Mastodawn

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kviksilver/116286871350643627

Creative industries thrive on the eagerness of the young apprentices to be a part of something they’ve always deeply admired. So many of them have become machines that take that youthful enthusiasm, crush it in the mill of productivity, discard anyone who burns out, and call the rest the distilled product. Then the cycle repeats itself as those who made it through the crucible take over.

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Michael Fessler 4d ago

@Gte See also: medical school

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Michael Fessler 4d ago

@Gte No lie, a major factor in my deciding not to go to med school in my 20s was the knowledge that the system would force me to make life-or-death decisions while worked to the point of impairment via sleep deprivation..

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Guy English

@mfessler My father was an anesthesiologist. He struggled his whole life with his own limits, the limits of what was possible medically, and those of the system around him.