[evman150]

Originally Posted by Bonded

I find a lot of people fail to realize the advantages they had in life and really fall into the I did this all by myself trope. From my experience it is that they run in social circles where getting help from parents is the norm and then they see people who failed to take advantage of their circumstances and point to them as why they did it all by themselves.

I am in a really good job and I took a little bit of an unconventional path to get there but I could take some risks because my parents paid for university. A lot of people don't have that advantage and they should. I fell into a career that I would not have had access to if I needed something to start paying the bills right away. It really clicks with me and I have been able to go on a heck of a run with it compared to some of my colleagues but I started from second base.

I find it really annoying when successful start up/business founders say they did it all by themselves when really they had access to their parents network of connections/wealth and also knew they had a fallback plan in case they failed.
Pull yourself up by the bootstraps is the worst of it wrapped in a simple idiom.

This is such a good (and important) post. Thank you for sharing.