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[-] Frog-Brawler@kbin.social 124 points 2 years ago

I would not switch my current scenario for a scenario where I was back in school. Hard pass. Now is much better.

[-] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 49 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I rather get paid for my time and not be dependant on my parents for everything.

[-] rifugee@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

Yeah, there are some things missing from that list, like the homework and bullying. No thanks.

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[-] eochaid@lemmy.world 104 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The answer isn't nostalgia for school. The answer is to improve work with the "perceived" benefits of school. 30-hour work weeks, 6 weeks paid vacation, paid holidays including bank holidays, occasional half days after the end of a big project, chatting with coworkers that aren't stressed out of their mind and actually given the mental space to be chill with you.

That's the real dream.

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[-] Rooty@lemmy.world 83 points 2 years ago

Ugh, no thank you, school was like a shitty job you can't quit, physical violence is brushed off and your future is held hostage by underpaid govenment workers who either don't care about you or actively hate your guts. I would sooner die than return to that time and place.

[-] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

For me, school before college was garbage. Stuck being babysat for hours and hours every day with classmates I hated, doing extremely boring remedial work.

Once I got to college I had a lot of fun. I could learn more of what I wanted to and only had to spend a few hours a week in the classroom.

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[-] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 69 points 2 years ago

Yeah, no. Worklife is much easier. No need to worry about tests and homework and no need to sit in what's basically an office the whole day.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

To be honest, if I knew what I know now, I wouldn't give a fuck about school tests.

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[-] homura1650@lemmy.world 62 points 2 years ago

I'm a college graduate with a successful career in my field of study. The hardest part of getting here was graduating college. To this day, I have never had a nightmare about college or work; but I still get them about high school.

At work, I have 1 boss. In highschool, I had 6 bosses. At work, my boss tells me what to peioritize. If I have multiple things to do, it is their job to tell me what to let slide. If we are behind schedule, it is management's fault, and they arrange an appropriate responce. Timelines are typically just guesses that are missed, and true deadlines are rare. In highschool, all of my bosses simply give me work, and I am responsible for getting it all done. All work is on a strict deadline, and slipping is highly penalized.

At work, I can simply do the work, and get occasional guidance where appropriate. In school, every piece of work I do is combed through for errors and reduced to a cold score.

As an adult, I would not put up with half the crap we make students go through as a matter of course.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 54 points 2 years ago

9 to 3

My bus came at 6:40 am

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Mine came at 6:20. Day started at 7:10 and we got let out at 2:10. But didn't get home until closer to 3. A 9 hour day not including after school practice.

I don't know where these 6 hour school days are, but I didn't get them.

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[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 51 points 2 years ago

What about the endless work you had to take home with you to finish, with some teachers even disallowing finishing it in class, having to deal with bullies and other idiots, being told you need to get laid and that it would change your life, finding out together with someone in the same position that it really doesn't change anything and you just have to be a special type of stupid to think that, resolving stuff with bullies only to start getting bullied by teachers over your health issues, and probably so much more that has been buried as a defense mechanism.

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[-] endhits@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nope. I would take my worst days as a working adult over my best days as a minor in school.

[-] abraxas@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 years ago

Yeah, no shit. If my coworker tries to bully me, I have him fired. If he tries to fight me, I have him arrested. If my boss (I have one, instead of 7) is an asshole to me, I put out my resume.

There's a lot of advantages to school if you're a lazy bastard who just wants life to hand you things on a silver platter and are willing to pay the price of freedom, but there's also a lot of negatives.

[-] twelvefloatinghands@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago

The homework tho. It was the homework that hurt.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Gimme that homework now. I'll absolutely crush those essays I used to have so much trouble with.

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[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 2 years ago

I think it's safe to say that most Lemmy users probably had a shit time in high school lmao

[-] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Easily the worst part of my life.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Elementary and middle school were kind of shit too.

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[-] Knightfox@lemmy.one 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If you're a social and relatively smart person (or just take the minimum requirements) high school is probably really fun and easy. If you aren't social high school is either a job or a prison.

If you liked high school more than adult life then you probably peaked in high school.

[-] Okkai@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago

As a teenager, I did not like high school. As an adult, I do not like adult life. What does this mean?

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[-] rab@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago

Hmm I liked high school more but I don't think I peaked there. It was just an easy stress free life with the thought of a bright future

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[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

no weekends

9 to 3

Did OP go to like rich people fake school? Homework took up half your out-of-school time and I had to wake up before 6:30.

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[-] sexy_peach@feddit.de 36 points 2 years ago

Nah I can do whatever I want now

[-] Tankton@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

Yeah. The people who long for the freedom of school life sure fucked something up in their adult life.

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[-] COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Depending on the environment you grew up in this isn't necessarily the case, high school and college particularly can be very high pressure and consume tons of time when you're not actively "at school". The pressure in college was so much higher than in a real job for me. Weekends used to be for homework and studying only. Weekdays after 5? Also homework. The stress and self inflicted pressure before finals and exams which determine 20%+ of your grade was unreal. Summers were for internships and those weekends were nice. But still not as nice as doing the same thing and getting paid 4x as much.

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[-] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

You’d have to pay me way more money to go back to school.

I maintain the hardest I’ve ever worked was at school.

And you don’t even get paid!

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[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

9 to 3? I used to do 7 to 4, without any money for lunch.

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[-] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago

Yeah, but have you considered that you don't get paid to go to school?

Nostalgia is a very strong thought, but being a grown-up means that sadly, there is a lot of things in life you'll have to give up because of money and responsibilities.

But life is short, there is no reason to not live your dreams and enjoy life and be a kid again once in a while. Do something crazy, say something stupid, go see your friends every day not because you have to, but because you want to, have fun again.

[-] MetaCubed@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

But consider: we could make it less shit to be an adult (on average)

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[-] kalleboo@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

You didn't realize? It seemed to me that the adults wouldn't SHUT UP about how oh you better enjoy this life while you got it because once you grow up life is going to suck!

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[-] thedoginthewok@feddit.de 19 points 2 years ago

Nah, man. fuck school

[-] Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 years ago

I had to wake up at 6 am in order to arrive at 7:30, didn't get out until 3 pm. It was basically a full time job with horrible hours and unpaid overtime.

[-] mydickismicrosoft@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

When I was in school, a bully punch me in the face and laughed about it. I didn’t fight back, I just walked away. We were both suspended. We both came back to school. They kept bullying me.

If this happened at work, the offender would have been fired on the spot.

Being an adult can suck, but we should stop telling kids how amazing they have it and how it gets so much worse being an adult. Some kids really do have it bad.

If I had known that life got better after school, maybe I wouldn’t have been so damned depressed at the age of 13.

[-] LoamImprovement@ttrpg.network 17 points 2 years ago

Yeah, somebody's wearing rose colored glasses. High school was fucking miserable. My junior and senior years I had no less than two hours of homework every night on average from the AP courses I was taking, on top of working a part time job every weekend and all summer to pay for the car I was driving. I never fit in because everyone else was talking about some pop culture, music or TV I had no time for because I was completely occupied.

My best years were in college. All that unstructured time and autonomy over my bodily functions rocked. Shame it came with a $50K pricetag I'll never pay off.

[-] meliaesc@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Your experience isn't universal either, of course.

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[-] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Nah, shit fucking sucked and I think it's the source of most of my physical and psychological trauma.

[-] CheezyWeezle@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Wait you guys only got 6 weeks off for summer?? Summer break was always from mid-June to September for me, about 10 weeks...

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