Professionally? When I got my first non-Union job.
Personally, weirdly enough it actually has worked for me
23 - no one liked me…
Did you still act like you were in freshman year?
In my late 30s, still doing it. I don’t expect to be rewarded though, I just want to toil away without being a dick to people around me.
Thank you
Thankfully, around 7-8th grade. The English and History teachers worked in tandem to impose a critical thinking background to their lessons. Of course, it made me and others cynical as shit, but we were at least less surprised when life decided to go in dry.
Trust me, if you’re thrust in unprepared and need to learn the lessons for yourself you will turn out more cynical in the long run.
I used to be so Idealistic…
Can I just respond to this with the entire lyrics for The Logical Song by Supertramp?
I miss MadTV… Great reference.
Jokes on you, i never had a plan
Not sure of the exact age, but around 2 years from when I started working.
Way, way later than I should have. Or wish I had.
I still do it, but I ask and get
I teach for a living, yet I never learn.
FWIW, I had educators who were quite direct about their opinion of the job.
Oh I love the teaching, it’s the crap around it that bugs me. The hard work is all the paperwork that no-one ever reads - “write only documents” as my father used to call them.
Oh I figured that shit out in 3rd grade.
As soon as we started having group projects in like 6th grade.
It did teach me a valuable lesson about not working too hard for the team. An important life lesson to be sure because there’s very little that truly matters.
Yeah, I learned early on how to speak up for myself thanks to these projects. If we had to do extra to cover someone else not doing their part that person got thrown under the bus.
Ok but if I’m even slightly mean to someone they try to screw me over for the rest of my life. Meanwhile, I see people getting away with it. I need a tutorial on being an asshole that people tolerate.
You have to make sure you’re only being an asshole to people who’re seen as beneath you. If someone above you both likes that person better than you’re going to get fucked. They on the other hand can be an asshole to you with impunity.
Kiss up, kick down. That’s how it’s always worked.
I don’t condone it, because we should be kissing down and kicking up, but the rich people don’t want it that way.
As a kid I somehow figured I could be both a world famous Hollywood actress and a stay at home mom at the same time. And achieve all of that by like 20.
I mean at least one of these things happened temporarily but not until my late 20s.
How many movies have you starred in so far? 👀
Mowing the yard for my dad as a pre-teen. I was trying to earn some extra cash and so went way above and beyond.
He acknowledged it and did pay a little more than we’d agreed to, but in no way commensurate to the extra work I put in.
I don’t mind working hard or doing extra, but I do it for me now. If interested, passionate, and engaged, then I dig deep and do more. Otherwise it’s the agreed upon work and no more.
