With sz can you do school but not work or work but not school. What’s your experience. I went to school before sz. But getting a job and keeping it was pretty difficult for a while.
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I would like to know what majority thinks also cause I haven’t tried either. I know I would struggle with both. I never got fired from a job before also
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I think work is generally harder for me. But now with my lack of motivation and attention problems both are hard and job can be slightly easier.
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Even before the sz study was impossible for me. I was bright enough but it was too hard to focus on things. I did allright in unskilled work where you used your hands or laboured. So I’d say for me, school was way harder!
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I think school is harder because you can’t switch off your thoughts about it even when you are at home. Homework is always there in the back of your mind. Whereas with work you do your shift or whatever then return home without giving it a second thought. Having a balanced timeframe for work and recreation allows you a respite that schoolwork doesn’t allow.
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School is much harder. I have an 8 page paper, exam and db all due by the 11th. My motivation has been killing me. It’s hard to get motivated for anything anymore.
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They’re both hard. It depends on a lot of things. It’s sort of subjective, imo. For me, probably work. But school records can follow you forever. Work is sort of different, but I’ve heard people being blacklisted from industries.
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I couldn’t finish school, not even at an art university that had been my dream. I don’t know if it was because I was young and didn’t have the bearing that I do now, or if I still wouldn’t be able to do it.
I can work, though. There are no assignments due and not the pressure of accomplishment. I’ve been doing the same job for many years and expect to retire from this job at some point.
I’m very lucky that I found my niche.
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When I started my first nursing job, I thought to myself that, “this is a cinch compared to school”. But, working turned out to be a butt buster too. Especially in nursing.
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School was easier for me. I got almost exclusively A’s. When i worked, i would start sweating the night before cuz i was so nervous and overwhelmed with the idea of working. But it prolly depends, on the job and on the classes. My voc couselor told me if i couldnt handle school fulltime then i prolly couldnt handle a full time job.
Imma try my finger in volunteer work for now, see if there’s some sort of work i can do. Maybe working front desk of a gym or something real easy.
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I worked and went to school before sz and school was definately more stressful than most of my working career (there were exceptions). Now with sz I take language classes and I hope to study iphone programming, but a job would never work
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I felt like school was almost at my leisure. I studied an Arts Degree. Now, if I studied something much more involving that required alot of public speaking, I might feel differently. I think my current work is less stressful but I would find the professions super stressful, so in that case I would go with work.
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You so great @Diana_Ross7
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I think work is harder. When you’re studying as a student you get to take breaks when you want, and you can take long breaks if you want. At my current job I work 6-3:30, and I get a 15-minute break, followed by a half-hour lunch, then another 15-minute break, all at set times, and I am expected to bust my ass at all other times.
With school you somewhat set your own schedule, whereas at work you’re on a schedule that someone else set.
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It depends on which work, on which school and on which person. 
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Personally, It’s apples and oranges to me. I’ve done both at the same time but the environments and what each institution expects from you is vastly different.
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I hauled hay when I was in high school. That was back when they had the 66 lb bails. It was hot and dirty work, but I preferred that to going to school.
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