Back in the day, we used to look up to the big whigs in banks and law firms. People doing important business. High salary. Busy life. "Study hard and one day you just might become one of them," they said.
I don't know how true it is, but I always thought people from my background are somewhat more competitive. When all your peers come from upper-middle class families and your seniors are all well-off professionals, anything less seems like scraping by.
Yet one day, I suddenly realized -- although it doesn't feel like it -- they actually got nothing on me.
Since then, they watched our industry take over the world. My job, by most reasonable measures, is apparently more appealing than those jobs they told us to study hard for. Now, they have books for studying our interviews questions. Hah.
I realized that, like it or not, the next generation of aspiring young people would look at us the same way we used to see New York city firm lawyers, VPs at Goldman Sachs, traders in hedge funds, etc. -- impressive, but possibly quite evil.
Oh yes, we, collectively, are definitely the antagonist in the new chapter. Big Brother has never been so big and powerful.
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