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...most employers would tell you that too. They would pass up a GED holder for a high school graduate any day." The Department of Defense has come to the same conclusion. Their studies show that half of all alternative credential holders, typically GED holders or correspondence course graduates, quit or are expelled from the Armed Forces before the end of their first tour of duty. At an estimated $40,000 to replace each enlistee, recruiting a GED holder is an expensive gamble. So the military, the GED's original client, keeps a tight ceiling on the number of GED-holders...
...Paik is somewhat exceptional as an online poker player at Harvard, first because he was able to quit and second because he never sunk into the red during his online poker years. Other students have not been as lucky, and College administrators are starting to worry that online poker’s increasing popularity might have a detrimental effect on both the students who play and on those around them...
...Daniel L. Goodkin ’06 says he decided to quit playing online poker last school year, and his reasons for doing so read like a full catalogue of the dark side of online poker, a game he calls “entirely anti-social, emotionally risky, and potentially consuming...
...decision [to quit] was the result of several facts,” Goodkin says. He suffered “some nasty downswings” and realized that “the short term earnings variance was intolerably high...
...That type of consumption can make online poker very attractive. Goodkin says he still has second thoughts about his decision to quit playing...