The one good thing about crises such as the dotcom boom and the current Wall Street meltdown is that they weed out the mercenaries. The coders who stayed in the

The one good thing about crises such as the dotcom boom and the current Wall Street meltdown is that they weed out the mercenaries. The coders who stayed in the business after the crash were the ones who did it for the passion, not for the buck. I would say the same applies to bankers, but I never met one banker who admitted to love his job. I have met traders who loved their jobs. But not bankers. Unless by "banker" we mean anyone who works at a bank, not just investment bankers... I would argue that bankers are not particularly noble, but I am not bashing them either. Guys like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Marc Andreessen and others became rich because of their companies' IPOs, which were carried out by bankers. Not all is black & white, right?