Some thoughts relevant for considering career choices:
Ron Baker, the [non]billable hour: Attorneys Aren't Knowledge Workers: "When you consider the metrics used by most firms to measure their team members, they all come from the Industrial Revolution's command-and-control hierarchies (realization, utilization, billable hours, etc)."
Douglas Rushkoff: Fun AT Work vs Fun AS Work: "By making the "fun" at work extraneous - external and unrelated - to the boring and dull work that people are actually doing, it only exacerbates the problem. It's like giving kids dessert as a "reward" for finishing the main part of the meal. Why do they need a reward? Because the main meal tastes terrible!"
Jill's Notebook: After the law firm "After working for the law firm, I learned that it might be wise to be wary of organizations bottom-heavy with young, energetic people and run by a few older people with a lot of money and/or power."