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Message: [QUOTE="Shark58, post: 1659984, member: 4746"] its called a joke [IMG]http://www.pbase.com/weed30/image/58390737.jpg[/IMG] I don't care who wore letters or not, but here is some of my real life truth I was a brother of a national house at 2 schools, 1 being Syracuse. the other was in a major city with a few other chapters nearby. Not only are some of my brothers among my closest friends, 2 of my attorneys, my insurance brojer and one of my doctors, but several members of my orig house are literally captains of industry (one is CEO of a major TV production company, another controls a company that controls the Kardashians, another owns a major cosmetic company, one is a business partner of LeBron and other NBA stars and married perhaps the most successful businesswoman this side of Oprah, one an EVP for Trump who has been making the rounds on the political talk shows the past few months, an old summer roommate who is now a multiple Emmy winning exec producer for a sports broadcasting network, another is an EVP at a major record label, etc.) Its very fair to say that I am among the least successful, and I'm just a VP at a publicly traded company. In my career I have done millions of dollars of transactions with fraternity brothers (both from my houses and others), and have facilitated at least 10X that for others, and/or helped with connections and resources, with no personal stake. I've helped over a dozen people find jobs, just because I had a brother in their industry and could pick up the phone. As someone else mentioned above, I also have a network of friends from coast to coast, and some overseas. If I happen to find myself in another city with nothing to do, I can pretty easily dig up a real friend. I randomly run into my brothers at sporting events, concerts, when vacationing or just walking around NYC. Hell, I've even avoided jail because of the letters I wore (long story but the cop turned out to be a brother from Temple) When my wife and I decided to start our website as a side business, we had no real knowledge of where to even begin, let alone design and build the website, company, marketing plan etc. I am/was a very different kind of "suit." who didn't know a LAMP stack from a lamb chop. Luckily, I had network of resources from the tech world to tap into, many of whom are my brothers. This includes a former exec of both Google & FB who helped with everything from the initial business plan to nitty gritty UI/UX stuff, a venture capitalist who advised on legal structure and hooked us up with an incubator program and its resources, and one of the aforementioned attorneys who handles all our IP work. Hate on the greek system all you want. there is a tons to truly hate about it. also look at the reality that it does a lot of good. the above was just about how it gave me a set of professional and pretty cool personal connections that could never be duplicated with being a brother. this says nothing of all the personal growth, real kick ass fun times, and pretty fine looking women I used to "know" all because of my crew. Not saying it couldn't be replicated, just saying that for me it was a great path and its been one hell of a ride. Now, how do I get down from this soapbox? [/QUOTE]

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