Scoot
03.18.11 | list is good new albums |
pmmets07
03.18.11 | fuck work/high school is how i'm feeling right about now |
Scoot
03.18.11 | high school is a fucking breeze compared to college |
pmmets07
03.18.11 | college starts next year. ain't gonna stop me from complaining about high school |
PayneTiger777
03.18.11 | Fuck work at scheduling me to work through all of my spring break from college next week. |
Scoot
03.18.11 | I know, I feel like I'm wasting my time |
WeepingBanana
03.18.11 | i'm only a freshman but college has been a breeze compared to high school. then again i am an english major.
scoot, get a job on campus |
PayneTiger777
03.18.11 | ^^^
I'm a creative writing major in my last semester of college and I got A's and B's in all of my writing classes.
All the other undergraduate classes suck. Fuck biology and math. They are a complete waste of time.
The longest paper I had to write through my college career, aside from my thesis, was 10 pages. English/writing is definitely the way to go. |
R6Rider
03.18.11 | all work here
might as well live at my job |
Acanthus
03.18.11 | Agree with OP.
Jobs on campus are harder to land than you'd think, or at least here.
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Scoot
03.18.11 | it's particularly hard when there aren't many jobs to offer |
Aids
03.18.11 | "college starts next year. ain't gonna stop me from complaining about high school"
yes it will |
Scoot
03.18.11 | listen to the man
it sucks |
Scoot
03.18.11 | i'm in a two year program
kill me now |
mothercountry
03.18.11 | i just got laid off from a warehouse job. looking at the bright side, at least i got out of that shitty field. |
Scoot
03.18.11 | that field sucks. I've been in it for three years.
pays well but the toll it takes on your body is not worth it |
mothercountry
03.18.11 | exactly, i lasted 2.5 years. the pay is mediocre and your only hope is to somehow advance up the chain to become manager. otherwise, you fucked. |
Scoot
03.18.11 | preeeetty much. though in 500 hours i get bumped up to 19 bucks an hour
still, shit work though. would never want to get stuck here my whole life |
mothercountry
03.18.11 | 19 bucks an hour? holy shit. what kind of stuff did you work with? i was making 12.50 and was the longest tenured warehouse employee. |
Scoot
03.18.11 | well technically I'm still employed, they just aren't scheduling me. driving forklifts/pallet jacks, picking products and loading them onto trailers. basic stuff |
bloc
03.18.11 | "in this economy a degree won't even help you like it used to"
This is a very wise statement and I think it's important to keep upgrading your education. Yes, you get your Bachelor's or whatever after 4 years of school but that doesn't mean the journey is over. |
Scoot
03.18.11 | so fucking expensive though. especially when you have to pay for it yourself |
bloc
03.18.11 | Yeah, that's the worst part. It's almost a catch 22... |
Scoot
03.18.11 | that's what's so frustrating about not being able to find work. when i need it most, nobody will hire me |
PayneTiger777
03.18.11 | Nowadays, a lot of college students can't even graduate within the 4 years. It's been 5 years for me and I don't think it's been worth it. I also find that colleges do a shitty job at creating programs on campus to help you prepare for your future career. |
bloc
03.18.11 | Not to mention the transition from high school to uni/college is like one of the hardest things ever (at least for me it was). |
Scoot
03.18.11 | yep mine was 2 years and i'm going into my 3rd. |
mothercountry
03.18.11 | driving forklifts/pallet jacks, picking products and loading them onto trailers. basic stuff
dude, you got it good at 19 bucks. only if you could get more hours. i was doing that and more.... fuck they wanted me to teach new guys, handle our biggest account. the world is very demanding. |
Scoot
03.18.11 | we used to be busy until we got rid of the freezer side of the warehouse. since then, it's been very sporadic |
Scoot
03.18.11 | oh yeah man..something I think about every day. just remember that you're not alone. so many more students have no clue what the fuck they're actually getting out of it than the ones that do |
Satellite
03.18.11 | quit my job today.
feels good man. |
Scoot
03.18.11 | do you have another job lined up? |
Satellite
03.18.11 | yeah, i have an interview on monday that is essentially a formality.
tonight is the first time since i was 16 that i'm unemployed. |
Satellite
03.18.11 | not that i quit on amicable terms today or anything. |
mothercountry
03.18.11 | i only attended a semester of college.. the only thing that really irks me is missing out on the social aspect of things. i still to this day think if i made a mistake or should i try college again... life is what you make out of it, college is an option. not the end all/be all. |
Scoot
03.18.11 | nice man
the economy just fuckin sucks here. nothing is available, let alone for a college student |
Edwin
03.18.11 | Sucks man. I'm pretty lucky in that I found a part time job which lets me work just on my two days a week that I have no uni. Hopefully you'll find something flexible. |
HaydenDyson
03.18.11 | That's nothing! Ive never had a job and i've been searching for over 2 years. No one hires high school students. |
theacademy
03.18.11 | i don't 100% understand the situation you just described, but i feel for you man |
Satellite
03.18.11 | hayden, the difference is that when you're in hs you don't really have any actual responsibilities or commitments or bills or rent. a job is just sorta something you do for a reference and weed money. |
taxidermist
03.18.11 | high school is a fucking breeze compared to college [2] |
theacademy
03.18.11 | for me, from easiest to hardest:
1. Undergrad
2. First Grad Degree
3. High School
4. Second Grad Degree/Job Search
5. The School of Hard Knocks |
theacademy
03.18.11 | holy fuck andcas... that was some beautiful shit, brother |
Josh D.
03.18.11 | Fuck dicks, let's do it. |
TheyTookErrJobs
03.18.11 | High school rules, i'm at school posting this comment right now |
Defeater
03.18.11 | "high school is a fucking breeze compared to college"
they're both easy, quit your bitching |
Scoot
03.18.11 | amen |
Josh D.
03.18.11 | "High school rules, i'm at school posting this comment right now"
What the fuck, it's 10:43, and there is no other time zone than CST. |
Scoot
03.18.11 | we don't all have trust funds |
Acanthus
03.18.11 | I enjoy college, walk in without the dream of a 4 year only stay and it's quite nice actually. |
Josh D.
03.18.11 | Feel the beat. |
FreePizzaDay
03.18.11 | College needs to be considered more carefully instead of being viewed as an obligation.
It's a very large INVESTMENT of time and money and it's pretty dumb to throw your money at higher education unless you're pursuing a job that requires it, you want to generally expand your knowledge, or you're somehow able to receive a return on your investment, like by landing a high paying job. If you're not going to fulfill one of these requirements, do yourself a favor and save thousands of dollars and multiple years of your life.
Too many of my friends just kind of wandered through college with real vague ideas of what they want to do. Now they're all geared up to graduate and they don't have jobs lined up, and they're realizing that they just wasted a ton of time and money.
I guess my advice to anyone still in their first couple years of college (and high schoolers as well), go to college for the right reasons and spend a lot of time thinking about what you want to do. Don't put yourself in a position where you have a ton of student debts built up and nothing but a shit office job to pay for it.
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Hawks
03.18.11 | I quit my job a while back and I'm going back to school. Dumb decision to quit in the first place. 1 and 2 are fucking awesome. |
Edwin
03.18.11 | FreePizzaDay is right. Too many people I know have gone to uni just for the ride and see it as a big social thing, or because they don't want to look for a job. |
tkxxx7
03.18.11 | I don't plan on having any debt for awhile . got three recurring grants so yeah
landing a job is pretty much luck nowadays, but at least I don't find college too difficult. Most of what I'm studying is stuff I like anyways |
MO
03.18.11 | gotta work in 5 hours...I'll still post here sayin don't give up, if you do you'll go nowhere |