Poll: Which is better: studying or work?

[William Fleming]

It depends on what you are asking honestly. With work you often have a somewhat set schedule and amount of hours (ignore overtime and manipulative asshole bosses for now), outside of those hours, you are essentially free to do as you please.

With studying its kind of the same thing except that you have multiple assignments, assessments and exams with a clock ticking down to their deadline. So unless you like getting bad grades, resitting exams or even kicked out, you are best hitting the books or getting those assignments finished.


If you were wanting what I think is objectively better with the exact same amount of time in each (say 35 hours of work vs 35 hours of study). I honestly can't give an answer since I have never got a job yet so I can't give a personal opinion (just give those points though the work one could be wrong depending on certain occupations).

 

[Chemical Alia]

Working for me is doing the same exact stuff I was doing when I was studying, only being better at it and getting paid for it instead of the other way around.

I love working.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

It's a difficult thing for me to compare the two.

On the one hand, now that I have control of my education and am taking classes to get into a career I really want to be in professionally; school and studying is a joy for me. I actually am hating this summer because it means I'm not in class, learning more about how to light scenes or build coherent shot-lists or edit. It can feel far to theoretical though, dragging on when what you really want to do is go out and DO IT! Still, if you genuinely love the source material, you come to love school (and the amazing people you'll meet in it). 18 months of University has already netted me a large network of friends who will work with me anytime and vice-versa.

On the other hand... Work pays. By simply being patient and doing a series of repetitive tasks for a period of 8 hours in a single day, I can build up money to take care of rent, food, entertainment, etc. Its dull, its often full of other people bringing drama into where you need to be productive and occasionally the bosses are bullshit... All of that aside, I'd be lying if I said I hate work. A good days work in which you feel you really left your place better than when you came in is satisfying.

So... I just don't know.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

I like University better than school because drinking and agency and whatnot, and I'm ambivalent towards the work I do now (which is basically things a robot will be doing in a few decades). I think it comes down to whether you like what you learn/do. I haven't had experience working doing something I love, and I imagine that would be the best time. I am currently studying largely things I hate doing in an attempt to work at something I like, because although programming and maths don't have a lot to do with each other, someone thought it was a good idea to have it all unavoidably in the same course, with the result that about 3 in 4 subjects aren't programming.

There are plenty of courses I could have done that I would love. Animation, game design, graphic design, and the slim possibility that I would be fine with law. But I chose engineering for job security and that's the price you pay for not playing to your strengths. A lot of tedious work you do hoping you'll never have to look at it again.

Essentially my reckoning is that if you're learning something you love, that's better than working doing something you hate, and vice versa. But I wouldn't really know.