• adarza@lemmy.ca
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    16 天前

    ‘work’ just replaced ‘school’. same restrictions usually apply, just with the “i’m an adult” modifier that lets you deviate with some degree of risk to your paycheck.

  • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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    16 天前

    wait what? Complete opposite for me. When I was in school I would hang out after school all the time. Work days are much longer and I have other responsibilities so now it’s more rare to have time.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)@lemmy.ca
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    16 天前

    I retired in January after 40 years (not counting jobs during college). Marriage collapsed not long after (unrelated). So now I live alone and have nothing on my calendar. It’s honestly so very strange not having to go to bed early on a weeknight. Also, for some reason, the hours and days go very slowly, but the weeks and months go very quickly. Time is fundamentally different than it was previously.

  • Etterra@discuss.online
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    16 天前

    You’ve gotta replace “school” with “work.” They’re basically the same thing anyway - prison - but at least you won’t feel silly.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      15 天前

      I work from home so if I want to I can drink on a work night and then roll out of bed 5 minutes before the start of my shift. At the start of the pandemic I used to do that, but you feel awful for like half the day when you do that.

  • synae[he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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    16 天前

    I’m 40, haven’t been in school for 18 years, and “I can’t, it’s a school night” is a common refrain from me when my friends try to get me to stay out drinking. Everyone understands, no one argues (well, sometimes they’ll plead one more time). So, I will not be updating my phrasebook for correctness

    • volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee
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      15 天前

      I’ve been out during school nights. I’ve never been out during work nights. Being hungover and overtired at school vs being hungover and overtired at work are two vastly different things. I have the energy to sit in class and not listen 100%, but pretending I am fine at work and actually do work that I am required to do? That’s a whole other difficulty level.

      (Drinking is legal from 16 years, and students graduated at 19 years.)

  • Voytrekk@sopuli.xyz
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    10 天前

    This is why college was peak. Later classes so I could afford to stay up later. Regularly was up until 3am in college. Not sure if I could last that long now.