Only someone who already knows and likes you is likely to give you a good job with modest relevant experience.

We're in an era in which we want to believe people have roughly equal potential. IQ gives the lie to that.

Education isn't a magic pill. There is no magic pill. But the closest we have is practical expertise and relentless drive.

You might want to keep trying to rise, using a path that builds on your natural strengths: sales, analysis, managing people, whatever, and keep asking for honest feedback. When you reach the point at which it feels clear you've topped out, revise your job description or take a step back. Up is not the only way.

Answering ads rarely works for career changers because you have no experience in the job for which you're applying.

Liberalism's key principle is to redistribute wealth from the haves to the have nots. That takes money from the entities with the greatest potential to improve society (for example, corporations that create jobs, invent life-saving medicines, etc.) and redistributes it to the people, whom on average, will never contribute more to society than to hold a menial job.

If you have an ability, you want to exercise it, not anesthetize it.