r/SipsTea • u/late_to_redd1t • 18h ago

SMH The advice didn't age well.

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u/Adorable_Echo_4317 18h ago

Just walk into a skyscraper, hand out your resume in person and become CEO in 2 weeks.. what's so hard to understand? You're all just lazy.

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u/ecovironfuturist 17h ago

You want to go to grad school to do what?? Just go sweep up around the office someone will give you some work to do.

And it literally worked that way for them. It was codified as apprenticeships or interns or pages or copy boys...

I know one person who made the transition from sweeping up to six figure career. He's a great guy and totally deserving, everybody loved him and he's smart and hard working, but I'm also 100% sure the people who gave him the shot felt great about themselves for doing it - and they should! But times have changed and people are looking for diamonds in the rough, or if they are the "rough" is the ivy league.

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u/Everyone_dreams 14h ago

My father has a high school degree. Some college classes he made C in and got his break working at an airport sorting baggage.

He rode that into a 40+ year career where he became a director.

If you hired someone into the same role today they would never be allowed to meaningfully change positions.

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u/Few_Swan_3672 9h ago

Talking to someone in a C level position recently who worked their way up from ~1989 from an entry level. The org happens to be hiring a equal level job. Said VP level literally does not qualify for his job. He has a BS, now requires MBA and years of experience leading similar sized teams in a similar sized org, growing in size over time to match your title, etc. These people do not seem to grasp that they would no longer be hired for the job they walked in off the street and filled out a paper application for.

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u/Everyone_dreams 7h ago

Agreed. It’s even stranger when I talk to my father. He recognizes that people would never be hired with the same qualifications he had because he lead the teams that negotiated with the unions for their contracts. So he knows exactly what it takes to get hired and what it takes to switch jobs.

At the same time he doesn’t believe that young people have it harder because for a brief moment in the early 1980s the interest rate to buy a home was sky high. And the city (or county?) set up a program to ensure people like him and my mom could borrow money to afford a home. And other stuff like that. And no facts I show him can change his mind.

The fact I reached making 100k was huge to him, never mind the fact it was far less money than he’s was making buying power wise in the 90s.