While this system tends to promote those with the required skills to best play the game, it causes much stress and wasted effort. Since so many are used to thinking that employment-based income is the only way to get ahead, they spend all their effort on their job to the detriment of their home life, despite employers paying lip service to work-life balance. Here, one solution is to moderate one's career ambitions. After all, realizing at an early point that going all the way not only depends on skills, but also requires 100% dedication, reading time, and possibly some ethical compromises, one can aid in the sorting process by consciously seeking positions suitable to one's more moderate aims and avoiding unnecessary competition. Those with less foresight are forced to lower their aims through career burn out.