🎵that's life🎵

I mean, for the subset of people who go to uni and can support themselves without also working a lot in that time, yeah.

In my time at uni there was

• work, at which the hours were inconsistent

• coursework, which there was a lot of

• constantly battling a shit landlord who didn't give a toss about uni students and left the flat in disrepair, but the housing shortage meant he could get away with charging a fortune for a mouldy flat with broken windows and non-working appliances

There was a lot of good, sure, but uni can be a very stressful time.

Not if you choose engineering as your major. I’ve never worked harder or longer hours than when I was in college.

If you knew how many times I thought about ditching my job and just go to uni again…

Not for STEM Eastern European universities. 😆

If you can afford not working, yeah. That wasn't a reality for me or most people I know. Luckily I'm in a career that doesn't value a major that much, so I dropped out after finding a decent job

I had a full load of classes at uni and worked 40 hours a week. Not much free time was has by me

But university students manage to feel overwhelmed if their course load has them putting in 35 hours a week.

It's different.

It's way better in some ways - especially if you find a good career in a field you're passionate about.

But some of the responsibilities of adulthood are a burden that is hard to appreciate until you're there. And the perspective gained by life experience is also very different, for better or worse.

For instance, I went through a breakup last year at 39 with someone I was fully expecting to marry. It was my first major relationship failure in decades, and as I was being dumped I expected it to crush me.

What ended up hurting the most was that it didn't hurt that much. I didn't spiral into depression or fall apart at work. I wasn't happy about it, but I was fine. A younger me would have been overwhelmed by the emotional toll, but the adult me was able to keep moving forward without breaking stride.

And in a way that's what hurts. The passion of youth has been tempered by a lifetime of experience that puts everything into perspective.

They're the good times because you see you had no responsibilities and endless potential to be so many things, which becomes less and less true as you age. Of course, it's miserable too not knowing what you are/what to do and feeling lost because you have no responsibilities, so it's really just a grass is greener thing I imagine.

my life has definitely just gotten better as I’ve gotten older.

I'm guessing 20s-30s then? Cos Once you hit 40s things start breaking and falling off.

For me, school was a shithole that I was glad it was over, those were not the good years. Things are not perfect, but they have gotten radically better ever since.

The only thing about school that was good is that I made a few very good friends. Those are probably going to be life long friendships.

Your school day was 8 to 6? Damn. That definitely doesn't sound normal.

I'm hoping the world ends soon. I really want to pick up smoking again.

I’m Canadian, where we market ourselves as better than Americans, but somehow I get more holidays when I’m working for US firms.

Canada is a resource colony state and always has been.

Fuckin' tell me about it. Its bad enough our institutions treat us like dogs, but then the Europeans like to come in gloating.

Its amazing how they have all them guns but basically no workers rights.

I think what you are talking about is communism. Sorry, I'm not dumb, I know better. Excuse me while I donate my paycheck to Trump so he can make America great again.

And we never realized it was about the best most of us would ever have it.

Oh yeah, it wasn’t 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.

👌

Every day is somehow worse than the one before.

Where do you live that working full time guarantees someone enough money for food and heat?

good joke

Moved into a place recently with electric floorboard heaters, just got an electric bill for $400 so I guess I'll be cold this winter

Shit, I refuse to stay in a job for 10 years. There's no reward for loyalty anymore because companies will very quickly kick you to the curb when they determine their executives and shareholders aren't making enough money.

And raises are a joke. The best way these days to get meaningful growth is to move companies every 3-4 years.

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.

Plus rent (or a mortgage).

I don't know. Had a few good years between marriage and uni where I could fill my weekend with fun stuff. That was pretty nice.

Including me.

I would gladly take a side job over another weekend birthday party. Work isn't supposed to be fun, there is something insulting about being dragged to something supposed to be fun but isn't.

As I am typing this it occurs to me I have a solution to my problem. Thanks for inspiring me.

jesus

I just recently figured it out too!

If they don't pay well then that's a different problem than the meme refers to. If there's a high barrier to entry, compete like fucking crazy and own that shit. Any different attitude is a distraction that will sabotage your efforts.

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.