[Livia]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Honestly Livia, come on, if you're not careful you'll end up a caricature like arista! Are you saying that anyone who doesn't rise from min-wage staff to CEO of a multi-billion $ company is where they are because they have been "resting on their laurels"?

It's unrealistic. It happens - but rarely - and it can ONLY be rarely, because a relatively small and finite number of these high-paying positions exist at all. Certainly not enough for every hard-working fresh-faced newstart to get there. There are obviously other elements involved. Personal gifts like exceptional charisma, something that not everyone can learn no matter how hard they work, would be one element. Another is simple dumb luck and that's something that, for some reason, people just don't like to admit. Being at the right place, working in the right store, getting to know the right people who happen to be there, all play a part for "ladder climbers".

I'm saying you don't have to be a minimum wage drudge forever. You can better yourself, you can get qualified to do better things, you can work hard. Or... you can stay in a dead-end, minimum wage job and moan about it. The only person who can change your circumstances is yourself.