Finished reading The Running of the Bulls earlier this week. Basically it tracks a group of Wharton undergrads as they go to class, apply for internships, interview for real jobs and then finally start their way in the business world. It's an easy read that gives you a good view of a completely different world (assuming you didn't go to a top undergrad business school).
What I took out of it is that I'm glad I didn't go the Wall Street route. Killing yourself in school for four years all for the reward of getting a high-stress job from sunup to sundown while living in a shoebox sized apartment in Manhattan doesn't really appeal to me. Indeed, one girl profiled in the book, who earned an astounding 3.9 GPA, put in well over 100 hours a week as a summer analyst with Lazard Frères. Once she got hired on full-time after graduation she stressed about her exhorbitant rent in NYC but soon figured out it wasn't a problem because she worked so much that her only other expenses were getting her hair done and lunch. She literally didn't have time to shop and the firm picked up her breakfast and dinner tabs since she ate at the office.
Um, no thanks.
What I took out of it is that I'm glad I didn't go the Wall Street route. Killing yourself in school for four years all for the reward of getting a high-stress job from sunup to sundown while living in a shoebox sized apartment in Manhattan doesn't really appeal to me. Indeed, one girl profiled in the book, who earned an astounding 3.9 GPA, put in well over 100 hours a week as a summer analyst with Lazard Frères. Once she got hired on full-time after graduation she stressed about her exhorbitant rent in NYC but soon figured out it wasn't a problem because she worked so much that her only other expenses were getting her hair done and lunch. She literally didn't have time to shop and the firm picked up her breakfast and dinner tabs since she ate at the office.
Um, no thanks.
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