I have something unfashionable to say: Banking is a fine career choice for today’s college graduates.

Like a lot of people, I didn’t know what I wanted to do when I finished college in 2005. I was interested in politics and policy, but as I applied for jobs in Washington I found that the entry-level work was dull and poorly paid. I considered going to law school, but I was unsure I wanted to be a lawyer and didn’t want to spend $160,000 on a degree I might not use. So I did what a lot of Harvard students were doing at the time: I took a job in New York with a bank that came to campus to recruit.

Like many of the subjects of Kevin Roose’s best-selling book “Young Money,” which profiles entry-level investment bankers in post-crisis New York, I became a banker even though I had no specific love for finance. Mr. Roose warns against this, having found that his subjects were miserable. In a May interview with Ezra Klein at Vox.com, he went over the top in his description of how banking ruined people.

“It makes them too risk-conscious,” Mr. Roose said. “It gets them used to a standard of lifestyle they may not be able to replicate in any other industry. And it has a deleterious effect on creativity. Of the eight people I followed, a few came out very damaged by the experience. And not in a way a vacation can cure. It’s not about having bags under your eyes. It destroys your ability to think in creative ways about what it means to build something of value.”