>if you're 22-25 now and move into the Bay, do you have a good chance of ending up a made man (or woman)? The answer is "no".
Of myself and all my acquaintances in the 21-25 age range, most grads are either:
1.) Working in SV/Tech for Corp X, making 6 figures, and independent
2.) Working in NYC/Finance for Corp Y, making 6 figures, and independent
3.) Post-grad (masters, medical, law)
4.) Back at home with mom & dad, with crippling debt, bombarded with the rhetoric that "millennials don't want to work, can't move out of their parents homes, are selfish," and so on and so forth.
So I'd say it depends on what means to be a "made man." Did the workers who worked for Ford and GM aspire to be the Zuckerbergs and Brin's of their time, or were they just happy to have a relatively stable, high paying job? Were the auto workers of the 50s and 60s made men?
Of myself and all my acquaintances in the 21-25 age range, most grads are either:
1.) Working in SV/Tech for Corp X, making 6 figures, and independent
2.) Working in NYC/Finance for Corp Y, making 6 figures, and independent
3.) Post-grad (masters, medical, law)
4.) Back at home with mom & dad, with crippling debt, bombarded with the rhetoric that "millennials don't want to work, can't move out of their parents homes, are selfish," and so on and so forth.
So I'd say it depends on what means to be a "made man." Did the workers who worked for Ford and GM aspire to be the Zuckerbergs and Brin's of their time, or were they just happy to have a relatively stable, high paying job? Were the auto workers of the 50s and 60s made men?