It might not surprise many UK professionals that the longest hours are worked by the most qualified.
1 And all too many professionals will be familiar with ironically named ‘magic roundabout’. For the uninitiated, this is ‘beasting’
2 for the professions. It requires a Digital
3 to ‘throw’ a series of all-nighters interrupted only by trips on the ‘roundabout’ … a wait and return Uber to their home for a shower, change and then a sleep-deprived return to work.
We have heard The Magic Roundabout described as
key stage learning in the suffer to succeed rites of passage so favoured by professions. The same rite of passage rationale was given for the institution of fagging in public schools. The roundabout still rotates, fagging was banned in the seventies.