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• Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m 31 with no friends and worked a shitty retail job for 11 years (I don’t anymore cause the place shut down so now I work at a slaughterhouse). I have never once missed school. You couldn’t pay me to go back there.

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  • insanemantis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m just saying, in school you still had your whole life ahead of you, including your 20s

    Everything was fun and exciting. The consequences of forgetting stuff or messing up weren’t as bad. You weren’t forced to work with anyone. Making friends was much easier. There were clubs and activities

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    • mr_satan@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dunno man, I don’t want to be contrariant, but it just sounds like you were privileged enough to think that way now.

      I was poor, I didn’t really get to go clubs or extra activities besides classes, neither did I made any lasting friendships.

      Now I’m in my 30s and I’m living my best life. I have a job I can enjoy, enough money and a loving partner. Never have I thought that it would be nice to go back to school. Hell, I haven’t had contact with anyone from school since it ended.
      I do have some fond and grateful memories of some teachers. I think about them from time to time, but I don’t really miss any of it.
      Also, I’m from a country that has decent enough public school system.

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      • insanemantis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I could say the same for your point, since you clearly have the freedom to work at a job that you enjoy

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    • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There are still clubs and activities in adult life and also I’m not forced to follow arbitrary rules all the time

      You weren’t forced to work with anyone.

      Our schools were very different!

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• decolo@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  wrong! That does suck but it’s way better than school!

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• wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  (X) Doubt

  (I’m beyond that age but the reference is better than saying ‘ha, incorrect’)

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• spacegoat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m 40 and close to retiring. Ha

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• Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Facts

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• kestrel7_7@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have like fifty million friends and a great job. I appreciate that my education helped my life, but I don’t miss school for a second.

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    School mostly felt like a grind. Even though undergrad was more fun, it still was stressful and it felt like there were a lot of hoops without really connecting to much. But when I went back to school like 10 years after that it was for something I was really interested in and (almost) all my classes felt relevant and like they were giving me the info I needed to succeed at what I wanted to do.

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