<p>I will make a very big effort NEVER to be snarky, thanks for calling the vets out on that.</p>
<p>But I don’t think people are snarky on the basic questions. I work in corporate recruiting and have helped hire thousands of people over the last 30 years. I have answered questions from parents on CC about how the hiring process works for years- just recently did long series of private PM’s- and don’t get snarky even when telling people for the 50th time, “Don’t speculate that you can’t get an interview with JP Morgan if you go to Georgia Tech. Go to the career portion of the JP Morgan website and download their recruiting calendar and you will see exactly where they recruit and when their visits are.” I am happy to answer almost any question if I can be helpful with getting a kid launched professionally, especially when it calms a parent down because they want the kid to major in accounting so he or she can get a job and the kid hates accounting and gets a rash every time he or she has calculate NPV. Or whatever.</p>
<p>But I still maintain that the irritating questions are from people who expect a bunch of strangers to magically find $200K under the mattress or to help their lovely but quite ordinary kid develop a “hook” senior year of HS, or to give them ideas for getting another 30K in merit aid when they’ve already gotten the college’s top award, etc.</p>
<p>But no more snark. Good suggestion from the newbies.</p>