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I've got some bad news for you...
Yeah, that totally ends with school.
I definitely donāt live in this state perpetually while I work with no summer break and just a few days at Christmas. Nope. Definitely not.
Being American sounds shit. You really need to fight for paid holiday & sick leave. It's fucking bonkers you don't have it.
Iām Canadian, where we market ourselves as better than Americans, but somehow I get more holidays when Iām working for US firms.
Canada is a resource colony state and always has been.
The Americans probably think you're a limp-wristed monarchist-loving Moose herder who needs his breaks to go pray to the King and chop wood. Don't question it! The UK and Europe have minimum paid holiday levels, maternity/paternity and paid sick leave. Surprised Canada doesn't but you guys need to do something about that too.
Canada does, but itās managed by each province.
Ontario for example reduced sick days, there are no paid sick days, and all work is āat willā which is to say āat will of the employerā to fire you with or without cause.
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Fuckin' tell me about it. Its bad enough our institutions treat us like dogs, but then the Europeans like to come in gloating.
This seems like the perfect place to use āoh my sweet summer childā
At the time it really was like this. The amount of responsibility and work felt immense.
And we never realized it was about the best most of us would ever have it.
At the time it really was like this. The amount of responsibility and work felt immense.
Oh yeah, it wasnāt exactly fun. I remember wondering how the hell adults do it since they have bills to pay and a bunch of other crap to deal with.
But still, being an adult in general is way nicer than being a student.
Don't worry, it's the same but worse for working full time
I just need to get through this... Forever.
Every day is somehow worse than the one before.
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Working just gets worse... š
Nice.
Spoken like someone that hasn't been working very long, or if at all.
While school can be very pressure intense around exams in ways many jobs aren't you at least have summer and other breaks. For work you get vacation time sure, but it's nowhere near in terms of time.
Further adult life has a whole slew of responsibilities on top that you need to handle. Most 30+ can't subside on the crap we ate during college, we can't fuck off from our responsibilities when we can't be arsed with minimal consequences and we sure as shit won't find social stimulus without putting in effort, neither friends nor romantic. Sure if you live where you've always lived then you hopefully have childhood/school friends left at 30 but if you've moved then it's not a given at all.
canāt fuck off from our responsibilities when we canāt be arsed with minimal consequences
This might be the most (long term) depressing thing about adult life. Having a class for a semester or a year means that the mental overhead of a class builds up but, when you're done, that demand is gone and you start over without baggage next term. Jobs build up that overhead, but it just never lets off, ever, unless you quit to take a new job. Switching (professional) jobs is similar to a semester/year end and - esp if you can swing a couple weeks in between - gives you that re-zeroing and that little honeymoon period at the beginning like the start of a class when you don't have homework yet. The difference is that the switch often occurs on a scale of a decade, not a year.
Work is pretty much the same, but depending on your job it can be way worse, or actually not that bad. I've had both.
Started off in a repetitive job with highly demanding monthly targets that we'd need to hit to get our full bonus (which was a significant part of total comp, salary was low as hell). It was an endless cycle of "X more days until Friday".
I transitioned into software engineering. Ya know what? Occasionally I was EXCITED for the next work week. It's still work and it's hella stressful and sometimes you wish you could take the next 5 years off and have no obligations. But a lot of the time, you're not actively waiting for the weekend anymore. Helps that my commute before I transitioned fully to home office was a 12 minute walk and I had after-work activities on weekdays to be excited for.
School for me was living hell for 5 days a week, working for me is alright and at least i also have money to use in my free time. Which I have less of of course, but even if school hadn't been hell I'd never want to go back.
Which is to say, if anyones reading this who's still in school and is getting discouraged from people saying working is worse, don't be. It's very subjective and depends on your job too. If school feels like torture, work will probably be an improvement.
Honestly the worst thing about school were the other kids. Everybody are little psychopaths and are utterly ruthless. At work everybody just wants to get paid and no one really gives a shit about other's business (YMMV though).
Also there's no homework, which is a godsend as somebody with ADHD. Just show up, work your little butt off and go home, nice and simple.
Yep, the other kids traumatized me for life lol. And they didn't even hate me or anything, as I found out by them becoming generally fine to interact with in like 11th grade when they were 17+.
The homework I was thankfully able to just flat out ignore. But that along staying up way too long and as such struggling to stay awake in class lead to friction with teachers, so once the other kids weren't a problem anymore, it was instead the classes themselves. Which were also just mostly very boring and very slow, and I'm suspecting I also have adhd.
Then I suppose school really is preparing you for life. All this time I thought they were just teaching to the test.
Boy do I have news for you
Work too
What do you think life is.... :)
Even though it's not endless, thank God.
With school, you have something to look forward to. It's supposed to end at a certain point. Just wait until you get into the workforce.
There is plenty to look forward to in the workplace. For example one day I will die, and all of my problems will become not my problem anymore.
Oh no life after school is so much worse š
That's why concepts for longer weeks never worked out.
*life
I was about to chime in and say yes that's just life but then I saw the title lmao
Serious note: make some effort to find a career you actually enjoy so you're not just waiting for every week to end. Basically waiting to die.
My alternative advice is to find something you're passionate about to do on the weekdays when you aren't working.
That's good, but then 5/7ths of your life is wasted. Plus, you don't really have the time and energy to fully commit to 2 days of hobbies, so you're really only enjoying 1/7th of your miserable wasted life.
Sure.
And until you find that job, having something to do in the evenings is how to avoid the feeling that life is just waiting for the weekends
Indeed. Even better is having something to live for, or even something to work for (even if the work itself sucks). And these things can take place on evenings and weekends. Then at least the toil is meaningful because it enables the real work.
Sounds like you need some B vitamins sonnnnn
Oh, shit, was that supposed to stop at school?
It's not just school!
For teachers too...
Go wild kids!
Wait until you discover jobs
School is an interesting way to spell life.
And then you get out of school and realise that those were the good times.
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