People Who Are Obsessed with Success and Prestige

Re:People Who Are Obsessed with Success and Prestige by paulgb on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @09:55AM (#21980432)

Also, I think Jobs is the only one who could really be said to eschew prestige institutuons. Gates went to Harvard and Musk went to Wharton (and Queen's, which is the Canadian equivalent of ivy-league).

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Re:People Who Are Obsessed with Success and Prestige by glitchc on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @03:37PM (#21984519)

Queen’s is far from the Canadian equivalent of “Ivy League.” You must be from Queen’s.

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Re:People Who Are Obsessed with Success and Prestige by paulgb on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:23PM (#21985760)

Ha, far from it, I went to Waterloo. Not that I bought into rivalries, but if we had one it was Queen's

The comparison in this context was that Queen's has a reputation for attracting status-seeking people banking on a management consulting career path.

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Re:People Who Are Obsessed with Success and Prestige by huffmsa on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @08:39PM (#21987381)

I didn't mention their schooling. I only care about where they didn't work.

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