> your salary and your expenses do not need to correlate, so don't let them. Wishing it doesn't make it so. In a previous life I applied to a business consult

> your salary and your expenses do not need to correlate, so don't let them. Wishing it doesn't make it so. In a previous life I applied to a business consultancy in Britain. (Ernst & Young? Andersen? Can't remember. It was long ago.) To get you into the mood, they had a little quiz on their website. One question went like this: "You have worked 12 hours on a report that is due the day after tomorrow and are tired. Your officemates want to go for beers. (This is Britain, and "beers" means many beers.) Will you join them?" Of course you join them says the website, you are supposed to work hard and party hard. These are the social pressures that michaelochurch talks about, they are very real, and what you do and where you live will affect your chances of promotion. For an insight I do recommend Karen Ho's "Liquidated", it's an anthropological study of Wall Street.