i threatened my uni president's pride by calling his expansion of online "core" classes a fraud on the taxpayer in meetings, the atlantic, elsewhere, and...wound up with a non-renewed contract. but he definitely hates me. they fired him recently, for taking kickbacks from that
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if your father owns a business, or your uncle holds a key position in a union, you can enter those fields without any university networking. and you can remove the university networking function, and it'll be replaced by cheaper ways of doing the same thing
perhaps, though it certainly doesn't mark me as such. i work in a field defined by industry and trade-specific certifications, as does my brother. if anything, my background is an impediment, so i say little about it. i just deliver on the deliverables