Law school did a lot to bring me back down to earth.
It did to me as well. I realised that the very serious people who occupy very serious positions in society are either a bunch of borderline alcoholic nerds with deeply problematic views or vacuous careerists. The first thing they teach you in law school is how the majestic justice of the law is a fucking joke and the more questionable shit you can get away with the more they respect you.
No judge or lawyer or prosecutor or bureaucrat seriously believes that the legal system is a mechanism for achieving justice.
Business college does the same, it just teaches you that knowing things doesn't matter vis a vis making money or improving your own status; it's about knowing people and being willing to use them to your advantage at every opportunity.
So you either go left, disgusted by that, or you become some bloodsucker keen on exploiting as much as possible.
Most of the 'soft' classes impart that knowledge through materials (Managerial Behavior, anyone?), but we also had a guest speaker come in one day in one of my courses. He droned on about how he graduated with like a 2.7 GPA, but because he played golf with some of his dad's buddies (and daddy was a bigshot), one of them got him a start as a middle manager at some firm; this dude was an Executive Vice President™ at some overgrown firm when they brought him in for that lecture.
Corporate curated training for a retail management position was what did it for me.
Like cool you just want me to be a cop with extra steps? Shit on my fellow workers and lick boots for $2.50/hour more than a senior clerk position? Fuck this shit.
It did to me as well. I realised that the very serious people who occupy very serious positions in society are either a bunch of borderline alcoholic nerds with deeply problematic views or vacuous careerists. The first thing they teach you in law school is how the majestic justice of the law is a fucking joke and the more questionable shit you can get away with the more they respect you.
No judge or lawyer or prosecutor or bureaucrat seriously believes that the legal system is a mechanism for achieving justice.
Business college does the same, it just teaches you that knowing things doesn't matter vis a vis making money or improving your own status; it's about knowing people and being willing to use them to your advantage at every opportunity.
So you either go left, disgusted by that, or you become some bloodsucker keen on exploiting as much as possible.
Most of the 'soft' classes impart that knowledge through materials (Managerial Behavior, anyone?), but we also had a guest speaker come in one day in one of my courses. He droned on about how he graduated with like a 2.7 GPA, but because he played golf with some of his dad's buddies (and daddy was a bigshot), one of them got him a start as a middle manager at some firm; this dude was an Executive Vice President™ at some overgrown firm when they brought him in for that lecture.
I majored in bean counting at university
Business school is awful, lots of neolib indoctrination including "corporate social responsibility:cringe:"
Corporate curated training for a retail management position was what did it for me.
Like cool you just want me to be a cop with extra steps? Shit on my fellow workers and lick boots for $2.50/hour more than a senior clerk position? Fuck this shit.
Well that and growing up dirt poor of course.