I want to be a banker, I said. Isn’t there some way I could be a banker?

He sighed and settled back in his chair. All right, he said. I think I understand why you don’t want to be a professional musician. But I think you’re under a slight misapprehension about banking.

I said Oh really? Why is that?

He said: You’re not the first by a long shot. We see this sort of thing all the time in young people, they think banking is about making a lot of money.

I said Oh really?

He said The thing is, Ephraim, we’re really not looking for people who just want to earn a lot of money. We’re looking for people with a genuine interest in banking.