About prestige.................

The Brain Pickings blog offers some insight on how to "find your purpose 
and do what you love".  Full read-worthy post is here.  Quick excerpt on 
the importance of avoiding the prestige trap is here:


"Prestige is especially dangerous to the ambitious. If you want to make 
ambitious people waste their time on errands, the way to do it is to bait 
the hook with prestige. That’s the recipe for getting people to give talks, 
write forewords, serve on committees, be department heads, and so on. 
It might be a good rule simply to avoid any prestigious task. If it didn’t 
suck, they wouldn’t have had to make it prestigious.”