I think the statement is a little bit far from reality. While personal effort and determination are crucial for achieving goals, societal, familial, and systemic factors significantly shape an individual’s path and success. And a person has to have an environment for job life after school. Someone can get help from their friends and family about anything about their future job life.
The fact that we live in a social life as humans approximately our entire lives are affected by social life. Because of that, the job we select may vary. For example, some jobs have social biases like garbagemen because people look down upon them. So people may be concerned about selecting this job. An another subject is family support. A person’s family support and their economic state can direct their educational life. If someone has a rich family they can go to private schools and they can go to some universities with less effort than poor students do. Or if there is a person in the family who does the same profession as the student wants their family can help to student to rise in their both academic and professional life. Some families are helping and motivating their children to select their dream job but some families are forcing their children to select specific professions. That concludes with people not wanting to work or fight with their families. Like family friends are useful in jobs because they can teach how to do the job. With family members or with your friends you can start a business to accomplish something and gain money from things you are interested in. In real life Unfortunately, some racism cases are happening and because of that some races may not hire other races or some people do racism to some religions because of their biased view despite past events.
In conclusion, ‘’ The human being can get to where they want to be through their own efforts’’ statement is pretty wrong and situations like having a supportive family or having someone who is doing your dream profession in your family or friend group is very beneficial.