In fairness, suppose they’d gone for five weeks instead. A lot of people would probably have looked at it and thought ‘that sounds interesting, and five weeks is easier than ten… but I can’t spare five weeks either’. Though I’d certainly have considered it if it had come up when I was a college student.
Yes, that’s probably true, both in the sense that you’ll always be excluding someone at the margin, and in the sense that people who really don’t want to do it, but don’t want to admit that to themselves, will come up with some other excuse like this one.
In my case, though, I can take 3-5 weeks of leave from work (depending on how carefully I shepherd my resources) before I have to start negotiating unpaid leave. I imagine there are some other people in the same boat.
In fairness, suppose they’d gone for five weeks instead. A lot of people would probably have looked at it and thought ‘that sounds interesting, and five weeks is easier than ten… but I can’t spare five weeks either’. Though I’d certainly have considered it if it had come up when I was a college student.
Yes, that’s probably true, both in the sense that you’ll always be excluding someone at the margin, and in the sense that people who really don’t want to do it, but don’t want to admit that to themselves, will come up with some other excuse like this one.
In my case, though, I can take 3-5 weeks of leave from work (depending on how carefully I shepherd my resources) before I have to start negotiating unpaid leave. I imagine there are some other people in the same boat.