more thoughts re: yesterday afternoon's post

[lauralh]

So let's move forward to the premise that college is bad, because it encourages a culture of excess. Either you meet and fuck a shitton of people, or you drink too much, or drop too much acid, or just overdose on drama. And if you ain't doing any of that, you're probably working way too fucking hard on classes. There are very few careers where you have to pull all-nighters, ever.

But then again, it probably goes back to high school. The reason people explode in college is because their whole life up to that point, they've had to fucking ask permission to go to the fucking bathroom. Freedom is fun! and scary.

Something needs to be done. But not for me, I'm over it, I work for a living.

Comments

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Yeah see there is that my problem. At the age of seven I had decided I had enough of this seatwork crap.
I come from a family where no one wants to join in on that fun and we tend to respond by ignoring such things and doing what makes us happy. It is like that Kauffman and Hart play, "You Can't Take it With You". That play is my family to a T. You are told to do what you like with your time as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else and you are being fairly civilized with the rest of the human race. Mind you this has so-far created me a non-paid writer, my brother who is an actor, my sister who is considering medical school but is also keen on ballet and the cello and my youngest brother the musician.
Money and stuff isn't a huge deal to us. We like things but we would rather have a good time.

I don't suppose we are successful but we are cheerful.

I only work so I can keep myself in paper and books.

[tyrven.livejournal.com]

Totally. I'm very much the same way. I've been fortunate that what I enjoyed happened to be in high demand long enough to help situate me in a comfortable financial position. I am often criticized for my unwillingness to abide by or recognized social value systems or definitions for success, almost as though it's some type of obligatory pursuit. People are funny.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

If you can make money at what you like doing then yay. If you can't so be it.

I just know too many people who are miserable with their jobs and situations and it puts me off.

My job pisses me off a lot but I also get a kick out of it in a weird sense. But I also have a spirit of being really honest with my managers and I get away with some of the lack of school spirit.