• reversebananimals@lemmy.world
    133·
    1 year ago

    Dumb take.

    I’m in my 30s and working an office job is way less stressful overall than school was. When I’m done with work, I can go home and stop thinking about it.

    With school, you can never study “enough”, so its always creeping in the back of your subconscious. And good grades alone don’t cut it - you’ve also got to participate in extracurriculars and turn yourself into a trained monkey to write an “interesting enough” college essay. Oh and if you screw any of this up, your entire adult life could be ruined.

    Diligent students have it way harder than office workers. Kids need our support and sympathy.

    • Skaryon@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 year ago

      I’m so glad extracurriculars aren’t really a thing that anybody cares about in my country nor are college essays. School and being a teenager was stressful enough as it was.

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I liked school for hanging up with friends or relatives… But actually going back to school full nostalgia? No fucking way.

  • mommykink@lemmy.world
    75·
    1 year ago

    9-3 everyday, no weekends

    Idk homework ate up most of my evenings during the week and usually at least an evening of my weekends. Add in working a part time job for the last two years of hs and I think I was busier then than I am now

    • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      I was an absolute screw up in school so I never did my homework or reports… barely made it by. So I had time, did a lot of things, and hung out with friends. I do agree with the job, started in like junior year hs and to this day never had more than 2 weeks off since and I’m 40 now… probably should have done my homework! Still the job I have could be way worse. Just wish it paid more…

      • aidan@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        I don’t know, I feel like a lot of kids are pushed to work way harder than they need to in school. I took at AP/IB classes, but I didn’t need too. It hasn’t helped me at all.

    • YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      19·
      1 year ago

      I had to take the bus and it left at *7:00am so I was waking up around 6ish everyday. I was constantly tired and had trouble staying awake in school. Taking the bus back put me at arriving at 4pm home. It was awful tbh. I see grade school years, especially high school, as the worst years of my life followed closely by early adulthood in college.

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
        4·
        1 year ago

        such a classic, and when you perform badly in school due to being chronically tired they just repeat that sleep is important, as if they’re not the fucking reason you can’t get enough sleep.

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        7AM would be awesome for me. My city bus to the station leaves at 5:30AM. At 7AM the first class starts.

        Oh, yeah, last year I was taking train to save money (trains are free for students in Slovakia up to the age of 25 incl.), that left the station at 5AM. No city buses that early, but it’s only 20-25 minutes by foot.
        Since I have to walk my dog in the morning, my wake up time is 3:30AM. Awesome.

        • YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          1 year ago

          Godamn that reminds me of college, I had a class at 7-8ish in the morning but the only bus that could get me there in time left around 5am so I was waking up at 4am to get ready. I would just find a bench to go to sleep until my class started at that point. I had classes throughout the day with hours in between each one so I would stay most of the day at college, spending a lot of time sleeping and trying to study / do homework. The bus is not free for students here. No trains here either. I am not able-bodied so I can’t just walk but it’s a 40 minute drive from where I lived to college with a long highway so I don’t think people are walking that anyway.

          I can definetly sympathize with you, it sounds very rough. Just gotta hang in there!

  • hrimfaxi_work@midwest.socialEnglish
    39·
    1 year ago

    I hated every moment of school. It was miserable from start to finish, and I wouldn’t go back if you paid me. I wish I would have thought to drop out at 16 and get my GED.

    • weeeeum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      I failed school horrifically and the last year I had a decent attendance rate was 5th grade and the last year I attended at all was 9th grade. I was always so anxious and I was bullying, had a fear of failure, was extremely depressed and had likelihood ADHD (it’s not diagnosed but everyone I know with ADHD has told me I probably have it, and I have just about every symptom of it).

      I’m 18, working and its so much fucking nicer. Granted I have a super chill boss and a forgiving job all beit hard job and it’s a million times better. I don’t have any panic attacks before going to work and everyone’s a mature adult, not petty or slightly psychopathic like a lot of teenagers.

      Huge plus is when work is done it is fucking done, I don’t need to stay up all night finishing shit for work too, or have crushing anxiety about upcoming assignments. I still cannot fathom how some prefer school over adult life, school made me want to blow my fucking brains out

    • SolarNialamide@lemm.ee
      5·
      1 year ago

      Same. Being undiagnosed autistic is horrifying in high school. I was chronically depressed and suicidal and everyone avoided me like the plague because I was weird as fuck and had no social skills. I did drop out at 17, then delivered mail for a few years, then after I got diagnosed and put on proper meds went and got my diploma in adult education at 24, which was super chill. Ironically I decided to become a teacher, in part because I want to contribute to making school a little less horrifying to kids like I was. And the 7 years of delay ended up being a huge benefit, because I can stand in front 25 13 year-olds confidently at 28, but I could never have done that at 21.

  • sajran@lemmy.ml
    36·
    1 year ago

    I heard this opinion many times and I couldn’t disagree more. I hated school and I much prefer my adult, working life. In fact I feel like my life only gets better as time goes by.

    Granted, I’m privileged to have a well paying job I actually enjoy, which probably makes a world of a difference.

    • _hovi_@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 year ago

      Fr, hated school so much. At least you get paid for work and there is substantially less drama and bs (though I guess this depends where you work at).

    • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Mostly same. I was horribly depressed and anxious throughout school and had no friends…so I definitely wasn’t seeing my friends every day. And when you get home you always had even more work to do.

      Now, I get paid well, I love chatting with my coworkers every day, and I tend to enjoy what I do, even if it’s monotonous or stresssful at times. And with my job, it’s physically impossible to take work home with you.

      I do miss having a gajillion days off like when I was a kid and I miss my mom making dinner for me and cleaning up after me lol. But for the most part, I don’t think I’d want to go back. I did well in school and wasn’t bullied or anything, but those times were still really rough mentally.

  • krakenx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    1 year ago

    The bus picked me up at 6:30 AM and I had extracurriculars, so I didn’t get home from the late bus until after 5:30 PM. I’d almost always have an hour or two of homework too, but usually I could get it done on the bus or during other classes. But not always.

    Then there is the puberty and hormones, plus the depression from not being popular or good looking, which still affects me today.

  • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
    31·
    1 year ago

    Fuck that. Give me 9-5 any day over going back to being stuck in an uncomfortable metal desk+chair contraption all day and then have to do hours of filler homework after. Hauling around books I may or may not ever even open in class. Pushing through rush hour traffic in the hallways between classes. Gym class? WTF no. Then take massive tests like our lives depend on it.

    I’m cool, no thanks.

  • betwixthewires@lemmy.basedcount.com
    28·
    1 year ago

    Doing nothing productive with your life, everything revolves around social drama, getting permission to take a shit…

    I enjoyed my time at school. But you’ve got to ask yourself, if the best time of your life was at school that means you’ve made bad decisions, so what did it prepare you for really? School failed you.

    The truth is that school fails all of us.

  • Salmoon@lemmy.world
    24·
    1 year ago

    Highschool was way tougher when it came to time management tbh. Even in college I was envious of normal 9-5 jobs. With those, holidays, weekends, and evenings you actually get to shut off. In school there was just constant assignments/stress.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      1 year ago

      i have autism and jefus sucking christ school has to be part of my childhood trauma, i remember in the early grades they forced us to be outside during breaks and i had 0 friends so that meant every single FUCKING day was just spent in abject misery.

      i straight up spent many breaks just standing in a corner listening to the same few songs i had on my shitty phone, thinking back on it is god damn depressing and makes me feel like all the adults around me should be put in jail.

        • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          1 year ago

          oh i didn’t get special education, i haven’t even gotten an actual diagnosis yet because our healthcare system is on its knees. That’s part of why i hate the education system because like… a kid spending all their time alone should be a pretty fucking obvious indication that they might need some help, but nope everyone just ignores that.

  • Bathtubwalrus@lemmy.world
    15·
    1 year ago

    Idk i really liked high school, all the fun and minimal responsibilities. I wasn’t even popular but had a great friend group. Classes were fun, most teachers were cool. Would I go back? Hell nah. I love my life now at 35 even more.