<p>Not all jobs require genius-level people skills…</p>
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<p>I think the more relevant question there is why should it… just because you did well in school doesn’t mean you’ll do well in the real world. The fact that you don’t understand that probably sums up why you’re so upset…</p>
<p>I think it should be assumed that the person will do well at the office because many of the skills they learned in college such as time management and work ethic are directly applicable to the workplace. Furthermore, I believe that there is a strong positive correlation between academic performance and job performance. Sure, there are cases like the one of the MIT guy who ended up driving a cab, but those cases are few and far between.</p>
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<p>Seriously, w<em>tee</em>f?</p>
<p>What planet do you think you live on? Do you realize that you live on planet earth? Stop living in some sort of mathematical (non-existant) world. Come back to reality. </p>
<p>Work ethic can you places, but eventually not very far when you don’t have social skills. People will not magically give you opportunities. To get to the top, you will need to know how to lead the bottom. Also do you realize that many times the person that is not the most qualified and sometimes even an unqualified person can get a job over the most qualified person? Why? Because they have social skills. They know how to interact with people. In addition, do you realize that there is going to be people that are going to try to make your live hell? Would you know how to deal with those people?</p>
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<p>With humility and circumvention.</p>
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<p>But I’m sure all colleges give you that, not just top schools. You learn valuable skills no matter wherever you go, and yet college graduates can still not realize their dreams. Going to a top school does not guarantee anything, not even close. I don’t think these types of cases are “far and between.” I also don’t think academic performance will determine how well you do in life. Like someone said before, you need more than just book smarts to get you through in life.</p>
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<p>I agree that people should be humble. However, there is a difference between acting humble and acting like an idiot. </p>
<p>How are you going to “circumvent” the situation? You don’t know anybody.</p>
<p>FYI, most people end up working in jobs way different than their major in undergrad, unless they move on to higher education such as grad school/professional school.</p>
<p>Don’t cab drivers make more than engineers? I thought they made a ton of money. You have to pay over couple hundreds of thousands just to get a license to drive one in NYC…</p>
<p>^ A pretty quick google search (I started with “taxi driver NYC income”) will show you that on the whole, that’s incorrect (both re: annual income + licensing fee). Significantly incorrect, from what I can tell. </p>
<p>(Sounded interesting but unbelievable, so I looked it up. And for what it’s worth, the original story isn’t so terribly weird. I had a teacher who went to MIT, but afterwards, spent time working on a salmon boat. He needed a change of scene and the opportunity presented itself. Why not?)</p>
<p>This said, I’m going to have to echo posts 4, 9, 11, 12…you get the idea (at least, one would hope).</p>
<p>Taken from the Reuters website:</p>
<p>*New York taxi license hits record price: $600,000
Wed May 30, 2007 10:44am EDT</p>
<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - The price of a license to operate a New York taxi cab hit a record $600,000 in May, according to a lending company which financed the purchase.</p>
<p>Medallion Financial Corporation said it had financed the purchase of two medallions – the license to operate a yellow cab in New York – for a total of $1.2 million by a large corporate fleet operator.</p>
<p>“Prices of corporate medallions have increased from $195,000 in 2001 to the record $600,000 this week,” Andrew Murstein, president of the lending company, said in a statement on Tuesday. It said the previous record was about $550,000.</p>
<p>New York has around 13,000 yellow cabs. A typical $10 fare would cover a trip from the Empire State Building in Midtown Manhattan to the Financial District at the south of the island, assuming no time stuck in traffic and without a tip.*</p>
<p>^ I think we’re talking about pretty different things (the Reuters article is about the cost of purchasing a corporate medallion…I was looking up the cost of purchasing a taxi driving license), but at least now I understand where BerkeleySenior’s numbers came from. Bottom line is that you don’t have to shell out $600K just to drive a NYC cab (the clearest explanation I found was on Wikipedia: [Taxicabs</a> of New York City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission - Wikipedia)%5DTaxicabs”>New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission - Wikipedia))).</p>
<p>Anyway, bit off topic, but thanks again…ah, the things we learn at CC :)</p>
<p>ETA: An example of what I was finding: [New</a> York Special Licenses - Bus, CDL, Taxi, Chauffer, & Other NY Drivers Licenses - DMV.ORG](<a href=“http://www.dmv.org/ny-new-york/special-licenses.php]New”>Special Driver's Licenses in New York | DMV.ORG)</p>
<p>Salaries in NY:
[Who</a> Makes How Much - New York’s Salary Guide 2005](<a href=“http://nymag.com/guides/salary/14497/index5.html]Who”>Who Makes How Much - New York's Salary Guide 2005 - Nymag)</p>
<p>This one is interesting:
Flower
$150,000
Cocaine dealer, Lower East Side (
$275 per one-eighth ounce)</p>
<p>honestly i felt bad for u but seriously now i think you’re ■■■■■■■■</p>
<p>Nickel I was talking to Moire, not you :)</p>
<p>lol thats just how it goes buddy!</p>
<p>If you want to get people skills, you could try to go to a personal trainer of sorts; at least in the media, proof seems that such people exist, such as Mr.E from VH1 Pickup Artist and the movies Hitch and some movie with Napolean Dynamite star in it. Of course, you’re broke, so I don’t you’d be able to afford life changing lessons(and of course, who knows if you’d be a success). </p>
<p>I just mention it because I think its a cool idea, since I can improve vastly in my people’s skills.</p>
<p>I like the pole position analogy. </p>
<p>Moire, you might have started in the front of the pack but you’re lack of social skills and astounding sense of entitlement has cost you dearly. Work on the entitlement issues first. Nobody owes you anything, no matter where you went to school or how well you did. Your past education is a tool which you can use to get ahead in “real life” but you’re doing it ineffectively right now. Remember, tool, not key. Keys just open up stuff, tools you have to actively use.</p>
<p>Example: I’ve got two friends that just graduated in the same major from the same school. Person A had a GPA of 2.3, Person B was somewhere around a 3.7. Person A is getting around 80k a year starting out at a job he really enjoys (this is in engineering) while person B had to take a job they didn’t really like because all the ones she “REALLY DESERVED!!!” turned her down. So she’s working for something around 50k somewhere she doesn’t particularly like. Why?</p>
<p>Person B thought that her GPA had “earned” her a good job. It doesn’t work like that. All your GPA does is get you the interview. Once you get to the interview your GPA and school Do. Not. Matter. Repeat that for me. Once you get to the interview your school and GPA Do. Not. Matter. They want someone who’s going to be easy to work with and has some relevant experience. And even those don’t entitle you to anything, everyone’s just as free to not hire you as they are to hire you.</p>
<p>That’s all you need to hear, although I doubt you’ll listen.</p>
<p>I hear you. It’s just that I have a hard time getting over the fact that I allowed myself to be deceived most of my life.</p>
<p>chuy,</p>
<p>That’s mostly true, though GPA is taken into account when calculating pay grades (salaries) for government jobs.</p>