I worked at a publicly traded company with a $20B market cap and got the opportunity to ask the CEO a handful of questions with some peers. At one point somebody asked him what he did for fun, and the dude just froze. He said his job was going back and forth between figuring out future strategy and flying all over the world to either glad-hand or soothe upset customers. I saw sadness and desperation in his eyes as he said that didn’t really have time for fun. That made me never want that kind of responsibility.

I spent 15 years working corporate middle management and I can attest that many of the higher ups are there because of who they’re related to or who they went to college with. Most of them are borderline morons, as well.