One of my recurrent dreams involves a classroom, a random teacher of the many I’ve had during my life, and a test. Any subject that was hell to me comes to haunt me in the dream. Call it Physics, Calculus, Molecular Biology… Yeah, the hard ones. I wake up in the middle of the night sweating as if I were having a horrible nightmare. And it happens often… it happened last night.
It made me remember a discussion my friend Brittany and I were having with John over a Budlight pitcher at Applebee’s the other day. Britt insisted she thought school was way harder than work, and that it was mentally draining; I had to agree with her. John, on the other hand, told us we were crazy, and that work requires much more of you. In the end, I decided it was a personal thing… I prefer working.
Why? I have NEVER liked tests (who does?), they make me extremely nervous, I can’t sleep, I can’t eat, I want to cry, I never think I’ll pass… it’s not nice. I like school, but I don’t like school deadlines, I don’t like being graded all the time, and I could have done without all that stress. I don’t have to deal with that a work. Sure, there is always something to worry about, and sometimes I feel like storming out of the office when situations become frustrating. But I personally think it’s better to have your manager telling you that you messed up, and not someone telling you that you failed a class and you have to take it again.
But like I said, it’s personal. What do you think?
