Ignoring the flowery text here.. this is pretty spot-on. My brother in law is an amazing people person. He's able to convince anyone of anything. He always "kno

Ignoring the flowery text here.. this is pretty spot-on. My brother in law is an amazing people person. He's able to convince anyone of anything. He always "knows a guy" and "is that person's second cousin". Never waits on line at a bar, and always the life of the party. This guy was born for sales. Perhaps unsurprisingly he also was terrible in college. Just did not work with his brain. He dropped out, worked some odd jobs, settled in to working a tree company, cutting down trees. Dangerous work to say the least. He finally went back to school and took like 2 classes a semester and graduated with whatever degree he could string together from the local college, and it took him ages, I think he spent 7 years total in undergrad. It was affordable because it was just some local state school. 2 months after graduation? He's a sales rep at a B2B software firm. A year later he's the top of his sales group. His potential is huge now, and that door was firmly shut to him before he graduated. College, for him, was just a piece of paper he needed, and his life took a dramatic turn when he got it.