The rude GS Ibanker has good advice.

[Bay]

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Working for GS doesn’t give anyone any special insight into anything. It’s just a job like any other.

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<p>The tweeter says this about that:</p>

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@GSElevator defends himself saying the banking background makes him see the value proposition, “because I try and look at it unemotionally in terms of risk/reward and supply/demand. There are too many people getting useless college degrees, and not enough people learning a skill or trade. By and large, the latter will do better financially.”

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<p>This guy probably has the experience and skills to be considered an “expert” in banking. I don’t know whether that qualifies him as someone we should listen to or not. Perhaps some would say we should listen only to job market experts when it comes to deciding whether to go to college or not. Who would that be? Economists who study the job market?</p>

[Hunt]

<p>Perhaps somebody who started his own business and succeeded would have an even better understanding of the “value proposition.”</p>

[Pizzagirl]

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@GSElevator defends himself saying the banking background makes him see the value proposition, “because I try and look at it unemotionally in terms of risk/reward and supply/demand. There are too many people getting useless college degrees, and not enough people learning a skill or trade.

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<p>Why would a banking background make him have any greater insight into “looking at things unemotionally in terms of risk/reward and supply/demand”? God, he’s so full of himself. Does he not think that insurance executives / consumer packaged goods company executives / whatever-company executives look at things unemotionally in terms of risk / reward and supply / demand?</p>

[Bay]

<p>I don’t know, but lots of people seem to think that movie stars have greater insight into just about everything, so it is not implausible to me that some would value the insight of a GS investment banker about what to do with their lives career-wise. At least he went to college, and probably grad school, and looks at economic factors in his job every day.</p>

[Pizzagirl]

<p>Well, don’t look at me. I think movie stars may have great insights into acting / directing / film-making / entertainment, but beyond that, nope, I don’t care about their opinions on politics or current events or (shudder) health / medical treatments!</p>

[Krlilies]

<p>I guess PG didn’t vote for Reagan and Schwarzenneger.</p>

[Pizzagirl]

<p>Kind of hard to vote for Schwarzenegger when I’m not a Californian.</p>

[Massmomm]

<p>I’m pretty sure anyone who has ever had a broken pipe or needed a new boiler is well aware that plumbers make good money. But not everyone is good with their hands and not everyone (shocker!) wants a lucrative career, just one that pays the bills.</p>

[barrons]

<p>I was hardly breathless it was a GS person versus any other company–could have been Microsoft, Google or Pizza Hut. It’s the message m need to hear and act upon. The 4 year college degree is being oversold to many kids who would be better off doing something else but dont want to be looked down upon by families and peers.</p>