Andrew Giangola, a spokesman for McKinsey & Co., a major consulting firm, simply notes that the shift in interest among top business school graduates away from start-ups over the last year speaks for itself.
The same week that Smith's op-ed ran, a panel about steering college graduates away from careers in Wall Street as held at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.
As a result, he was highly motivated and started writing In the Heights, a show about his Washington Heights neighbourhood, before he graduated, slogging away at it for the next six years while working as a supply teacher to pay the rent, until, in what he still regards as a miracle, it came to Broadway.
First, the high salaries offered in finance divert the smartest graduates away from other sectors of the economy.
However, simply calling for a boost in numbers on engineering courses, with or without teaching in entrepreneurial skills, is unlikely to solve the problem.In recent years there has been a big "leakage" in Britain more than half for all engineering disciplines of new engineering graduates away from the branches of manufacturing we might assume they would progress into.
Another factor that probably helps to keep science graduates away from translation is its image.
Yet these instances of exploitation push young graduates away from teaching as a viable choice of profession".
The series was an obsession that bordered on a lifestyle choice for my friendship group during secondary school, so even though we were trying to graduate away from evenings spent watching scratched DVDs and into the world of nighttime, alcohol and eternal glory, we still couldn't resist the chance to capitalise on a David Brent themed club-night.
In addition to the worry of practicing too much defensive medicine among specialists, we also wonder whether the increase of lawsuits will turn medical graduates away from choosing emergency medicine.
