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Why is that so many of the smartest people in Australia get to their 30s and realise that doing everything 'right' has made for an existence they never really wanted? How is that so many of our best and brightest get sucked into being corporate lawyers and management consultants and living lives of quiet desperation?The Pinstriped Prison is a funny, frightening look at h Why is that so many of the smartest people in Australia get to their 30s and realise that doing everything 'right' has made for an existence they never really wanted?
How is that so many of our best and brightest get sucked into being corporate lawyers and management consultants and living lives of quiet desperation?The Pinstriped Prison is a funny, frightening look at how big firms seduce brilliant students into joining the corporate world, with all its perks and excesses, and at what happens next. Crazy work hours swallow these young professionals' lives, just as dry cleaning, taxis and take-away food swallow their large salaries. And by the time they discover their work is fundamentally boring, they are usually captives of the debts they've incurred to get a lifestyle that will compensate them for their life.What does it mean for us as a nation when so many of our cleverest people are siphoned off from careers in which they could be doing something useful?
The Pinstriped Prison is a smart, witty look at the consequences of selling your soul. This is an incredibly one-sided point of view, but it does its job very well in expressing the negativities of corporate life, particularly for management consulting and law.
As someone thinking about the future, I found that this book offered a completely different viewpoint to what I was hearing from current lawyers, and the semi-fresh perspective is definitely absorbing to read about. The writing style flows very easily, although the content is very repetitive - the book could have half the n This is an incredibly one-sided point of view, but it does its job very well in expressing the negativities of corporate life, particularly for management consulting and law.
As someone thinking about the future, I found that this book offered a completely different viewpoint to what I was hearing from current lawyers, and the semi-fresh perspective is definitely absorbing to read about. The writing style flows very easily, although the content is very repetitive - the book could have half the number of pages it does now, and it takes a very long time and too many words to give the simple answer to 'How overachievers get trapped in corporate jobs they hate.' Overall though, it's a very interesting book, and I definitely think it's worth reading for any aspiring 'high status' corporate workers (law, management consulting, investment banking), as it provides you with a really assertive perspective and critical comments you might not hear from someone else. It was funny and easy to read, while still putting across an important message.Although I know it was the opposite of the intended effect, at points during the book I found myself feeling jealous of the described high achievers, wishing that I could be that successful, so openly acknowledged as elite.Most of the time I felt proud of my current position, as though I have reached this point through my individual strength of will and rebellion against the corporate system, rather than I loved it! Although I related to some of the things the author wrote about, most of the book just felt like listening to a friend whinge, and whinge, and whinge some more. I just wanted to sit the author down and say, 'We get it - you hate big corporate law firms, banks, and management consulting firms.
WE GET IT' Not being an overachieving Anglo-Saxon private school kid from a wealthy family, I couldn't really appreciate the authors comments about this demographic being tricked into joining big firms eith Although I related to some of the things the author wrote about, most of the book just felt like listening to a friend whinge, and whinge, and whinge some more. I just wanted to sit the author down and say, 'We get it - you hate big corporate law firms, banks, and management consulting firms. WE GET IT' Not being an overachieving Anglo-Saxon private school kid from a wealthy family, I couldn't really appreciate the authors comments about this demographic being tricked into joining big firms either. So what can I say about this book? It's a humorous and at times accurate opinion of a person with no experience working as an actual lawyer, investment banker, or management consultant. Definitely amusing, but not a book to be taken too seriously.
While Lisa Pryor had great intentions in writing this book, I feel like it missed its mark. What I was hoping for was some kind of expose on big corporations, and solutions to how they can make lives better for their employees. Instead, it felt like Pryor had one bad experience in a law firm and decided to write a book about it based on this limited evidence. The subject matter covered is too broad, there are too many generalisations made and the the tone is overly soap-box-y. The whole thing fe While Lisa Pryor had great intentions in writing this book, I feel like it missed its mark. What I was hoping for was some kind of expose on big corporations, and solutions to how they can make lives better for their employees.
Instead, it felt like Pryor had one bad experience in a law firm and decided to write a book about it based on this limited evidence. The subject matter covered is too broad, there are too many generalisations made and the the tone is overly soap-box-y. The whole thing felt like an introduction to some meatier discussion and more focussed stories of people's experiences, but it never quite got there. The writing itself is quite easy to get through (provided the tone doesn't get to you), so maybe worth a perusal if you have time - but don't expect to be blown away.
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Click on the cover image above to read some pages of this book!Why is that so many of the smartest people in Australia get to their 30s and realise that doing everything 'right' has made for an existence they never really wanted? How is that so many of our best and brightest get sucked into being corporate lawyers and management consultants and living lives of quiet desperation?
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The Pin Striped Prison is a funny, frightening look at how big firms seduce brilliant students into joining the corporate world, with all its perks and excesses, and at what happens next. Crazy work hours swallow these young professionals' lives, just as dry cleaning, taxis and take-away food swallow their large salaries. And by the time they discover their work is fundamentally boring, they are usually captives of the debts they've incurred to get a lifestyle that will compensate them for their life. What does it mean for us as a nation when so many of our cleverest people are siphoned off from careers in which they could be doing something useful? The Pin Striped Prison is a smart, witty look at the consequences of selling your soul.
