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The only good thing about millennials is that Generation X'ers can brainwash them easily.
Sometimes believing in anything can be a good thing:
Millennial #1: Yoyo we can make an app with disappearing d**k pics and become rich
Gen X'er: Get the F**k otta here with that b*llsh*t. You can go suck my d**k.
Millennial #2: Yeah man let's do it! I've been meaning to quit my day job for months now (started job 6 months ago).
Thanks for the topic, original poster. Try not to be so hard on yourself. NYC is a tough city. This city is loaded with liars. There is a lot of nepotism and also when people are given a leg up they naturally tend to conceal it. You sound stressed and negative even but its probably not an unwarranted reaction.
Sure NYC has tons of great opportunity but its nowhere near the amount of low-opportunity. Look at this forum. People are begging for handouts! They are dieing for relief. And we all know, even if a person networks like mad and does everything right does not guarantee they get lucky.
Is that how it works here in NYC? To get a good job, you either have to be carrying an advance degree from an Ivy League or have some connections at one of these prestigious companies? I've applied to so many jobs and constant rejections.
As I get around and do my more research, it seems like unless you went to a top school, you don't have a fighting chance of getting a good opportunity in this city. I've noticed that everyone employed at most of these top employers or in good positions all went to a prestigious school. I've talked to some of them but as soon as they find out i didn't get to an ivy league, they brush me off and give me the cold shoulder.
What dissapoints me more is that half of the people i've met don't even have half the real world experience i do. I've talked to them about some basic business and sales principles and some of them couldn't even recognize what i was talking about...and they're holding advanced positions. un-f'n believable.
What's the secret to getting into these companies? tired of working for bull**** companies making pennies trying to survive here. haha.
It's not the school you went to or not even necessarily the degree you have; it's what the person does with it and how that makes all the difference. For example, I know attorneys who "can't find jobs" and I also know high school graduates making hundreds of thousands a year or more.
It's the hustle, drive and ambition that make you, not a piece of paper.
Having a degree from the ancient 8, Georgetown, Stanford, MIT, caltech, Carnegie Mellon, nyu, uva, Duke, John Hopkins, Baylor will grab the attention from plenty of hiring managers in elite cities. If one has a degree from an not so name institution or public college, he or she might have to obtain an advanced degree in order to compete with high level 4 year degrees from the institutions I have mentioned.
One of these things is not like the other. Even in Texas, a degree from Baylor isn't seen as anything special, and would definitely rank below more selective schools like Rice and UT. There is nothing wrong with a Baylor degree, it just not looked on any better than TCU, SMU, or A&M.
I cannot believe the "brattery" / princess types and entitled people that I'm reading about on this thread. For your information, one can live a comfortable lifestyle with only 75K and even 65K here as a single person in NYC - I've done it before. What are you guys doing with your money??!
Paying below 110th Street prices, maybe
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One of my coworkers lives by where NYU is at the village and he pays less rent than I do. We both got our 1 bedroom RS apartments back in the mid 90's, though.
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. I didn't expect my thread to get so many replies.
