It just doesnt stop

Seriously, i am getting so unbelievably sick of school and in some aspects life in general... It just seems that there is always something for me to stress about, and i can't get away from it. Every weekend i can't even enjoy myself because there is something due, or something important that has to be done and i am just sick of it all................... am i alone in this??? And added to that, school is boring as hell, i can't get a girlfriend at the moment, and i dont get on with people as much as i used to. fuck it all.

I hear ya, my car just started acting up like a bitch, my credit card bill just came in way high, my insurance company still hasnt insured me, which means i'm illegal as hell right now, my girlfriend lives 100 miles away, my job is literally killing me, slowly as hell. Because of it i'm always sick with something. I had to drop school temporarly because of work, I dont know what shift i'm gonna have so I had to drop for next semester, course I flunked out last one because I missed 3 weeks due to illness which the teachers took as ditching. :mad: So ya brotha, I hear ya... :bandit:

Originally posted by nchandler
Seriously, i am getting so unbelievably sick of school and in some aspects life in general... It just seems that there is always something for me to stress about, and i can't get away from it. Every weekend i can't even enjoy myself because there is something due, or something important that has to be done and i am just sick of it all................... am i alone in this??? And added to that, school is boring as hell, i can't get a girlfriend at the moment, and i dont get on with people as much as i used to. fuck it all.

Try being a teacher - they have to put up with whiney little gits who think life is tough just 'cause they have to do a little work :devil:

try being talented, you actually have pressure on you to achieve something so you don't end up in a dead end job like teaching...

maybe if you had some talent you might have a real job and not be driving a 12 year old shitbox civic living in some outer suburb of sydney....

Originally posted by nchandler
try being talented, you actually have pressure on you to achieve something so you don't end up in a dead end job like teaching...

maybe if you had some talent you might have a real job and not be driving a 12 year old shitbox civic living in some outer suburb of sydney....


Care to explain what thats about?

I don't see what you're bitching about. My car is almost 30 years old and I would never call it a shitbox. And for the record, talent doesn't mean shit in the real world. You will not (statistically) be a superstar, so don't get your hopes up. You can persevere and be patient while you continue your work on your goals. If you think teaching is a dead end job, you need to quit.

Originally posted by nchandler
try being talented, you actually have pressure on you to achieve something so you don't end up in a dead end job like teaching...

maybe if you had some talent you might have a real job and not be driving a 12 year old shitbox civic living in some outer suburb of sydney....

Please note that the policy of "NO FLAMING IN THE FORUMS" Forms part of your membership agreement.This is certainly the proper forum to use if you feel frustrated and angry,but insulting other members simply because they happen to share the same career as somebody you don't like is not acceptable.Speak your mind by all means ,but have the courtesy not to breach the rules of AF.

Yeah, life is a bitch. Had to take my daily driver to the trans shop today because it started bypassing second gear! New fluid and filter didn't help. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to drive my Stang for a few days and hope I don't get an exhibition of speed ticket.

I applaud all teachers as this is something I could never do, no patience.

I really do hear ya. School sucks. No one understands you. Everyone is out to get you, and there is no way out.

But really, what is the big picture? School is just a couple years of your life and it can and will get you far if you let it. And as was mentioned before, what is talent? Is it being able to spit out facts on a Scantron sheet? Is it being able to work with your hands and fix mechanical things? Maybe it's just simply being a good support mechanism for others. And teachers aren't all your enemy. The one teacher who lived in infamy for all my middle school years is the one who asked something real of me and everyone else. And what's more: I LEARNED SOMETHING FROM HER!

For as frustrating and seemingly endless as it looks, you are making progress and that is what matters in the end. Keep your nose to the grindstone and you'll be out in no time.

Some teachers are just a wash out, pathetic and tired of their job not caing that they hold peoples futures in their hands. Some teachers have thepatience of a sniper, the caring of a doctor, the wisdom of a philisopher, and the respect due to those they teach. I will be a trainer at my work soon, making a 300% raise, full medical benifits, with lots of vacation time, why? Because I can teach people how to do a job right. Teaching can make you alot of money, teaching can also bring alot of pleasure that you have enlightened peoples futures.

Talent is all relative. I have a friend, smartest guy you can immagine, in books anyway, outside of it he has the intillegence somewhere between a picklejar and an ashtray. I do horrably on tests, but, if its anything I can touch and use to learn, I will pick it up instantly and always learn it, and i'm still alive because of the skills I learned to keep me out of fights/get what I want from people. The same skills I now use to help people and teach people.

Life is always hard, you just have to find a way that makes it seem more like living life, not surviving it.

(ps...I know I misspelled like a billion things :D )

Originally posted by Setanta

Try being a teacher - they have to put up with whiney little gits who think life is tough just 'cause they have to do a little work :devil:

Bty, this can be taken as a flick to the eye when your feeling bad, so I dont blame the flame, course, i'm not an admin eather. :bandit:

Originally posted by TerminalVelocity
Some teachers are just a wash out, pathetic and tired of their job not caing that they hold peoples futures in their hands. Some teachers have thepatience of a sniper, the caring of a doctor, the wisdom of a philisopher, and the respect due to those they teach. I will be a trainer at my work soon, making a 300% raise, full medical benifits, with lots of vacation time, why? Because I can teach people how to do a job right. Teaching can make you alot of money, teaching can also bring alot of pleasure that you have enlightened peoples futures.

Talent is all relative. I have a friend, smartest guy you can immagine, in books anyway, outside of it he has the intillegence somewhere between a picklejar and an ashtray. I do horrably on tests, but, if its anything I can touch and use to learn, I will pick it up instantly and always learn it, and i'm still alive because of the skills I learned to keep me out of fights/get what I want from people. The same skills I now use to help people and teach people.

Life is always hard, you just have to find a way that makes it seem more like living life, not surviving it.

(ps...I know I misspelled like a billion things :D )

You don't need an honours degree in English or a place in AF admin to be respected here,TV.... You got some damn good points there and a pretty interesting way of putting them across....never heard the one about the ashtray and the picklejar before,but I'm sure as shit I'LL be borrowing it later.(and as usual,I had to go back through this shit and correct some mistakes,but only because I bug myself about it!)

Originally posted by nchandler
try being talented, you actually have pressure on you to achieve something so you don't end up in a dead end job like teaching...

maybe if you had some talent you might have a real job and not be driving a 12 year old shitbox civic living in some outer suburb of sydney....

I bow to your obvious talent - damn, I feel so humbled now, I've obviously wasted my life. :D

I guess if you wanted to take my post as flaming then you have a tad of an insecurity complex. :devil:

As for the rest:

#1 My car may be 12 months old, but it ain't a shitbox.
#2 I have a real job, I work hard at it and get a certain satisfaction out of it and wouldn't give it up for anything. If you are so swept up in money and gain to consider this to be unimportant, well then, you have my deepest sympathy.
#3 Someone has to live in the outer suburbs - In fact, I'm proud to have grown up in the West - it beats growing up with whiney little faggots who get everything given to them by mummy and daddy and have a good old cry when the going gets a little bit tough. Of course, I'm not pointing the finger at anyone here, but if I was it would be this one: :finger:

Quite obviously you have issues - possibly with me, possibly with teachers in general. That's ok, this forum is for people who need a good cry. Can I get you some tissues? Ones with aloe vera to protect your sensitive skin?

Oh well, what can I say?

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Originally posted by Setanta

As for the rest:

#1 My car may be 12 months old, but it ain't a shitbox.
#2 I have a real job, I work hard at it and get a certain satisfaction out of it and wouldn't give it up for anything. If you are so swept up in money and gain to consider this to be unimportant, well then, you have my deepest sympathy.
#3 Someone has to live in the outer suburbs - In fact, I'm proud to have grown up in the West - it beats growing up with whiney little faggots who get everything given to them by mummy and daddy and have a good old cry when the going gets a little bit tough. Of course, I'm not pointing the finger at anyone here, but if I was it would be this one: :finger:


My car is 9 years old, and its damned fast, relayable and has decent gas milage.
My job I work my ass off at, I get no real satisfaction out of it, but it helps to clear my head and give me time to ponder upon my life.
I too am glad my mom and dad didnt hand me everything, granted I would have liked more than two pair of pants when I was 8, it makes what I have now seem worth far more. :bandit:

But I have friends who have brand new cars which are shitboxes, dont work hard at all at their job, and have everything handed to them in life. But they are cool people to have as a friend.

But heres a point, Setanta obviously has talent to be a teacher, especally one who cares, and that means he has to constantly live up to peoples standards and be under a system of checks to make sure hes doing his job right.

Oh and taranaki, my mother is an english major who edits books for a living :D

For the record, I'm a student, 5 days a week, one day a week I work 9, sometimes a few more cleaning in a shitty job that i hate. My parents are well off, and i probably could have everything handed to me on a plate, but i choose not to because i enjoy the bit of independence gained by self sufficiency. I paid for my car, i pay for my fuel and everything to do with it, and i pretty much buy all my own stuff. Sorry about the outburst it was uncalled for, i was having a shit day (poor excuse). However, maybe people underestimate the position some people in my situation are in, i cannot, repeat cannot fuck up anything, as it will result in me not getting into university and subsequently fucking my life up.

been there,fucked that up, still alive.
I scored in 90% in math, 98% in all other subjects. But when it comes down to it i have test anxiety to where if its a test thats important I score horrably, this all thanks to my parents at an early age, but we wont get into that. If you dont get into the university, theres other colleges, and other jobs which can make you alot of money. One other thing is, what do you enjoy doing, as in what would you want to do for a living?

Standardized tests are shit.
If you looked at my Standardized Test scores...(Istep and such) you'd think I was some sort of wonder child. My lowest score was like...96th percentile in any of the segments- English and Math, through about 10 years of testing. Now, let's take a look at what High school was REALLY like for me-
I almost flunked out of high school (had to take problem solving 2, the second lowest math class just to get my final math credit and graduate) The only thing that saved me was my incredible grades in Music and slightly above average grades in English.
I'm currently in a decent job as a typist at our local newspaper. Pay is good, hours are good, co workers are cool, and I like my job. School is NOTHING like the real world.
Don't let it get you down, man. You'll come out all the better once your actually out.

Originally posted by Dustin_S
Standardized tests are shit.
If you looked at my Standardized Test scores...(Istep and such) you'd think I was some sort of wonder child. My lowest score was like...96th percentile in any of the segments- English and Math, through about 10 years of testing. Now, let's take a look at what High school was REALLY like for me-
I almost flunked out of high school (had to take problem solving 2, the second lowest math class just to get my final math credit and graduate) The only thing that saved me was my incredible grades in Music and slightly above average grades in English.
I'm currently in a decent job as a typist at our local newspaper. Pay is good, hours are good, co workers are cool, and I like my job. School is NOTHING like the real world.
Don't let it get you down, man. You'll come out all the better once your actually out.

Ditto this. I had excellent test scores in HS, on the ACT and whatnot, and can have any Armed Forces job I want with my ASVAB. However, I got kicked out of english class and did horribly in science, and though math is my strong point, I ran into grades problems there because I could ace the tests without doing the assignments, and the assignments are 75% of the grade. My problem was that when I was young, everything came easily to me, and since teachers refused to give me special work or move me up a grade, I got used to being really lazy. I am currently working at the local paper as the photo tech/prepress tech/commercial print tech/nightshift supervisor. Pay is good, hours are good, co-workers are good, and after a year and 4 months of working here, there have been fewer than 5 days where I dreaded going to work. School has no relevance whatsoever on real life. Your grades don't matter, your popularity doesn't matter, your clothes don't matter, your parents being obnoxious (or whatever) doesn't matter.

Originally posted by boingo82

School has no relevance whatsoever on real life. Your grades don't matter, your popularity doesn't matter, your clothes don't matter, your parents being obnoxious (or whatever) doesn't matter.

Amen to that. School is where you learn how to learn. It gives you the basics.

After doing my uni degree for Computer Science and getting a job. about 5% of the actual subject matter I learned was useful in my job.

How successful you were in school has nothing to do with how successful you will be in life.

Chill man, i used to be just the same as you. then one day i got so sick of it all, i just thought "fuck it, i'm still alive n kickin, does it really matter what grades i get at school?" if you hate youre job, quit, no shame in that. and as for school, dont worry about it so much. Bill Gates got kicked out of college for weed, and look at him now. i know this aint gonna happen to everyone, but how many super-rich people can you think of that have got top of the class all through skool? if you do well at skool you will be a doctor or somet like that. if you dont, then you can make yourself what you want to be. Qualifications dont count for shit if you really wanna make it big, but at the same time, without qualifications you have a higher chance of becoming a drop out. You make youre own destiny, grades dont mean a thing.

You are stressed out, you cant get a g/f rite now, and you dont get on with ppl as well as you used to. this is probly because of youre constant stressing. if you just relax a little, then i pretty much guarantee you will start gettin on wit ppl again and start pullin women again:D :bandit:

School sux........YEAH!


































No....no it really doesn't...it will get you things you WANT and NEED in life. ;)

HSC marks mean nothing in exactly 6 months time. It is not your life, your life is what you make of it after school.

I had this talk with my SoC kids today as they are stressing over how they'll go. Said the same thing to them :)