Unlike Frey's past heroes, though, he's not a Wall Street hotshot but a paper products sales rep trapped in a dead-end job.

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If you know somebody who's caught in a dead-end job and afraid he can't afford the classes necessary to get better jobs for the rest of his life, tell him not to give up -- he can go on to college.

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He was stuck, not in a dead-end job but on the back road going 45 mph while many of his peers zoomed along the expressway in excess of 80 mph, and even faster for those who had learned to exceed the speed limit with impunity.

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Who hasn't been ambitious and in search of a mentor like Wall Street's young stockbroker Bud Fox, or frustrated in a dead-end job like American Beauty's suburban ad executive Lester Burnham, or scared of being fired like the desperate real estate salesmen in Glengarry Glen Ross?

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