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.
I still have nightmares of getting to my locker in time and making it to class.
I still have nightmares where I’ve somehow just forgotten a big assignment or presentation, or sometimes that I even had a class in a given time slot.
making it back to my locker was stressful enough that I just gave up on it altogether and carried everything around all day
My combination lock was finicky and attached to the locker. Every day was stress.
I locked mine freshman year and never came back. no idea if it had anything in it.
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.
Yeah, I liked school for hanging up with friends or relatives… But actually going back to school full nostalgia? No fucking way.
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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…
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.
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.
First off, it’s more like 7:30-3:30 not counting homework and projects after school, second: fuck you man.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Hard disagree. School was a nightmare.
Pay could have been better
Tell me you peaked in high school without telling me you peaked in high school.
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.
Nah, the hours were fewer but during those hours I had a lot less freedom to the point of having to ask just to go to the bathroom. Plus having to do homework and having strict deadlines (turns out missing deadlines in office work isn’t as big of a deal as it is in school). Now if we’re talking about university/college, then yeah, those years were great, provided you didn’t have to work many hours on the side. I had a part-time job, but things were light enough that those years were leisurely and lovely, certainly better than the grind now.
True but learning is hard work.
And fuck, I hated homework.
Only 6 weeks off for summer? We were off almost 3 months every summer. (Usually about June 2-3ish and the next year started the last week of August.
Yeah idk what they’re on about, my summer breaks went from mid-May through Mid-August. 6 weeks sounds rough
The UK has alternating 1 or 2 week school holidays every 6-8 weeks throughout the year as well as the 6 weeks during summer and also bank holidays occasionally.
My wife did work at a district that was ‘year round’ 3 months on, 1 month off.
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