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I dunno, for me it wasn't the worst. School was overall much nicer than a job - less demanding, less workload, much more fun coworkers, a ton of camraderie ("us
by badpun 3y ago
I dunno, for me it wasn't the worst. School was overall much nicer than a job - less demanding, less workload, much more fun coworkers, a ton of camraderie ("us against teachers"). Basically a fun, low-stakes environment.
- SketchySeaBeast 3y agoThis is one of those things that is going to absolutely vary between people. That seems to be coming from the perspective of someone who had a strong friend group and felt generally connected to his peers. I certainly had friends, but we were the nerds. In the 90s in my town if you liked comic books and D&D you weren't part of the cool crowd. It never felt low-stakes, every mistake or social faux pas was a way to be relentlessly made fun of.
- devilbunny 3y agoComics and D&D were never part of the cool crowd. The hard part was if you didn't have anything to balance that. I played football. I wasn't getting invited to big parties, but nobody bugged me. Even guys who were never good enough to be first string as seniors - they were part of the team. But that might just have been my school. It was pretty good about letting the drama kids be drama kids, the nerds be nerds, etc. People generally found their niche. Maybe it wasn't the one they wished they could have, but it was a place where you were accepted, and they mostly left each other alone.
- SketchySeaBeast 3y agoYeah, I didn't have proclivities towards sports and my parents didn't the money for equipment or the time to come get me from events (we were rural so you couldn't just bus home) so I couldn't find an extracurricular niche and didn't earn the respect of the school.
- deprecative 3y agoWhy would anyone bug you? You played Football, presumably that meant you were able to beat the shit out of most anyone who would have bugged you. That's a bullying deterrent. If you had purely intellectual interests, or physical issues in general you quite likely would not have had the same experience. It's not about niche finding so much as it's about social blending and masking.
- devilbunny 3y agoI've never been in a fight in my life. I was far from the strongest guy on the team. The most "pure intellectual" people in my class ended up editing the school paper and being in student government. They might have been made fun of, especially behind their backs, but nobody ever really tore them up. Like I said, it was a place where you could find your niche and live in it. Not perfect, and if you wanted to have a conflict, you could. But mostly, that didn't happen.
- MattGaiser 3y agoI had the opposite experience. Work is far less demanding and takes far less time than school. Deadlines mean far less. You get points for solving the problem. Asking a colleague for help is expected, not against the rules.
- mbfg 3y agoWork was a dream, when i entered the job world. I couldn't believe how much easier life was, when you are out of work, you had no expectations, You didn't have to be standing on the bus stop at 5:45 am in the dark, the work was simpler and easier to do, It felt like you were actually doing something useful, people were more 'grown up' and interacted better, and WOW -- you got paid!! of course 30 years later i'm quite jaded, but i certainly remember those early experiences.
- revelio 3y agoHad exactly the same experience. Primary school was OK. High school was bad. University was murder. Office work was a dream.
- badpun 3y agoI had the same experience when I started working, but it only lasted about a year. In a year, the novelty wore off and what was left was an endlesss, monotonous grind, that was incomparably harder than in school.