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austinz on May 16, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Wall Street recruits so many Ivy League grads

A "young really bright scientist/engineer putting in 120/hr weeks at a stretch" is a recipe for mental illness, low-quality output, and burnout.

eli_gottlieb on May 17, 2014 [–]

That doesn't mean it isn't normal for the early stages of a STEM career (grad school, post-doc, pre-tenure professorship) to demand such work-ethic.

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