How many of the choices you made in high school actually affect your adult life today? (lemmy.world)

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Was talking about home economics as a school subject in another thread and i realised that for me personally, taking "Food Tech" (cookery gcse) would have impacted me pretty negatively, even though generally speaking GCSEs don't have much of an effect on the rest of your life or education.

So i wonder if anyone else has similar revelations? My post title is also phrased more openly than that, so it doesn't have to be school specific, but i am mainly interested in things from the teenage time period.

Another choice i made in HS, for instance: i remember being really glad to have a medium-size group of friends in high school, but in retrospect they were terrible people and i realise that there would have been huge benefits to spending more time alone and in the library - yes, i genuinely look back and wish i studied more, lol. Something which I'm always told never happens.

This one "affects me as an adult" because i ended up entering adulthood with several friends determined to force their personality to be cool, relying on manosphere influencers to determine how they should behave; a lot of these people i didn't want to know in the first place.

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[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 day ago

I wish I’d stuck with the vocational classes and ignored the utter morons I was surrounded by.

I could have made a killing and been retired by now, but I thought I was too smart and went to college, got in a bunch of debt, and crushed my soul in advertising and web dev for my best years.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

did those classes had post-hs training? the pseudo-vocaitonal class i was i was woodwork, teaches you how to properly measure, cut wood etc. the teacher did try hard to keep the course from being cancelled for future semesters, but people wasnt interested for the most part in doing the class only the bare minimum.

[-] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Same. Last year of sixth form, when we're applying for unis i was given really bad guidance for where to apply. I saw an apprenticeship for my degree and thought "if i can get paid for it, why not get paid for it??" But didn't look into it any further because i was lazy. Wish i was grtting paid for my suffering right now.

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