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Disappointed to actual grief that their moron fraternity brother financial advisors have turned out to be idiots.
Most of the people I went to business school with were uncreative ass-kissing sycophants who did everything right and in unison so that they got their spot on the gravy train.
But as for creativity, original thinking, discernment, a range of knowledge beyond the book crap, these people were largely interchangeable, like the Borg, clueless and contagious.
They were smart and ambitious all right. All they did was work.
But to come up with answers that a business needs to thrive and exceed its competition, a person has to be a whole, widely experienced, free thinker. That means taking time off to enjoy life, reading what interests you that is not being fed to you, going beyond and above, taking time to smell roses. Being HUMAN.
There was a small contingent of REAL PEOPLE in my b-school class. We tended to hang together.
But yeah, I do not blame you for seeing business school grads as imbecilic dolts.
But you can bet, you and I and the other unconventionals STILL make less bux than these tinker toy interchangeable robots. Companies hire these clowns, who hire people they can relate to, which means collective mediocrity.
It means travesties like Circuit City unceremoniously throwing out 5000 of its best sales personnel and MONTHS later declaring bankruptcy because they are against the ropes.
Folks, this is the types of people you entrust your life savings with. We would all do well to take heed and begin to stash out savings in surefire places rather than handing it to companies whose largest success is in using marketing to convince us all that they are smarter than the idiots next business over.
