re: #448 doppelganglander

Sort of like our trustafarians. It’s hard to overestimate the importance of connections. My daughter recently started her first job in D.C. She got it purely through her own efforts, as we are very obscure and uninfluential people. It would have been nice if we could have called up Dad’s old Yale roommate who’s a bigwig on the Hill, but we don’t know anyone important. Luckily she had a professor that took an interest in her and wrote sterling recommendations for her internships. He knows some people and that has helped her.

You are a lucky people, you and your family to have one another. I myself was also never able to draw on some connections, thus my career never really happened. This country is really not a meritocracy. IMHO