ManVan, that is great news! What an auspicious start for your son’s career!
As I read the facts, the above is the clear and indisputable takeaway.
As for whatever else the facts are, I’m just plain confused. The thread began with that curious statement – sometimes the facts are the facts – as if in response to some discussion or argument I was not a part of (what gives?) and offered up as self-evident proof of something. And then the phrase appears again – along with a statement about the forum being what it is. Clearly I’m extremely late to the party, and I don’t know if I can catch up without some help.
So the facts. Or rather what they mean. For my part, after the slightly disconcerting (see above) facts sometimes being the facts opening, I read the sequence of events leading up to ManVan’s son acquiring representation and a great gig even before he’s graduated. Love to hear that stuff.
But what else is self-evident about these facts? Should we read them as proof that attending a “top” school is always the best option for all kids in all situations, as one poster contends? Should we infer that school choice played a larger role than training and talent? Or a smaller but still important role? Or perhaps no role? Or is one person’s experience simply anecdotal and it’s not worth trying to argue it into anything emblematic of some thing larger? I honestly have no idea. I’m not even sure what people really mean when they say “top” school in any substantive boots-on-the-ground sense beyond the nebulous notion of prestige and conventional wisdom. I know some people believe such things are do or die – I just don’t know. I don’t even know what ManVan was hinting at (again, a party i wasn’t attending). For my part, I choose to read the facts as a stroke of well-deserved good fortune and an auspicious start to a hopefully great career. That’s it. Maybe that’s what ManVan was getting at. Maybe not. But that’s how I’m reading the facts.
So – CONGRATULATIONS!