I've wondered about it a few times, but never really tried to find out.

Good question, no real answers. I do know that one of the more "popular" kids in my class became an assistant district attorney one county over and then later a district court judge.

Meanwhile, I, who was about as unpopular as can be, have never done anything great in life, or probably even admirable in the eyes of most people. Alas, maybe one day.

The "popular" ones then looked mostly pretty bad today; I mean, the years were not very kind to them IMO. Very few I could recognize straight away. Some only after their names were later captioned. Some not at all, even knowing their names. Made me feel good because if I went I would've looked ( and felt ) like a million bucks.

I would say it was their high-water mark relative to their peers back then. Today they're just another citizen plugging away like me, like most others.

(and this is based off of reports from mutual friends & what I see on facebook) pretty much hit their life pinnacle at 17-19.

Now they're 40 year old schlubs like the rest of us with ugly kids and fat spouses and a couple of divorces behind them.

The other 20% are so spectacular that they have transcended facebook and don't have an account, or actually are successful in advertising or business or whatever (or at least claim and appear to be).

When I was in high school there was a group of "popular kids" that made my life a relative hell, or at least tried to, for some unknown reason. I wasn't morbidly obese but kind of chubby, and these were all perfect bodied Adonis types.

I have to say that I chuckle inside when Isee their facebook photos and boy have they chubbed out after kiddo #5. And they used to live in the houses their parents bought and made fun of me for living in a trailer with my single mom...and I see the house or trailer they live in now. And I see their "recently divorced" status. And I see that they work at a kiosk at the mall selling cell-phones or whatever and I do chuckle inside. Because that's the things that they thought made someone a "loser" when they were 16 or 17. Now they fit their own definition of "loser". I think it's karma. I don't wish ill on people, and I don't want someone to have a bad life, but I think it's ironic when I see them with kids that are chubby like I was, or gangly like other kids were, or with bad acne like some of the kids they tortured, and I think that maybe, just maybe they see what kind of assholes they were to other people. But I don't want their kids to get bullied or harassed to make the point. And the captions to their kid's pics are "THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER IN THE WORLD" and I think "hey, my mom thought *I* was the most beautiful daughter in the world, but you called me stupid fat whore for 4 years....your daughter looks just like me. Is she a stupid fat whore to you? She fits the criteria you had at one point...."

I guess when you're 18 and your parents are affluent and you have a beach body and your bf/gf is head of football or head cheerleader, you think that's how life is always going to be. Then you get old and life gets real and there's no "head cheerleader" at your job, and no one gives a shit how many TD's you got when you were star quarterback at 17. Now you're 37 and behind on the mortgage, and you realize YOU ARE JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.

He transferred funds he didn’t actually have between bank accounts (check kiting) and ended up in federal prison in 1993 on charges of fraud. He served eighteen months at a federal prison in Carville, Louisiana, that also housed the last leper colony in the United States.

Then this p.o.s. wrote a book about his experience, trying to make a buck off the stories of these poor people confined to the leper colony.

He invited all of his former classmates, via Facebook, to attend local book signings after publication. Needless to say, I didn't go and I certainly didn't buy his book.

Some did ok, others just grew up to be bigger prats than they were in High School.

I did get a really big laugh a couple of years ago along those lines. I got an email that they were planning a class reunion and would I be willing to come help plan it. (Bear in mind that I didn't even go to the fist three or four they held because they never sent me an invite--claiming I was MIA in spite of the fact that my parents were still living in the same house where I turned five...) Anyhow, I turned up for this little meeting and the old Class President (who had a locker next to me all four years of high school) is sitting there telling me all about his "important job" with the local university and his "wife the stewardess."



He mentioned his "wife the stewardess" like six or seven times using that EXACT phrase each time. THIS is a guy who peaked in High School.

stayed in the same town, got married, had kids, got fat, and have shite jobs.
I was a nerd. I went away to school, graduated, and got the hell away from NJ as fast as I could. I have a PhD, a great husband, and am hoping (in less than 48 hours) to have a choice between two jobs. Regardless, I have a permanent job that I'll be moving to soon.

Teeheehee. Yes, I'm mean. But those folks were AWFUL in high school.

I heard our senior class president ended up as a tugboat captain in Seattle.

with few exceptions. There were a few "invisibles" who did pretty well, also.

typical teenagers driving like they were invincible. What a waste.

I know some who have become kick-ass moms and dads -- the type of people volunteer for every local fund-raiser or community event. They're people who you can always count on and look forward to seeing them. They're not rich and famous.

I'd say they did great things.

The snobbish popular kids who were at the reunion seem to have gotten a lot nicer. I was invisible in school and was still semi-invisible at the reunion, but most of that is my fault, not theirs.

There are a couple of the best and brightest who are huge "successes," but most of them are just regular folk.

I'll see if I can find it. Basically, popularity in high school is a depressingly good predictor of financial success in life.

Had a 50th reunion in September, in touch with a bunch of classmates, but off the top of my head, it appears to be 'Some did, some didn't.'

Some haven't. They're just like ordinary people. Sometimes, they have the luxury of being a big fish in a small pond in high school,, then they don't do as well out in the big, wide world.

since 1970 and all my wifes (same school 1971). So I think I can speak with some authority.

Time is a great equalizer. Popularity does not equal success in career, family, sports or other measures. The popular people have no more or less success than others. I will also predict that if you go to your reunions, the popular crowd will tend to begin to act just as they did in HS.

2 years ago at the wife's reunion, a "Popular" girl kind of blew off my wife. Then, about 45 minutes later, with the printed 'update' in her hand she rushed up as if she were my wife's best friend and asked for a job when she found out where wife worked. She became just another little desperate person.

Relax and do your own thing, Good things will happen. Don't the bastards get you down.