Steinbeck the voice of Millennial Businesspeople

I’ve always loved Steinbeck, but it’s crazy how much still to this day his books resonate with me, a millennial business man.

I’m the first from my family to go to college. I’ve worked for large financial companies, that now I see people I worked with be promoted to Manager or Director, and reading The Winter of Our Discontent as Ethan is talking about he could have been a Corporal in the Army but is that what he wanted resonates so much.

I know work for a Big 4 accounting firm and I’m just a guy there, and reading about Ethan trying to decide between the ethical thing (not so much with me but I get it) plus the family thing hits so far home. I could be working crazy hours and forget my family, but choose not to.

This is just a rant because no one else I know reads stuff like this and it blows my mind how relevant it still is today.