she is educated. She was a physical therapist. Michael is not running ELQ. Valentin is the CEO. Michael runs Aurora but point taken. This is all on the writers. All they had to do was have Ned, AJ (when he was alive) etc take Michael under their wing for a few months. But I will say this happens all the time. It's nepotism.
Nina is educated and she's also a millionaire. Having Maxie as her right hand is what kept Crimson from going down like the Titanic. Unless Carly has that, this is utter BS unless she fails and tells Drew that it's not working. But it does take a skillset to run a successful magazine. Photographers and models could refuse to work with Carly due to her lack of experience as they would be concerned about their reputation.
How the heck did Jason Morgan suddenly know how to be an enforcer? No one really showed him. He asked Sonny for a job and next thing you know he's carrying a gun, menacing people, killing etc.
Nikolas came to PC when he was 16. Has he even gone to college? Perhaps he didn't have to as the first son of the first son, he is the head of the Cassadine fortune and that includes Cassadine Industries. He doesn't even really talk about it and I don't recall ever having seen him at work. I assume that he has a CEO running things for him.
I guess we blinked and missed Elizabeth and Willow going to nursing school. It takes 18-20 months.
Alexis, I can excuse. She graduated from Harvard for crying out loud. She is very intelligent. And I am not sure how many articles she is writing vs approving or denying them. She interviewed that judge as she was trying to help Drew.