• reversebananimals@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.ee
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      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.