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Voluntary Corporate Slavery? |
| Message Name: |
Riddle me this |
| Date Posted: |
11/10/2001 |
| Message: |
I've noticed that at Wellesley (smartest girls hands-down) and other elite schools, people flock like intoxicated dummies to Economics so they can then join the ranks of millions of frustrated, overschmoozing I-bankers. It seems odd that kids who on the whole are smart would espouse a career in which charm is valued over intellectual depth, and spend their lives shackled to the fickle opinions of their greedy supervisors. Other avenues are so much more intellectually stimulating (teaching, medicine, law to some extent) but the path is longer but (I think) well worth it. So I ask you, book smart children of America, what really lures you into consulting and i-banking?
Other question: Is it a very middle-class peculiarity to gravitate towards I-banking. I went to a private school with the kids of European nobles (no joke) and African ambassadors and just well off people and there was never any mention of consulting.
So hit me back; I'm curious.
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