Might be a hot take but I think both high school and university are (typically) much more difficult and stressful than career work. Constantly having to process, assimilate, and retain new information at a breakneck pace; perpetual assignments and exams which have huge educational, social, and monetary repercussions upon failure; all this while also having to find a way to earn enough money to survive on minimum wage shit jobs with zero job security or recourse for poor treatment.
Yes, by the time you’re employed you probably have way more responsibilities both inside and outside the workplace which can make life more stressful, but no workplace I’ve been in has challenged me nearly so much as hs and uni.
High school and university are also the times where you’re the least interested in learning. Young people are far more likely to forego learning in favor of partying gaming etc.
Also I had a lot of trouble with assignments. It was always such a disconnected mess of random things that had no clear goal. The goals were decided on the spot by the teacher and the focus was more on pleasing them rather than learning.
At least with work it’s simple. Here’s your task, go and do it. There’s no 1000 random little things to keep track of.
You know, there’s some validity in that. College was hard as fuck; and half the stress was the jobs to keep living and going to class, but 3 jobs makes for little study and sleep. It’s a race to the bottom where you may get a degree, or may die of malnourishment.
School and uni can be easier than work because you can rely on yourself and your intellect and work put in equals success in a way.
Work is 90 percent dealing with shitty people who should go to therapy but go to work instead.
The burnout rate with work is be much higher if I had to guess.
i’ve had many jobs and none of them were like that, outside of a few shitty retail jobs I had.
good companies aren’t like that. they are professional and people leave their personal shit at the door. and anyone who brings their personal shit into the workplace is terminated.
Might be a hot take but I think both high school and university are (typically) much more difficult and stressful than career work. Constantly having to process, assimilate, and retain new information at a breakneck pace; perpetual assignments and exams which have huge educational, social, and monetary repercussions upon failure; all this while also having to find a way to earn enough money to survive on minimum wage shit jobs with zero job security or recourse for poor treatment.
Yes, by the time you’re employed you probably have way more responsibilities both inside and outside the workplace which can make life more stressful, but no workplace I’ve been in has challenged me nearly so much as hs and uni.
High school and university are also the times where you’re the least interested in learning. Young people are far more likely to forego learning in favor of partying gaming etc.
Also I had a lot of trouble with assignments. It was always such a disconnected mess of random things that had no clear goal. The goals were decided on the spot by the teacher and the focus was more on pleasing them rather than learning.
At least with work it’s simple. Here’s your task, go and do it. There’s no 1000 random little things to keep track of.
You know, there’s some validity in that. College was hard as fuck; and half the stress was the jobs to keep living and going to class, but 3 jobs makes for little study and sleep. It’s a race to the bottom where you may get a degree, or may die of malnourishment.
take too hot for me
School and uni can be easier than work because you can rely on yourself and your intellect and work put in equals success in a way.
Work is 90 percent dealing with shitty people who should go to therapy but go to work instead. The burnout rate with work is be much higher if I had to guess.
you just have a shitty job or a shitty manager.
i’ve had many jobs and none of them were like that, outside of a few shitty retail jobs I had.
good companies aren’t like that. they are professional and people leave their personal shit at the door. and anyone who brings their personal shit into the workplace is terminated.