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why would you put "non target top 40 school" on your resume?

You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake, son.
 
DoubleTroubledidn't waste my time reading the link, but if Nef is right that is the dumbest thing i've ever heard, along with the term "non-target" itself
lol, its obviously to protect his anonymity on this board but still give us a reasonable idea of where he stands...next time click the link, champ
 
Mxlol, its obviously to protect his anonymity on this board but still give us a reasonable idea of where he stands...next time click the link, champ

That's not really that obvious for two reasons:

  1. It is written in as text. I can believe the OP is stupid enough to include that line in his resume. Especially because something is blacked out below it.

  2. If he is really worried about keeping anonymity, he would have blacked out his name at the top.

You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake, son.
 

Sorry, I am not some college kid that spends his time ogling the CEOs of banks.

According to your logic, I better forget everything I know and have learned about finance and the economy because I don't have CEO names memorized. This guy has not even been the CEO of CIti for three years and you worship him.

Do you know who Paul S. Otellini, Léo Apotheker or Bob Dudley are? No, you don't. But I am sure you will pretend to know them after you google them.

You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake, son.
 
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Nefarious-Sorry, I am not some college kid that spends his time ogling the CEOs of banks.

According to your logic, I better forget everything I know and have learned about finance and the economy because I don't have CEO names memorized. This guy has not even been the CEO of CIti for three years and you worship him.

Do you know who Paul S. Otellini, Léo Apotheker or Bob Dudley are? No, you don't. But I am sure you will pretend to know them after you google them.

This logic is insufficient.

No, I had no idea who those guys were. But, after googling all those guys, I found out they're all executives at tech and oil companies. Why would we know them? If you asked that question on a tech or oil board I'm almost positive people would know them without having to search. Because this is a forum for finance, I have no idea what you were trying to prove here.

Also, because financial markets are driven by (among other things) the news and the big players, a requisite knowledge of who Vikram Pandit isn't some fucking unreasonable task. Considering he's the CEO of a government-backed bank, I would say he's a person of interest.

Finally, this is an internet forum. If you're not some college kid that spends his time ogling the CEOs of banks, then you're gonna have a miserable time here.

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