[game_edu] Qol, "crunch" and Education

[Mike Sellers]

That might work if they did burn out in a few years, in terms of their work,
which they don't, or at least not in a way that demonstrably hurts their
employers. They get older and adapt, or leave for more sedate jobs. But
telling industry to stop hiring overachieving students?  Not likely.  Sadly,
companies don't run well because their employees have found a lovely life
balance and have learned to throttle back -- particularly in any
competitive, global industry.

Mike Sellers

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Ian Schreiber <ai864 at yahoo.com> wrote:


> >>I've been kicking around ideas for a while now about ways to prevent

> students from being overworked

> >>and overstressed due to occupational expectations. Most stress-relief

> programs schools offer that I've

> >>followed generally say things like "take breaks, manage your time, have

> me-time, etc." but never talk

> >>much about how you learn to draw the line.

> >

> >The problem I see is, drawing the line really means "drawing the line

> where you get excluded."  If

> >someone says, "no, sorry, I won't put myself through that," the

> consequences are, "I see, so you don't

> >really want this as badly as others" or even, "I see I can't count on you

> when things get hard."  So drawing

> >the line means you've just put a limit on your occupational aspirations.

>  This often turns out not to be the

> >case in the long term, but there's no way to know that on the day you

> declare your limits.

>

> Sounds like this is an area where educators would want to push back to

> industry, saying "hey, if you want to stop crunching all the time, stop

> hiring the overachieving students that are just going to burn themselves out

> in a few years anyway. They're just going to perpetuate the problem and the

> damaging culture surrounding it."

>

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