liking and respecting are most often times one in the same, idiot. let's just see the benefits of a wall street job or other corporate job. I get done at around 3. if you're counting, that's only about 7 hours a day that I work. I'm no wall street guy, but I would take working 7 easy hours a day with no physical labor making six figures over working 56 hours a day doing shit work, exposing myself to the ridicules of everyone on the planet, for a "shot" at six figures if you're lucky to not get burned out before you get to level IV. You think area managers are pulling in six figs? think again. they do that for show so that you think they are pulling it in when in reality they are paying an interest only mortgage and have maxed out credit cards. Oh, that free time that you eracians always seem to lose...you can actually do something in your life that you enjoy, like having sex and not with your left hand for a change of pace. it's unbelievable to me that people defend this company and what they do so vigorously. Maybe you should read some psychology books on cult formation. Erac fits the description to a "T". but, anyway, you're right, you probably are better off than anyone on wall street. in fact, you're better than everyone. you are the MAN. You are so much the man that when your high school and college classmates tell you they are doctors, lawyers, stockbrockers, you can say, "pfff, I'm gonna buy a leer jet in 2 years renting cars." dude, everyone knows you're full of shit. the saddest thing is that you may never figure that out.