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11-13-2007, 06:59 PM
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| Boy Genius Finishes College at 10, Stuck in Crappy Job at 11
Boy Genius Finishes College at 10, Stuck in Crappy Job at 11 Quote:
Mozart wrote his first concerto at age five. Tiger Woods learned to play golf at three. And now Madison, New Jersey’s own child prodigy Jason Park is stuck in a crappy job at age 11.
Under the home-school guidance of his mother, Park finished high school at the age of six. He then breezed through college by the time he was eight and capped off his accelerated education by receiving his MBA from Villanova University at the tender age of 10. Now the precocious young man is a first-year consultant with a financial consulting firm making 58K a year, working 70-hour weeks and hating every minute of it.
| Should gifted children be allowed to work on their own by 11? Discuss.
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11-13-2007, 07:02 PM
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Never, no discussion needed.
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11-13-2007, 07:05 PM
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Wow is all I have to say.. may be back later with more... WOW
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11-13-2007, 07:07 PM
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Is he American? Because there are child labor laws... if you're eleven, that's just the academic version of a sweat shop. Unless he needs that 58K for his family to survive, utter madness.
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11-13-2007, 07:10 PM
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“I was always good at math, so my parents told me to study finance like John Kenneth Galbraith. Great! So here I am, a working stiff paying busting my ass in low-level financial advisory hell, counseling old biddies about whether to buy 10 shares of this mutual fund or that, one all in a futile attempt to make partner by 15.”
| Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! This is a hoax! Very funny!
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11-13-2007, 07:10 PM
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That's hilarious.
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11-13-2007, 07:14 PM
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is this real?
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11-13-2007, 07:15 PM
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Seriously, a hoax. Read the "story".
Working at 11, yeah, right.....
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11-13-2007, 07:23 PM
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Whether the story is real or not is up to interpretation  , but the guy actually exists: LinkedIn: Jason Park | |
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11-13-2007, 07:28 PM
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It was satire. Check out the home page of the Website: UsedWigs. I thought it was reasonably funny.
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11-13-2007, 07:29 PM
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It's not even funny if it's a joke. It's just sad as a joke. If it's true the parents should be jailed.
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11-13-2007, 07:36 PM
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As satire, it's pretty pithy. Funny in a making-a-point kind of way. I think there's room for that.
Edit: actually, when I read the excerpt, I wondered if it were an Onion article; it has that ring to it.
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11-13-2007, 07:42 PM
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Garland, the site is really funny. It reminded me of the Onion, too.
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11-13-2007, 07:52 PM
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Heh, it looks like if I posted Onion links here that they would be believed.
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11-13-2007, 07:56 PM
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I can be gullible, but even I spotted that as a hoax. Amusing nonetheless.
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