I keep thinking about your essay. So many of the things you said ring true to me personally or they sound like what I have heard from others. The example of your boss essentially telling you that it is the firm or Ultimate, sounds exactly like what my husband, a program director of a medical residency at the time, said to one of the advanced students( residents). From the younger perspective, it seems very different than from the older established perspective ( if you want to be the best and be here you have to make a choice). At some point all professionals seem to need to make a choice. You have to give it all, or not. Maybe that is just life. Maybe young professionals who can't or don't want to give it all  to the job should not be on their "Bay St".  Maybe people who want more out of life need to be somewhere else where they can get that. Thank you for your thoughts. Loved it.