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Is being an executive a matter of having the money to pay for the college degrees corporate wants you to have, or is there some finesse to it? Can I climb up the ladder from the clerk's desk, or do you literally have to have parents with college money?

>> No.1809598

promotions are based on reputation and character not qualifications or performance. Hard work doesnt get you a promotion, it ensurers that you never get a promotion, a good worker stays a worker.

>> No.1809674

>>1809598

It doesn't work like that, you need to have experience to be an executive.

>>1809114
Best way to become an executive is to get a finance/accounting/business related degree.

Idk about america but in the UK you can get well known accounting/finance related professional qualifications for free if you do apprenticeships.

>> No.1809728

>>1809598
Reputation matters and it's largely based on your past successful outcomes. People who are shit rarely make it past regional manager level. Once people become directors/VPs and such they've usually got a long history of results in addition to being well thought of. If you can get results by being a lazy conniving piece of shit/diversity hire/have a velvet crotch I guess you'll make it but most people tend to work their asses off for a decade + to get there.

>> No.1809758

>>1809674
>Best way to become an executive is to get a finance/accounting/business related degree.
No, the best way to become an executive is effective networking. At the executive level, no one gives a shit what you did in college.

>> No.1809887

>>1809758

Well a college degree is a good way to get a headstart in your career.

>Networking
People aren't going to let you become an executive if you have no skills to show for it.

>> No.1809932

>>1809114
Yes, lets poor 60-80 hours a week into becoming the model candidate for executiveship. Or you could spend that time building passive income streams so that you make money while your on vacation.

>> No.1809940
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1809940

The ladder to become an exec is very attainable. It's currently my goal.

I graduated with a marketing degree in the spring semester and landed a job working next to the VP of Sales at a leading global Saas company.

I got the job based off my interview skills, my high school door to door selling experience and my part time construction job while I was in college.

I suggest studying epistemology and ontology. Helped me a great deal in my interviews.

>> No.1810009

>>1809887
You say that as if there are specific skills associated with upper management.

>> No.1810039

>>1810009
There really are. Basically every conversation at that level has the potential to fuck your future.

>> No.1811579

>>1809758
To be fair a lot of executives do have accounting/finance degrees.