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To: GovernmentShrinker

Another poster stated that most graduates of this high school were working in cubicles or small officers and were terrified of middle managers. High intelligence is not always a measure of business success. I doubt this crop of students will do any better.


62 posted on 01/31/2006 2:21:14 PM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.

These kids are headed for schools like Harvard, MIT, etc., and into hard science majors at those schools -- not the multi-culti fluff that many of those schools offer (though MIT doesn't). There's no way they're going to be "terrified of middle managers". They're going to emerge from college and grad school as the people middle managers are terrified of losing, or of not being able to afford to hire in the first place. In the high-tech world, lots of people work in small offices or cubicles while earning tons of money and wielding lots of power. They'll eventually get bigger offices, but they're likely to get lavish Manhattan co-ops and Greenwich mansions first.

I have a nephew in his early 30s who graduated from MIT. He toyed with the idea of going to medical school, and while he was toying, he set up a tutoring company. It's making so much money he has trouble figuring out what to do with it all. He's bought several commercial and residential real estate properties as investments, and recently bought a state-of-the-art small plane for himself (equipped with a parachute http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/aviation/1280551.html?page=2&c=y ). Middle managers pay his company to get their kids heads sharpened up enough to get into decent colleges.


70 posted on 01/31/2006 2:36:15 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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