So it came as a bit of a shock, when I attended my 15th reunion last summer, to learn how many of my former classmates weren’t overjoyed by their professional lives — in fact, they were miserable. I heard about one fellow alum who had run a large hedge fund until being sued by investors (who also happened to be the fund manager’s relatives). Another person had risen to a senior role inside one of the nation’s most prestigious companies before being savagely pushed out by corporate politics. Another had learned in the maternity ward that her firm was being stolen by a conniving partner.
因此,当我去年夏天参加第15次同学会时,我感到有些震惊。因为我发现,以前的同学中有许多人对自己的职业生活并没有欣喜若狂——事实上,他们很痛苦。我听说,一位校友曾经营一支大型对冲基金,直到他被投资人起诉(而那些人正好是他的亲戚)。另一个人曾在美国最负盛名的公司之一担任高级职务,后来则被公司政治无情地挤走了。还有一个在产房里得知,她的公司被一个阴险的合伙人偷走了。
Those were extreme examples, of course. Most of us were living relatively normal, basically content lives. But even among my more sanguine classmates, there was a lingering sense of professional disappointment. They talked about missed promotions, disaffected children and billable hours in divorce court. They complained about jobs that were unfulfilling, tedious or just plain bad. One classmate described having to invest $5 million a day — which didn’t sound terrible, until he explained that if he put only $4 million to work on Monday, he had to scramble to place $6 million on Tuesday, and his co-workers were constantly undermining one another in search of the next promotion. It was insanely stressful work, done among people he didn’t particularly like. He earned about $1.2 million a year and hated going to the office.
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