Pryor describes the culture and narrow choices that occur in reality from school, to university, to the first years of university for Sydney’s upper middle class bright children. The arguments are strongest around the core – which is an essay about corporate malaise within the very well paid jobs in Sydney’s corporations and law firms – particularly amongst the twenty somethings, Lisa Pryor’s contemporaries. This book came out of a newspaper column, and it does show. ![]() ![]() She started a law degree, but ended up a (less well paid) journalist, and this book is the story of what became of her peers – high scoring high school students who ended up as lawyers and investment bankers, because the law firms and Investment Bankers have set up a superb strategy for capturing graduates like her. Lisa Pryor is a columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald who got 100% in her HSC (school leaving exams). Today’s Book Review is The Pinstriped Prison : How overachievers get trapped in corporate jobs they hate, by Lisa Pryor.
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