"A salary is nothing more than time you spend in a structured fashion for somebody else. When you don’t own your own time, no matter what the paycheck, you are

"A salary is nothing more than time you spend in a structured fashion for somebody else. When you don’t own your own time, no matter what the paycheck, you are not free and you will not be happy." That's a touch overgeneralised, forgiveable in a kid straight out of college but still worthy of an eyeroll. Not everyone itches to throw off the shackles of employment for a startup, and I wish startup folk would wrap their heads around this somehow and stop with the condescension. I'm curious about the comment 'especially onerous for me': are you saying that you have massive student loan debt that you need to cover, and that this is uncommon among your fellow prospective i-banker students?