<p>Agreed, if you can't get a leadership position anywhere, just start your own club. At least you're guaranteed to be president. That's what I did!</p>
<p>"Take comfort in the fact that once you get into the real world (Or heck, even college), she won't be able to lean on her popularity anymore. It will come down to WHAT you know instead of WHO (with a few exceptions of course)."</p>
<p>Lol, are you kidding =P</p>
<p>^ its true. A CEO isnt going to hire a super-socio person for a job like manager when she cant even get to work in the morning. A CEO who does hire that kind of person is going to go bankrupt pretty quickly.</p>
<p>Connections play a part, but you aren't going to win anything in life if you just suck.</p>
<p>What I'm doing to get leadership positions is kinda setting myself up for them. For example, I 'm friends with the people in Planet Earth (environmental club) and I love the environment. THerefore, I "suggested" to have different commitees for a specific group and each group has a leader. Then, there's just a few ppl and most likely, people don't like to run for "small" leadership positions. I ran unopposed. Therefore, I gained a real leadership position without a lot of work.</p>
<p>"Take comfort in the fact that once you get into the real world (Or heck, even college), she won't be able to lean on her popularity anymore. It will come down to WHAT you know instead of WHO (with a few exceptions of course)."</p>
<p>Wow, hisgracefills me, really showing your naivete there. That's just completely wrong. Connections are so important in the real world. Interpersonal skills and popularity play a huge role in who will receive the promotion. This is not a situation you will escape after high school, OP.</p>
<p>" its true. A CEO isnt going to hire a super-socio person for a job like manager when she cant even get to work in the morning. A CEO who does hire that kind of person is going to go bankrupt pretty quickly.</p>
<p>Connections play a part, but you aren't going to win anything in life if you just suck."</p>
<p>Trying to make an argument by referring to extreme examples is just faulty logic.</p>
<p>Well that's okay because FRANKLY I DON'T CARE if I am popular or not because most of those kids that I know are not very smart or have been nasty to me so I don't want to be there. I'd rather rely on how smart I am and what kind of person I am.</p>
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^ its true. A CEO isnt going to hire a super-socio person for a job like manager when she cant even get to work in the morning. A CEO who does hire that kind of person is going to go bankrupt pretty quickly.</p>
<p>Connections play a part, but you aren't going to win anything in life if you just suck.
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<p>That's completely assuming that all popular people are incompetent.</p>
<p>Maybe you don't care about how popular you are, and that's a legitimate decision, but you need to remember that you can't rely only on your intelligence in life even if that's what you want to do. In high school, your teachers are human beings, the sponsors of the clubs you participate in are human, the kids in your class are human. At work, the people in charge of your salary are human. It's in human nature to be biased towards friends.</p>
<p>Being well-liked and respected is a skill, and no matter how you cut it, it's a necessary skill to have.</p>
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^ its true. A CEO isnt going to hire a super-socio person for a job like manager when she cant even get to work in the morning. A CEO who does hire that kind of person is going to go bankrupt pretty quickly.</p>
<p>Connections play a part, but you aren't going to win anything in life if you just suck.
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<p>Yeah, unfortunately there are plenty of those pesky popular people who are also competent and good-looking. They just lucked out I guess. SOB's.... hehe.</p>
<p>Just start your own club! Or look outside of your high school for leadership opportunities.</p>