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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]+1 I read that nauseating NY piece, too.

I hate what this area has become.  Students aspiring to be MBB consultants instead of nonprofit workers.  FinTech instead of medicine.  BigLaw instead of ADAs or DoJ.  I’m not even that old but I feel angry and resentful, missing the more innocent days of the nineties.  [/quote]

What really gets me is that they aren’t going to medical school, engineering, urban planning, PhD biology programs … I don’t care so much that they aren’t going to “do gooder” jobs, but they aren’t doing *anything* enriching to themselves (other than $$) or society. What a waste of brainpower and the privilege of a top college education. [/quote]

These days, many more kids who choose those schools have been pushed and trained to get into those schools for their own sake and prestige; in other words they have been trained to grab the next brass ring because they are entitled to it and it makes THEM look better, not because it enables them to do something useful for the world. After all, you can do the latter from ANYWHERE often for less money and while having more fun. Someone is teaching the likes of OP that McKinsey is some prize job because their morals and priorities and even their entire world view is completely off.[/quote]

But part of the training is to learn how to write essays and engage in "service" that makes you look like someone who wants to be useful to the world.[/quote]

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