There's a difference between mindlessly slogging away at an equally mindless job, and working for a time at something which may be grunt work, but having goals and ambitions that you're working toward.
Makes all the difference in the world.
That's what I did. And that, obviously, is what Barack Obama did. I don't think either his father (who left the marriage early on) or his mother were wealthy, so Obama had to work for what he got.
Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and the Harvard Law School, and getting into schools like that in the first place is an achievement. At Harvard, he became president of the Harvard Law Review, not something that gets handed out to just any yahoo that asks for it, you have to earn it by demonstrating that you can handle the job. Then he became a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Which is a pretty damned good prerequisite for becoming President of the United States. Not every president has been that well qualified!
Not bad for a bi-racial kid whose father deserted the family early on and was raised by a single mother.
Krinkle, you're like a Chihuahua yapping at a lion!