Continuing the discussion…

No one asks the top CEOs where they went to college

Of the CEOs of the top 20 companies in last year’s Fortune 500, exactly one — Amazon.com Inc.’s Jeff Bezos — went to an Ivy League school (Princeton).

The article makes a couple important points:

1: People who have been actually successful seem to have come from everywhere *but* the Ivy League world

2: An Ivy league diploma will help you a grand total of once: getting your first job. Once there, you’d better perform, an your future career rests on your performance (or lack thereof) in the working world.

3: None of your co-workers will give a rats ass where you went. Do you know where *your* co-workers went to school? And if one or the other of them did go to an “elite” school *and* you know about it, did you find out because it was important for you to find out, or because they were the sort of jerk who felt the need to “brag” about it? Y’know, like a vegan? Nobody likes vegans. Don’t be like a vegan.

There is, of course, a counter-argument. Barack Obama went to Harvard and became quite possibly the *least* qualified Presidential candidate in US history. He had accomplished nothing of note prior to his election apart from winning a few other elections.