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Honestly, its because you suck at life. You have no people skills, you have no street smarts, you have nothing that lets you be able to function and be respected in society. All you know how to do is complain and/or read your math textbook. </p>
<p>Good luck.
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<p>And what do you propose I do in order to improve my life?</p>
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<p>Start by improving the lives of those around you. For example, us. By not posting these threads.</p>
<p>I think I figured out how Moire could retire at 40. He can shoot his slacker friends in a fit of rage of having a better more fulfilling life and then go to jail for the rest of his life. The End.</p>
<p>^^^wow you guys are mean. my post was meant to be motivating…</p>
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<p>what is your life like right now?ie what needs to be improved outside of your job?</p>
<p>attention wh*re much?</p>
<p>Honestly moire, get over yourself, you’ve posted countless times with the same subject. Stop being bitter of what you have achieved, just because you attend a top school doesn’t mean that you deserve success. MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIFE.</p>
<p>We can’t tell you how to improve your life, haha. That’s one of those things you have to figure out yourself now that you’re in the real world. </p>
<p>And, amazingly enough, getting into a better school and even doing more work doesn’t mean you’ll have a better life. Effort doesn’t always provide results- maybe with grades, it does, but in real life that doesn’t happen all the time and there’s nothing CCers can do about it.</p>
<p>dude…you…again!, GOD, what a loser! Stop complaining! Go do something about it!</p>
<p>I know a person that went to MIT and he drives a cab now. Bill Gates is a college drop-out and he makes more than we ever will. xD I doubt <em>where</em> you went to college really matters. It’s what you do with the degree that counts. If you go to Harvard, get a degree, and then not even bother looking for a job, I doubt you’ll be better off than someone else. If you don’t like what you’re doing now, try to find another job or something.</p>
<p>Out in the real world there isn’t any path to follow and it is obvious that you have always just gotten on a path and followed it along. Your “slacker” freinds have realized that when you are an adult, you have to go out and make your own path.
In the work place, once you have had your first job, the college that you attended doesn’t matter one bit in 99% of the cases. It’s the work that you do in your job that matters.
Get up off your butt and go out and try a few different things. You might like one of them?! And if you don’t like it; then look around and try something else. The ONLY way to end up doing something you enjoy is to find out what that is, and in your case, you won’t know unless you try it.
Get out of your room and live your life!</p>
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I know a person that went to MIT and he drives a cab now.
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<p>I don’t buy it… What’s “wrong” with him?</p>
<p>Nothing that I know of. I think his business just failed or something. Then he went into debt. I didn’t want to ask, “Hey, how come you suck at life even though you went to MIT?” My middle school teacher went to Stanford. She wasn’t making a six figure income and had had the same job for years. I don’t think going into a top school means you’ll make the big bucks in life.</p>
<p>Being a cab driver doesn’t make you a failure. Even if you don’t enjoy it, working hard for money (even if it isn’t a lot) is respectable.</p>
<p>Could it be that he was temporarily working as a cab driver in order to keep himself busy and maintain a source of income during a period of frictional unemployment?</p>
<p>going to a top school does not guarantee you will make big bucks as it was previously stated. not sure what’s so hard to believe about that or whats so ‘wrong’ with that person for not making big bucks after graduating from a top school.</p>
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<p>You’re one to judge? I’m not so sure that driving people around is any less noble or worthy than laying bricks and welding beams.</p>
<p>jack4640 - You gave me a chuckle, but I have to disagree with you. Moire’s threads always lead to humorous comments (such as yours) and never fail to amuse me.</p>
<p>I was being sarcastic, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being a cab driver either.</p>
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<p>Or he could just be a cab driver. Why is it hard to believe someone that went from MIT now drives a cab? If I said he went to a community college, you’d believe it, wouldn’t it. But because he went to <em>MIT</em> then there’s no way, am I right?</p>
<p>If the guy went to MIT, he is probably very intelligent, and if he is very intelligent, it doesn’t take a huge leap of the imagination to suppose he’d prefer a job that’s more intellectually rewarding than driving a cab. While I don’t deny the possibility that cases like the one you described exist, I believe it’s highly unlikely that a person with such background who is mentally and emotionally stable and with no extra baggage would gladly settle for a cab driving job.</p>
<p>Intelligence and “success” in the real world generally have very little correlation. Succeeding in both those areas requires different skill sets. There are highly intelligent un-successful people just like there are total highly un-intelligent people in positions of high success. If you did well in college then that’s great, but it dosen’t mean you’re going do have a successful career. It obviously gives you a good start, but it’s up to you to succeed… not your degree or college. </p>
<p>I say that only correlating the general public perception that driving a cap isn’t a particularly successful career, but if the person in question enjoys doing it then that’s all that matters.</p>
<p>But if a person is smart/hard-working enough to do well in school, why shouldn’t it be assumed that the person will do well at the office?</p>
<p>^^^^People skills, ;)</p>