>At this firm, people believed that success indeed required ideal-worker-like devotion. The word "success" seems like a misnomer here. Success is not possible

>At this firm, people believed that success indeed required ideal-worker-like devotion. The word "success" seems like a misnomer here. Success is not possible under these conditions. Killing yourself for transient business projects designed and managed by others, for the adulation of peers whose only accomplishments in life are, similarly, killing themselves for transient business projects designed by others, is no success at all. Perhaps the monetary compensation is decent. But what are you going to do with that money?