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Yeah thinking back, school was mostly lots of fun and little to no responsibilities. Cheap food every day and I’m home by 15:15, I meet my friends every day and we all have lots of free time to spend together. School was great.
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.
I’m in college RN, taking three classes, and literally just last week i was working so much to keep up with all the classes homework I started from 9am to 10pm with no breaks (online) with only the 5 min eating break every so often. If it was a 9-5 I would have been done and have time to spare for other crap. Fuck this idolizing the past “9-5 is evil” bullshit.
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.
Pay could have been better
True but learning is hard work.
And fuck, I hated homework.
Learning is great when it’s something you want to do. I went back 10 years after graduating to study something I was interested in and it was fucking awesome.
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Tell me you peaked in high school without telling me you peaked in high school.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Same but I’m not convinced community college would’ve been better.
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.
Well, that is, if you had friends in school, and weren’t being bullied.
Also, no worries, but also no money.
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.
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.
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.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!
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.
