But when I asked a group of them if they ever felt like workaholics, their faces lit up and they all started talking at once. And we call these our tool bags. He held up his satchel. These super-accomplished kids aren't working so hard because they are compelled to. They are facing, it still appears, the sweetest job market in the nation's history.
Investment banks flood the campus looking for hires.
Princeton also offers a multitude of post-graduation service jobs in places like China and Africa. Everyone I spoke to felt confident that he or she could get a good job after graduation. Nor do these students seem driven by some Puritan work ethic deep in their cultural memory. It's not the stick that drives them on, it's the carrot. Opportunity lures them.