I mean, I understand where people that say that are coming from, but it really feels like bitterness at the same time. I landscaped for 55 hours a week in the summer for four years to help pay for college. My first job out of school was just the worst. Door-to-door telecom sales. But I was good at it, and I was able to demonstrate that to a legit sales company and landed my first well-paying gig. I had always wanted to work more on the finance side, so I was able to leverage my business partners to end up taking a job as a branch manager for a major bank. Did that for a few years, was a top performer again, and leveraged that experience to get a job in finance with one of the world's largest corporate merger trustees.

So yeah, my journey to my original "goal" took me seven years, but I got there. The whole "hur dur bootstraps" thing is such a shitty trope. Just sounds like people aren't willing to put in the effort, aren't willing to take jobs "beneath" them to get experience, or are simply bitter little college kids that haven't found a job by the time they graduate.

Did this all with a political science degree as well, fyi