Sure, Elite Can Get Away with Spelling, Grammatical, Punctuation Errrors - Don't Try that in Job Search, Dating and More

It was F. Scott Fitzgerald who nailed it. He observed that the rich are different from the rest of us ordinary strivers. 

One way that they're different is that they are not bound to play in the middle class sandbox of correct spelling, grammar and punctuation. Evidence of that is presented by The Wall Street Journal in the communications of Jeffrey Epstein, Jack Dorsey and David Ellison. They float above giving a darn about what such errors could signal about them.

But, as a coach I warn job searchers as well as those interested in marrying up that option isn't open to them. "Proper English" or the standardized rules continue to function as socioeconomic class markers. That ranges from how you will be perceived in a client-facing role to what his/her parents will think of you as a future in-law.

During grade school and high school we oldest of the Boomers were being prepped for going to college and having a role in the coming economic expansion by having those communications "rules" drilled into us. In addition, introduced were lessons to enhance our vocabulary. The English teachers were on the front lines of launching us first-generation Americans into the middle class. Relentlessly they corrected our deviations from the usage of the professional class and polite society.

That has become even more important in the white collar struggle to get, hold and move on to better work. Both AI bots and human screeners pick up those usage errors and knock you out of the running. 

No, the playing field is not even. Those not elite can't flaunt breaking the rules. Or loop into the zone of influence not even knowing them. In this economy of scarcity we who need to earn a living have to consider ourselves back into Miss Irving's writing class. There a paper with even one error in usage was rejected. The message was: If that happened to you more than once, you risked "being left behind."

Success is a mental game. Failure comes from being done in by the “committee” in your head.

Together, we liberate your thinking. Then we change your story. And, unleash success. Meanwhile, we focus on bringing in income. That puts you in a position of strength.

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