I have no degree. I attended exactly two of the three semesters of college for which I paid. I make a very nice living running servers and writing code at my company. Before this, I have worked in construction and as the guy under your car in one of those quick oil change places. I&#x27;ve been an outboard mechanic. The world owed me nothing. I have made my own way and earned everything that I&#x27;ve gotten. I respect hard work and I understand that I will sometimes fail. I learn something from every experience.<p>I&#x27;m sorry but your attitude here that the world owes you _anything_ just goes to further prove my point. Life is not fair. It never has been and never will be. You can sit there feeling sorry for yourself because the world treated you unfairly...for which will get you absolutely nothing...or you can go out there and do whatever you need to do in order to make it through this day so you can try for a better day tomorrow. The onus is on you and not the world. You want something better then show the world that you will work for it.<p>Two things come to mind for me in this:<p>1. The &quot;younger generation&quot; is going to have to learn to take responsibility for their failures as well as successes. There seems to be a real problem with the former.<p>2. To use the words my father repeated to me almost daily during my teenage years when we worked together: &quot;If you aren&#x27;t going to give it 120% in whatever you do, don&#x27;t even bother getting out of bed.&quot;