By the time I got to high school, I had way more work than I've ever had as an adult - 8 hours of school, over two hours of commuting, and then several hours of homework after school. Being an adult has been better than being a teenager in pretty much every way.
I notice adults who hate being an adult were often raised as totally spoiled children, like they never had chores, didn't have jobs, did the minimum at school, parents made all their choices for them, etc. coddled, more or less. And they are miserable adults because they think autonomy is a curse.
those of us who worked out asses off as kids basically think adulthood is easy time/party time. i can't imagine thinking basic chores are difficult or awful... and yet so many of my adult peers can't even do them. Blows my mind how many grown women I have dated who throw a tantrum at having to pay a bill, and seem to think all their money should be for fun things. But then again, their dads paid their bills almost all of their life, so they think it's 'unfair' to have to pay their own way in life.
Also for me, becoming an adult was a process in learning a lot about how limited my childhood was and how stupid my parents were as people. I played video games 30 hours a week and ate shitty food because that was... all that was available to me. I wish I could have introduced kid me to all the awesome things adult me gets to do on a daily basis.
Best time in life has been early adult years. 20s, starting work, no family to worry about, starter job's pretty low risk, own money to start spending on shit (treated myself to my first PC build), got my own place (rented half of a 2 bedroom flat). There was so much free time and my living costs were so low in the tiny town I lived in with shared accommodation, it felt like I didn't know what to do with all the money I was making (even though it wasn't much).
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ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1d
By the time I got to high school, I had way more work than I've ever had as an adult - 8 hours of school, over two hours of commuting, and then several hours of homework after school. Being an adult has been better than being a teenager in pretty much every way.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 8h
I notice adults who hate being an adult were often raised as totally spoiled children, like they never had chores, didn't have jobs, did the minimum at school, parents made all their choices for them, etc. coddled, more or less. And they are miserable adults because they think autonomy is a curse.
those of us who worked out asses off as kids basically think adulthood is easy time/party time. i can't imagine thinking basic chores are difficult or awful... and yet so many of my adult peers can't even do them. Blows my mind how many grown women I have dated who throw a tantrum at having to pay a bill, and seem to think all their money should be for fun things. But then again, their dads paid their bills almost all of their life, so they think it's 'unfair' to have to pay their own way in life.
Also for me, becoming an adult was a process in learning a lot about how limited my childhood was and how stupid my parents were as people. I played video games 30 hours a week and ate shitty food because that was... all that was available to me. I wish I could have introduced kid me to all the awesome things adult me gets to do on a daily basis.
cRazi_man@europe.pub · 4 pts · 1d
Best time in life has been early adult years. 20s, starting work, no family to worry about, starter job's pretty low risk, own money to start spending on shit (treated myself to my first PC build), got my own place (rented half of a 2 bedroom flat). There was so much free time and my living costs were so low in the tiny town I lived in with shared accommodation, it felt like I didn't know what to do with all the money I was making (even though it wasn't much).
Untamed_Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 23h
Aren't those just 2 different kinds of freedom?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 22h