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.

9-3 everyday, no weekends

Idk homework ate up most of my evenings during the week and usually at least an evening of my weekends. Add in working a part time job for the last two years of hs and I think I was busier then than I am now

First off, it's more like 7:30-3:30 not counting homework and projects after school, second: fuck you man.

I hated every moment of school. It was miserable from start to finish, and I wouldn't go back if you paid me. I wish I would have thought to drop out at 16 and get my GED.

The bus picked me up at 6:30 AM and I had extracurriculars, so I didn't get home from the late bus until after 5:30 PM. I'd almost always have an hour or two of homework too, but usually I could get it done on the bus or during other classes. But not always.

Then there is the puberty and hormones, plus the depression from not being popular or good looking, which still affects me today.

I heard this opinion many times and I couldn't disagree more. I hated school and I much prefer my adult, working life. In fact I feel like my life only gets better as time goes by.

Granted, I'm privileged to have a well paying job I actually enjoy, which probably makes a world of a difference.

Fuck that. Give me 9-5 any day over going back to being stuck in an uncomfortable metal desk+chair contraption all day and then have to do hours of filler homework after. Hauling around books I may or may not ever even open in class. Pushing through rush hour traffic in the hallways between classes. Gym class? WTF no. Then take massive tests like our lives depend on it.

I'm cool, no thanks.

Doing nothing productive with your life, everything revolves around social drama, getting permission to take a shit...

I enjoyed my time at school. But you've got to ask yourself, if the best time of your life was at school that means you've made bad decisions, so what did it prepare you for really? School failed you.

The truth is that school fails all of us.

Highschool was way tougher when it came to time management tbh. Even in college I was envious of normal 9-5 jobs. With those, holidays, weekends, and evenings you actually get to shut off. In school there was just constant assignments/stress.

Tell me you peaked in high school without telling me you peaked in high school.

Hard disagree. School was a nightmare.

Idk i really liked high school, all the fun and minimal responsibilities. I wasn't even popular but had a great friend group. Classes were fun, most teachers were cool. Would I go back? Hell nah. I love my life now at 35 even more.

Pay could have been better

I think it has more to do with less responsibilities and the freedom children have.

Then we become just another cog in the machine.

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True but learning is hard work.

And fuck, I hated homework.

Nah, the hours were fewer but during those hours I had a lot less freedom to the point of having to ask just to go to the bathroom. Plus having to do homework and having strict deadlines (turns out missing deadlines in office work isn't as big of a deal as it is in school). Now if we're talking about university/college, then yeah, those years were great, provided you didn't have to work many hours on the side. I had a part-time job, but things were light enough that those years were leisurely and lovely, certainly better than the grind now.

Abled and neurotypical take lol

Well, that is, if you had friends in school, and weren't being bullied.

Also, no worries, but also no money.

Only 6 weeks off for summer? We were off almost 3 months every summer. (Usually about June 2-3ish and the next year started the last week of August.

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I loved school man, and not just in retrospect, I can't believe I'm completely alone with that based on the comment section. And I wasn't even one of the "cool kids" or anything. I went to a high school that some would consider "elite" (though that description makes me cringe), and sure, there were some stressful times, but generally as long as you had realistic expectations and didn't aim to ace everything, it was pretty chill. My day began around 7:30 I think and was free after about 2pm, and usually I spent maybe like half an hour extra studying for the next day, plus a bit in the weekends, and then I could do whatever, it was such a bliss. And I loved learning, I just loved that I got to study such diverse topics, and you know what man, I love knowing that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. Oh and the summer breaks were also great, some of the best times of my life. I'd take school over the sheer amount of bullshit you have to deal with as an adult any day.

Y’all don’t get Easter holidays?

Being a grown up means I get to choose my gender, so grownup automatically wins

I'm in college RN, taking three classes, and literally just last week i was working so much to keep up with all the classes homework I started from 9am to 10pm with no breaks (online) with only the 5 min eating break every so often. If it was a 9-5 I would have been done and have time to spare for other crap. Fuck this idolizing the past "9-5 is evil" bullshit.