Life Studying or Working?

[Roflkopt3r]

I'm quite glad about my course: Studying - working - studying.
Only after full-time working it becomes obvious why studying is so important and how enjoyable it can actually be. So right now I'm eager to start at university.

Obviously, studying is only a tool for finding a good job though. Although I think that understanding and enlightement can be joyfull, too.

 

[Mama Satsuki]

If I could, I would do neither. But both can be enjoyable, just depends of where I am and with who.

I hated high school, but am loving university. And the only time I actually had a boss, I liked her so much that I tried my best, even thougth it was as trainee and I wasn't to be paid (it was part of my school curriculum)

I just don't like doing much of anything that involves me having to actually move but I like learning new stuff, and hard work ennobles the human spirit, so they say. If I get to like it, I can work hard for it.

 

[Zeltrax]

Knowledge is power. So, Studying.
I never worked before, so my opinion is pretty much one-sided.
Like someone mentioned before, studying is all about racking your brains and simply finding the answer to the question whereas when you work, you have to deal with many kind of things the society throws at your face. In my country, our school is a very sheltered place(IMO) and yet people want to hurry and go out there to work.
Totally forgetting that if they do not excel in studies, they are just a fish in the big ocean.

But it really depends on what field you're in and ofc if you want to enjoy working, then you must enjoy your job. It's the same thing really, if you want to enjoy studying, then you must enjoy uh..studying? O_O

 

[steelwingcrash1]

If I could, I would do neither. But both can be enjoyable, just depends of where I am and with who.

I hated high school, but am loving university. And the only time I actually had a boss, I liked her so much that I tried my best, even thougth it was as trainee and I wasn't to be paid (it was part of my school curriculum)

In my opinion, being a trainee and being a real-time worker have two different sides of the coin. For me, as a trainee, I was expected to do well from the start. Still, I acted without care of my OJT and they couldn't care less because I was still just a student. During the time I failed in accomplishing the goals of the school principal, my critique/coordinating teacher got reprimanded, instead of me. More than that, I only stayed in my OJT venue for a maximum of 4 hours a day! I thought working life as a teacher will be a sinecure one.

When I started to work for real, I often got reprimanded - well, not really reprimanded, but rather, pointed out - by my principal. My idea of a sinecure teaching profession when I was a trainee vanished for an instant.

So I should say, between the two (once being a trainee as part of a school curriculum AND now working real time), I really prefer being a student because I was a free one. Unlike working now, I am constricted with my job and my reputation as a teacher.

But it was a good thing that I finally learned how to love my job.

 

[Mama Satsuki]

I did get reprimanded as a trainee, it was part of learning from my mistakes; and since I worked doing clinical exams (too late for me to look up the english equivalent of what I did, sorry x_x), such as blood and urine exams for real people, mistakes should be redone until they were right. But I enjoyed it still, never thougth it was easy, hated getting up early on my vacation to do something for which I wasn't being paid, but loved the experience either way. Loved those 6 months more then the rest of my high school

But, as I said, I just loved my boss back then enough to do a good job. I was dead set into impressing her. Working for real, if I like the place just as much, I hope to do as well as I did back then, but I am sure after some time I will get tired

Well, I compared my high school with my first trainee job. I will say of what I think by comparing university and real job in a few years (only 3, hopefully) , as soon as I finish the first and start the second

Still, I can't choose if I like studies or work better For now I will just say that, for me: Study o x 1 Work until highschool, and Study 1x1 Work since then and until now with university.

 

[S01]

I like to study while I work.

 

[steelwingcrash1]

Studying while working? How can that be? Could you possibly be...

... a working college student?
... a teacher?
... a lawyer or doctor?

 

[blai]

There's always part-time jobs that works good for students!

Personally I got quite tired at studying so I'm planning on dropping out as soon as I get a job (currently on an epic job hunt!)

 

[Asarii]

Right now I'm studying, but during the summer I'd like to work to get more experience. (Preferably at my university so I'll still be used to the environment.)

 

[soyokaze]

If I don't have to work, I only want to study.
But sadly reality is so harsh, I have to do both. Still grateful that I can go to school (and YAY for me since I can afford to go this semester)

 

[mak123]

I'm studing for the university, but i'd prefear to work (even if at the university i have lot's of "holidays") XD

 

[Channy]

Im working two jobs right now for a school district where i live but i plan on going back to school in the fall cause i graduated from high school in 2009 and i think its time to go back to school