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>it's because he was expecting to have his hand held alot more which is something I've never assumed If anything I've found I feel more supported at work than

by lol768 7y ago

>it's because he was expecting to have his hand held alot more which is something I've never assumed If anything I've found I feel more supported at work than I ever did at university. Hand helping? No. But I can ask questions if I've spent a while on something and am totally stuck, we're generally all working towards common goals on projects so we'll collaborate and try to help each other. I also get regular feedback at code review time. Huge contrast to my time at university where for some courses lecturers wouldn't turn up to their own office hours, or answer emails. Useful feedback was generally scarce, occasionally not provided at all and it was difficult to remedy failure.

karatestomp 7y ago
Agreed. Work is in most ways easier than school. If you're lucky enough to find yourself in a highly sane and functional organization (at the level you deal with it, at least) it's life on fucking easy mode. High school's probably the hardest time of my life so far by a long shot, and I'm entering middle age. So, so much work, very little of it of any value to me or to others (and I have a pretty expansive view of what sorts of education are valuable, I'm not a "if it's not part of my narrow field I don't care about it, who needs the humanities" sort), terrible hours, high stress. Even college was easy by comparison—15 hours of classes plus 15 hours of homework and studying (unless you fuck up selecting classes or get unlucky you shouldn't have it worse than that, and may have it much better) and often waking up after the sun rises? Rarely having something assigned one day and due the very next? Practically a vacation! High school was torture and I wasn't even bullied or anything. Worse there were people telling me it's the "best time of my life". No wonder kids are depressed.
- CalChris 7y ago
  For me, HS was easy and college was brutal. But I agree that short of a startup, work is much easier and should be.

by lol768 7y ago

karatestomp 7y ago

Agreed. Work is in most ways easier than school. If you're lucky enough to find yourself in a highly sane and functional organization (at the level you deal with it, at least) it's life on fucking easy mode. High school's probably the hardest time of my life so far by a long shot, and I'm entering middle age. So, so much work, very little of it of any value to me or to others (and I have a pretty expansive view of what sorts of education are valuable, I'm not a "if it's not part of my narrow field I don't care about it, who needs the humanities" sort), terrible hours, high stress. Even college was easy by comparison—15 hours of classes plus 15 hours of homework and studying (unless you fuck up selecting classes or get unlucky you shouldn't have it worse than that, and may have it much better) and often waking up after the sun rises? Rarely having something assigned one day and due the very next? Practically a vacation! High school was torture and I wasn't even bullied or anything. Worse there were people telling me it's the "best time of my life". No wonder kids are depressed.

CalChris 7y ago
For me, HS was easy and college was brutal. But I agree that short of a startup, work is much easier and should be.