The Long Game

There’s a phrase that con men use in reference to a job that will pay a lot of money for a long period of time. They often refer to this job as a “long con” or a “long game.” This is a useful tactic in fiction (as seen in the TV show Leverage), since it allows for continual drama and distrust between characters. However, there are also aspects of the way a long game is planned that can be useful in our real lives, especially as college students move from life in college to life in the corporate world.

First, I’ll lay out the aspects of a long game:

A target

A plan

A team

Patience

Over the last few years, the age at which people are expected to have their life planned out has slowly become younger and younger. Middle schoolers are expected to be thinking about college. All of high school is supposed to be aimed toward preparing you for your field of study. By eighteen you should have picked a major, and if you haven't taken AP or CCP classes in order to spend less time in college, you're behind the crowd. Average has stopped being a passing grade but now is 90-100. . . .

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