re: Low standards hurt the average/slightly above average than anyone else?

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I'm hard pressed to say that I wouldn't have been better being flunked out after my 1st year of law school as previous years were so used to.

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I was mistaken, you are still blaming others. Your situation is your own fault. You can either keep wallowing in your own pity party, or you can remember you are in control of your life. Get a job as a manager of a fast food place, or use your lawyer skills for something.

I have been an open book on graduating with a terrible GPA, anxiety issues, and no experience. I was a mess, I was looked at as inferior at job fairs, I would put out 40 resumes a week with no response. I finally had a company who showed interest, just to not talk to me after the interview. I finally got a job, and I busted my arse to show them I was talented and valuable. My life has got much better.

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You have a law degree and can't find a job? Seriously?

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I can find "jobs" easily. I can't find jobs that will be helpful with the debt i incurred to reach my level of education as.

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was mistaken, you are still blaming others. Your situation is your own fault

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I agree to a point but that is also the question of my OP.

Yes I could have worked harder and gotten a great job. My fault is mine. I don't blame others.

Hindsight being 20/20 though and in a general sense wouldn't most people be better off with harder standards? To either prove you belong or make a different choice earlier?

My generation & the current one seems to be on a "adulthood begins at 30" plan bad I don't think that is the best option.

It's all about who you know

Can't buy a degree in hustle.

I kind of agree with you. I had to work my arse off at a competitive high school just to get Bs. I ended up going to LSU for financial reasons and the standards were not demanding. I ended up developing horrible habits and never had a chance at the law school I got into based on grades I didn't even need to earn.

If you have a law degree and can't find a good job then you must be the most incompetent person in the world

I don't know to what extent it's standards, it's getting your arse kicked good and hard. You can have the best parents in the world who tell you all the right things, but you never learn to respect failure and the hard work needed to avoid it until you've experienced it yourself.

It's being sheltered -- not just from material scarcity or social adversity, but we're talking living in a bubble and being afraid to try something you might fail at. Kids who coast through school without challenging extracurriculars, whether you're talking sports or the quiz bowl team, don't learn what it really means to fail and what it takes to avoid it.

Doc Fenton also said it upthread, you gotta have a direction too. You can't ever truly experience failure in a given direction if you never commit to any given direction. Aimlessness is another big problem, more for college students than high school or post-undergrad.

I'm not sure to what extent higher standards help with that, because I don't think academic standards are where most people get their asses kicked early. It's in extracurriculars. And costs are a lot more effective than standards in fighting aimlessness; when you simply can't afford to dick around anymore, you'll shite or get off the pot real fast. Higher standards are more likely just to frustrate aimless people without actually fixing the problem, which does no one any good.