School: top40. Major: math. GPA: 3.5. Current Salary: $16/h

[rocketman08]

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Listen kid, don’t be silly, because now you are making my blood boil. I never said that my friends who made a lot more than I and had good jobs were slackers. I said that my slacker friends did better than I. Big difference. (See if you can figure out why my statement is not logically equivalent to what you accuse me of).

You’re splitting hairs here. The important point is that you’re saying those that are/were slackers during their college years are now much better off than you. My point is that they obviously weren’t/aren’t that big of slackers if they’ve done well for themselves. YOU may have thought they were slackers but their success clearly speaks for itself in that department. </p>

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If a person is a 60 year old IBanker, I don’t think they are in it for the money that late in the game. I believe it’s a lot more likely that it’s just a little game they play to see how much money they can make.

I seriously doubt that’s the case. If they’re still in profession at that age then it’s clearly because they like what they do for a living… I doubt money has much to do with it. </p>

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They even seemed to think that I was some type of genius next to them - they constantly praised my intellect. Guess what? Now I earn less money than they earn, and they also don’t understand why.

Well being smart is great but it’s only one part of the many parameters required to be successful. Nobody is going to pay a smart person to work for a company if the only skill they offer is intelligence. It’s no secret and everyone’s been telling you that across all your many threads… figure out what you want to do, find out what skills you need to get there, and then go out and work on building up those skills. </p>

<p>Maybe you need some more schooling, maybe some practice with “life skills”, but the one thing that’s for sure is that constantly just whining on this forum is guaranteed to get you nowhere. </p>

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I did not deserve to end up worse off than my slacker friends. That’s why I worked hard in school while they were out partying and getting drunk. By “slacker friends,” of course, I’m referring to my friends who happened to be slackers, not all my friends. One more time, because logic is not your forte: by “slacker friends,” I’m referring to my friends who happened to be slackers, not all of them.

Again, your “slacker friends” clearly weren’t slacking off as much as you seem to think they were. And, as you’ve been told many times there’s a lot more to making yourself attractive to top employers that just good grades… it takes a lot more than that. An employer will take a well rounded individual with slightly lower grades over someone with higher grades (and not much else) anyday. That’s nothing new. </p>

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I wasted my time studying an useless subject: math. I wasted my time earning a 3.5 GPA. I wasted my time and money attending a top 40 school. Some of my slacker friends studied useless subjects, too, like sociology, and had GPAs lower than 3.0 and went to lousy state schools, but they were lucky enough to end up with jobs (unrelated to their fields of study) a lot more lucrative than mine.

I seriously doubt that the situation your in has much to do with your major, or your school. I have plenty of friends who did degrees in things you’d probably call “useless subjects” (for the record I certainly don’t think math is useless) but still did very well for themselves. </p>

<p>Why? Well, for one because they recognized that to succeed one needs more than just a piece of paper from a decent school… you need skills, you need to make yourself marketable to employers and they worked hard to go out and gain those skills and make themselves marketable both during school and after graduation. What they didn’t do is pout, sit around feeling sorry for themselves and whine about it on an internet forum. You’ve got a lot of good advice across your many threads… use it.</p>