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<p>Carly got a $21 million severance package when she was fired. I certainly wouldn’t mind getting paid $21 million to be fired. Heck, you can fire me as many times as you want if you’re going to pay me that. </p>
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<p>As well as management consulting, venture capital, private equity, hedge funds, to name just a few. Coincidentally (OK maybe not), these happen to be among the most desirable of employers for new college graduates.</p>
<p>Academia is also extremely elitist - in fact, arguably the most elitist profession of all. It is the only discipline where careful perusing of somebody’s CV is not only tolerated, but actually encouraged, and your education is one of the very first items that is listed on the CV, just after your contact info and your current position. </p>
<p>And then we have today’s inauguration, where the Presidency was handed from one Harvard graduate to another. Heck, we will have a President who is a Harvard or Yale graduate (or both Harvard AND Yale in the case of GWB) for at least 24 years straight now and counting. If Obama is re-elected in 2012 and Hillary or perhaps Mitt Romney wins in 2016, then that would mean at least 32 years straight of Harvard or Yale in the White House.</p>