and he got scholarships. It can be done.
McKinsey recruits a lot of people from Stanford and $120k is not unreasonable for that company.
uh.. that is what I said.
but they don't usually recruit history majors (even from Stanford), unless they have some special background, like speaking fluent Arabic, or ... having a dad who was the President of the United States.
but they don't usually recruit history majors (even from Stanford), unless they have some special background, like speaking fluent Arabic, or ... having a dad who was the President of the United States.
Or graduating near the top of the class from Stanford. Remember Stanford is not a small state university.
It's only deplorable if it isn't happening to me...
Nepitisim me into something and I want blink at the seeming unfairness of it. Nothing is fair anyway. If it were fair hundreds of millions of people wouldn't be starving or within clean water. Where and who you are born to can make all the difference.
It depends upon the field though. Certain disciplines don't lend themselves favorably to nepotism (medicine, science, etc), but if the job is related to bringing in additional business/fundraising, then the famous child potentially has more lateral connections to generate new business/investments, etc. Not sure exactly what Chelsea is doing for a living, but she can pick up the phone and have heads of state and captains of industry at he beckon call, that would be worth a great deal to many businesses.
Being a doctor is not like ER (TV show), or House. It can be pretty routine for the most part.
Not every "scientist" is discovering some ground breaking new concept or theory.
These are not cut throat occupations.
Nepotism can permeate anywhere.
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