WOW! Poor Work Ethic During University Years Predicts Burnout 17 Years Later
Worth reading, but the title of this article is a bit misleading. The key is that ” avoiding work related tasks & pessimistic attitudes about success correlated with likelihood of burnout”. Fortunately, optimistic slackers might be off the hook. I also wonder how work ethic at an investment bank translates into superior returns down the road (should the banker decide to start a fund).
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Background (Via BPS)
If you’re a university student, you’ll be all too familiar with the looming coursework deadline. You’ll know how tempting it is to keep putting the essay off until tomorrow, but then tomorrow comes and Jeremy Kyle has a guest on who’s in love with her neighbour’s dog, so you put it off again. Perhaps you fear receiving a bad mark, but you also reason to yourself that it doesn’t matter. Your plan, once you graduate and get a job, is to change gears, really show what you can do.
Introduction (Via BPS)
If this sounds like you, it could be time to take note. A new study, rare for its longitudinal design, has shown that students who found reason to avoid work-related tasks at university, and who were pessimistic about their chances of success, were more likely, 10, 14 and 17 years later, to report feeling disengaged from their job, and were more likely to report experiencing work-related burnout.
