<p>I retract. I might have offended some inadvertently. For that apologise. And I did not intend to put down any profession or career path. And I have been overzealous in advancing my own position. For that also I apologise. </p>
<p>Nauru, I think you can more easily understand the English obsession with the City or whatever if you are aware that City, for the last few decades, has been the occupation of choice for sons of the landed aristocracy in their twenties (taking up increasings share amidst the decline of the Army and Foreign Service as prestige occupations). Even a dapper chap named Friedrich von Bismarck worked in the City for a while during the 80’s. It is not even just a money thing; it is, unfortunately, the symbiosis of prestige, class, and wealth for the British middle classes (I mean middle classes in the Commonwealth, not American, sense), who of course, aspire to be like the landed classes. (a particular Briticism, not applicable to the New World). </p>
<p>calcruzer, I suspected the same for a long time. Having been in both the public and prep school systems, I have been struck by how the appropriate environment (prep) can stimulate even the most mediocre to financial success. I found notable that Yale managed to produce all of its billionaire alums purely through undergrad with no Yale graduate attendance whatsoever. Speaks for the strength of institutions like Skulls & Bones and Scrolls & Key, i guess. </p>
<p>To be quite honest, my gut instinct is that management, as a career, is dead in the water. But that is purely my personal opinion, and I will not argue for it as it is such a subjective question, and gut instincts are just that, gut instincts.</p>