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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
And I'm willing to work hard to get my slice of the pie.
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Ahh, but what if you did spend 60 hour weeks, which is more than HALF of your waking existence, trying to bust your ass for a piece of the pie but end up getting nothing?
Just because you work hard doesn't mean you'll get the proper promotions or benefits.
A lot of people seem to have this idea of, "If you work hard enough, it will pay off for you in the end", and that's just not always true. More like, if you're an entrepreneur, have good social skills, business saavy, etc., which not everyone has, regardless of how much they work.
Anyway, a teenager working at McDonald's shouldn't consider this. What, he's gonna go from a drive thru worker to CEO of McDonald's? Highly unlikely. The most that'll happen is he gets promoted to manager making $30k a year, which... honestly isn't much of a promotion for all the "hard work". There's no incentive.
You work at MTV, right? I'm sure there's room for promotion there. That's vastly different from something like a stock boy, bagger, janitor, etc. I don't think a janitor at MTV can get promoted to anything high in the company. Even if you did their website, I don't think there's much room for promotion beyond the IT department, so in a way you're very limited to what you can get (I don't know, though, I don't work there.. just makes sense).
As for the slackers during the dot com boom, all just a matter of being in the right place at the right time. Most of those people weren't very talented. A lot of that was bad judgement on VC, so a group of "computer saavy" teens could easily get a multimillion dollar invesment from a company to do whatever because they thought anything technical was a goldmine. The reality is, what they accomplised from that multimillion dollar investment could've easily been done by pretty much anyone else for much less. A lot of the older investors had NO clue about technology and how easy it is to do certain things.. lots of bad judgments. "OMG, I'll give you $1 million to make me a webpage that looks cool.. and put some of that 'flash' stuff on there."
That situation, to me, really had nothing to do with hard work or positive attitude towards others so much as just getting lucky - much like a poor man making $15,000 a year gets when he wins the $200 million lottery.