Do you know anyone in this unfair situation?

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Do you know anyone from school who totally didn't take school serious, farted their way through with horrible grades partying instead barely graduated but made and now suddenly have an awesome paying job because their parents let them work with them? I know a lot of people who have that sudden easy advantage and better off then me now even though I busted my butt through grade school and college and now can't find a job.

It's all about charisma and who you know and not what you know. As you might know, George Bush passed Harvard with a C average. I find it pointless to go to school, as it guarantees me nothing without social connections, whereas social connections can even do things like, say, "honorary doctorates" and the like.

Also, to add to this, many people go to school JUST to make social connections. You join fraternities, you meet people who know people, who can then get you into a job because you're friends with someone or (more likely) belong to such and such a fraternity. Even in high school, this happens, with things like Key Club for example. So you go to college, join a frat, hopefully a good one that doesn't make you do a really really crazy initiation ritual/rape you, and tada. Later as an adult after you're done with your frat, you join the Masons and have an even more successful life while literally selling your soul in the initiation ceremony of these organizations.

To add even more, this is why certain schools are so expensive. It's not necessarily because of quality of eduction, it's just you're gonna meet richer people with more connections while you're in school. You're not gonna learn exponentially more at Harvard or Yale compared to a state college, but you'll meet exponentially more people with connections to people and organizations with influence.

Such is life.

I am in this situation, as is my husband. We have 4 degrees between us, but are not even in the middle class, because we are not good at all the back-slapping and hand-shaking and other social BS.

Hey--maybe that's the problem. Instead of B.A.'s, an M.A. and an A.S., we should have gotten a B.S. degree!

Went to school with a bloke who consistently paid almost no attention to classes and grades. His family was disappointed with him until he took up carpentry. He became quite good at custom cabinetry and such. Opened his own shop, made quite a bit of money. Then the economic downturn came along and he is all but broke these days.