Thanks for reply/insight. I much prefer the Cambridge approach. Still I might offer this Wulf like reply.

I liked the mention of "banality of corporate life." This is something that me hit lately. Manufacturing is more exciting on the whole than software services I'm in now. But I think it's also age related. Post-45 there's a folding/ integration / joining / quickening in which the world becomes smaller. And in that world sameness is more apparent. In other words I don't think I'd write banal at 20, but I would now