I’m so sick and tired of libs demanding that students juggle scholarship applications, working, studying, and fucking starving in order to get through college.
Y’know what? I don’t think students should have to fucking work during school and it is fcked up that we’ve normalized grinding people into dust in order to achieve an education.
Oh, and fuck you if you have a learning disability and can’t do both school and work. Guess it’s poverty for you, buddy.
A ‘little effort’ here is working a full time job while also taking 12-15 units?
I did exactly that: I had a full time job, a part time job, and 12-15 units a semester because that was the only way for the former to pay for the latter as well as my living expenses.
And it wrecked my health for years.
I would not wish the same on anyone, except maybe in a
way for bootlickers pretending it’s a sustainable and reasonable expectation for students to go through.
The belief that “I suffered, therefore everyone should suffer as least as much as I did” is so fucking alien to me. I don’t wish what I went through on strangers, let alone anyone I know and care about. I’d wish a special focused version of my toil experience on smug hustlegrind chuds, but even then at a measured “shut the fuck up” level at best.
“Kids these days have it easy” is the same vibe. I should fucking hope they have it easier than we did, isn’t that the whole point of civilization or whatever? It’s such an odd thing to be mad about. It’s also not true, but that’s something else.
Record-high depression rates, but yeah sure it’s because they’re “soft” or whatever.
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Were you like a parking attendant doing schoolwork on the clock?
Were you abusing stimulants?
I worked 1 full time job and a full load and was always working and doing the wolf-sleep thing.
How did you manage?
I worked retail in two places within walking distance of each other.
I did a lot of caffeine, yeah, and experienced side effects up to and including very uncomfortable chest pain and tremors. I also had insomnia to the point of hallucinations, cold sweats, and some kidney problems that were later resolved before they became more permanent.
I didn’t manage all that well. My emotional health was terrible, too. The one mental trick that kept me going was believing, alternating from one belief to another, that work was a break from school and school was a break from work.
A lesson in how doublethink is so prevalent as a coping strategy, I guess
I hope you’ve recovered at least physically from all that
I’m in much better health now. I’m not getting any younger, but my 20s had so much stress that in a lot of ways I feel better now than I did then, in my 40s.
what were the symptoms?
Kidney stones.
Yes, and applying for scholarships and grants.