You’ve described a perfect plan to be a wage slave slogger.

Yes, unfortunately the world is full of small minded people that insist they need an elite intern from a psuedo-Ivy. I had a former CEO who had to salve his ego with one from Stanford. She was young and pretty. Smart too. And of course, one of my organizational reports two levels down with just an AA had to keep fixing her reports…

There’s great irony in knowing the same CEO rejected the AA’s plan and then approved the plan when the intern presented it.

That whole learning versus reality thing. I also know Berkeley grad school STEM people too. Smart, creative and work like a beasts.

I also know people from CalTech, MIT, UCLA undergrad and grad programs.

20 years ago very different than today. Still plenty of super bright super creative people and plenty sloggers.

I also know plenty of people from Podunk U work side by side with them.

And at the point someone is CEO, if the company and shareholders are still looking at his college school and grades, they’re just screwed up.