[diceduckmonk]

I was constantly failing classes in high school, but I ended up as an engineer at FANG company without breaking a sweat. My cofounder didn’t finish high school and worked as an HFT trader.

People here who are judging people based on their high school accomplishments must be coming from a sheltered middle class background.

[mlrtime]

>People here who are judging

Shouldn't be surprising, in any group there will be a normal distribution. A person that didn't finish high school and succeeding isn't shocking, but falls way to the right of the distribution.

Of course they exist, but until you find one yourself one would think the same.

[kamaal]

This works only because a fairly no-license environment we have in software development and stock market investments.

It won't work in places like Medicine or Army, where human lives are at stake.

There is a progression your have to work through to get to serious places, else bad things can happen to both you and many people around you.