#HIGH SCHOOL TO ADULTHOOD

[madeinkorea-blbambeyond]

OUR DATING SIM depicts a story of high school unrequited first love for Lee Wan

However for Shin Ki Tae it depicts regret at a lost chance at first love due to his initial reaction of surprise or rejection (as Wan saw it)

7 Years Pass before the two reunite. Which one changed the most.

Lee Wan (High School) Lee Wan (Adult)

Shin Ki Tae (High School) Shin Ki Tae (Adult)

[dankali-owo]

swapped haikyuu!! doodle dump ‼️

[takaraphoenix]

This is going to be a deeply personal post that I want to share because I hope it can also be somewhat inspirational and motivational for others.

I started a new job a month ago and I deeply love it. I mean, genuinely love it. Love the place, the people, the work. I'm happy going to work and I find joy in what I do and time passes startlingly fast at work because I'm enjoying it. Plus, I make good enough money (sure, it could always be more, but it's already more than my last job which is great).

I honestly didn't think that was a thing. Growing up, I always thought that work is that thing you force yourself through for the sake of money. The requirement. I thought it was crazy when people claimed they liked their work. But damn, I love my work.

When I finished high school, I had no idea what I wanted to do. Fourteen years ago. And it's been a longwided and bumpy journey, but it brought me to a place where I'm happy and where I can see myself working for the next thirty years.

Not knowing where you want to go, or how you could get there, is incredibly, overwhelmingly frustrating. But sometimes, you just have to keep going and figure it out along the way.

(The more long-winded journey under the cut.)

I had no idea what I wanted to do after high school, partially because my school never really prepared us for what comes after.

Our local university is large, and it intimidated me beyond belief when I was eighteen, there was just no way I could go there.

But there was a small, private art school around where I lived and everyone always kept saying turn your passion into your profession, right? So sure, why not. Let's go to art school.

Four years later, I had a Bachelor's degree in art and had also fully lost my passion for drawing. It had become a chore. So I knew that... that wouldn't work out for me. I needed to find something different.

I've always admired the teachers who could inspire others and make you feel welcome in their classes and I was pretty good at teaching others, so I figured, maybe I could become a teacher?

I first signed up for English and Philosophy (with the goal of teaching ethics). I made friends in the first semester in both classes, but I had to switch out of English after one semester - mostly because the teachers were actually insane. They prided themselves in failing at least 10% of first semesters and made the beginning unnecessarily hard and no... fun. I think learning should be fun.

So I switched from English to German and, ultimately, after five years, got my Bachelor's degree in German philology and Philosophy. During the high-time of Covid. My last two semesters were exclusively spent in remote zoom classes.

The thought of becoming a teacher - of being in a room with thirty students for ninety minutes, before class ends and the next thirty students file in for the next ninety minutes, in an endless circle of hell - absolutely terrified me. Heck, the thought of going back to classes to get my Master's degree to actually become a teacher was already mortifying.

So, once again, I stood there, without a plan, but with a useless BA.

I didn't know what I wanted to do, to be quite frank. I was running out of motivation to find something new, because it started to feel like I was truly just failing one thing after the other. I was 29 and had absolutely nothing to show but two Bachelor's degrees.

I became a temp, after a year of unemployment, working in an office in an insurance company. And I liked it alright. The work more or less, but the feeling. Oh, the feeling of working in a small team in an office absolutely delighted me!

I lost that job at the end of last year and went back to being unemployed for half a year. Until a friend of mine, who was working at our alma mater as a secretary, told me about how happy she was working for our university and how she had also started there because she had no prior work experience and none of the required qualifications. She also told me that our university has its own job hunting website and that they never put their job listings onto foreign sites.

I went looking the same day, applied to a job that I got a job interview for but that didn't entirely fit for me. A week later, I applied to another one - and it fit like a glove. I got a job interview before the application phase even ended, I was invited to spend a day observing the work and was supposed to give a yes/no on whether I want to move forward with the process the next day, which I did. All I expected in return was a thank you and to be told when I might hear back to them after they saw other applicants. Instead, I got the job that very day.

During every single step, I felt like I was failing. After my first Bachelor, that seemed useless. After giving up on getting my Master and having yet another useless Bachelor. When I lost the temp job.

But every single step in my journey was... necessary, to get me to where I am right now.

Because I wasn't ready for our big university when I was 18, I needed the small, private university that eased me into college life to have the courage to apply to our city's big university.

And the friend who told me about the job website? I met her in my one semester of English. Yes, even years later, even though we were only together in one class during that first semester, we are still friends. And if I hadn't attempted my second degree - if I hadn't started out with and failed out of English - I wouldn't have met her.

If I hadn't gone to this university, I wouldn't have been eager or able to find a job there.

And if I hadn't had the temp job, I wouldn't have discovered my passion for office work.

Who knows, maybe there is an alternate life where I get on the "right" track when I'm eighteen and end up happy too, but for the life I have now, things worked out well and they only did because of every single thing I had failed or changed out of.

Sometimes, you do need the failures to learn from them, to draw something from them that will help you find your way later.

[jabibi-the-beef]

i was helping to ring up a customer at aldi's in the self checkout and i was like 'hm this person looks familiar' but i wasn't sure because i didn't have my glasses on and i wasn't about to keep staring at her to find out but i got closer and

it's my bloody calculus teacher.

there are a couple regulars who come in that look like her when I don't have my glasses on but today it was her and omfg I pretended not to know her

but anyway i had to do like $3.95 - 2

$1.95 right?

TELL ME WHY I LITERALLY COULD NOT DO THE MOST BASIC SUBTRACTION IN FRONT OF MY CALC TEACHER I WAS PHYSICALLY SHAKING

it took me like 2 minutes to get that whole process done all the while she and her 2 kids were staring at me failing to do simple arithmetic I'm never living this down

[curiositysavesthecat]

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[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

oh also can y'all be praying for me bc i got a job offer from the camp for a summer counselor role that would make me about the same as I'm making at my job currently and like... I want to so bad but I would feel so guilty about leaving my current job after not even a year, yknow? but it's such a good opportunity (INCLUDING the opportunity to learn some higher level theater/seminar lighting skills, and also working with horses) and I would love it so much, I got integrated into camp staff accidentally this weekend because I was the only computer tech who came lol and like... I love what they're doing there. and it was chaotic, but so much less stressful than my public facing customer service job I'm at right now?? like.... I promised myself not to make any concrete decisions until I get back from Florida next month (applications for the position don't close until the end of April, so I have some time) but there's a large part of me that REALLY wants to jump at this opportunity. would you guys be praying for wisdom in this choice for me???

[visenyaism]

yeah i didn’t get to read a lot of The Classics in high school but my lit class’ mysterious focus on bleak and weird southern gothic modernism DID force me age seventeen to have to grow up and get comfortable talking about why incest and rotting through the floor and rat king level psychosexual enmeshment/dessiccation were thematically significant to the text and there to make a point instead of just being like. ew yuck. weird experience to have in public high school but all of that did crack my brain WIDE open as a literature understander

[msnihilist]

Sorry, but Phineas and Ferb going to college as adults is soooo fake. 1) What the fuck is college gonna teach them? 2) They're both WAY too restless to study for four years or more for ONE degree. They spent a single afternoon building to the MOON. FOUR YEARS might as well be an ETERNITY. Spending that in SCHOOL?? WASTE OF TIME.

[theletterboxstuff]

Currently going through nostalgia and grief for the gifted high achiever kid I used to be

[floridazcrazy]

Yall I'm thinking...

Oliver Bearman realizing hes falling for his rookie, wonderkid teammate; who happens to be 17 yo girl! Kimi. If they do get together Ollie realizes they're on borrowed time together until they both reach f1 (not if), where the stress of hiding a relationship and representing such heavy teams would tear them apart. lmao

Everyone saw how brocedes tore themselves apart because they loved each other, but not enough to lose. girl!lewis ofc

Smth Smth bearnelli brocedes parallels. girl!Kimi expected to be the next verstappen-esque prodigy whilst carrying a flop era merc and Ollie is in tifosi hell.

girl!Dino needs to come get her man b4 I do smh *shakes head* speaking of I was thinking of her w/ either Paul or Ollie. Paulito bc they were attached at the hip at prema and Ollie bc he deffo used to like her or still kind've does neowww. Do y'all understand?/ No ? IDC!!!

[ressq]

man i sure wish i had the energy to do anything at all!

okay well it's not entirely true that i haven't been doing anything. i'm cooking. trust.

[crimeronan]

i'm super tired right now so as i mainlined all the tags on that childhood horror poll at once i found myself going "damn. everyone's got every horror subgenre and plotline in the world going on. it's crazy how i'm surrounded by so many traumatized friends when my own childhood was so completely normal"

and then i was like

hey. ktikat.

What.

[otakusapien]

Still hard disagree with this one post claiming Fruits Basket was the "worst offender" of the "everyone gets married and has kids at the end" trope.

It's a romance series. Of course it's going to end with a lot of couples happy together, that's what the romance genre is about.

Multiple major characters [ie big enough they got a book cover to themselves] end the series single, and several characters had no children mentioned in the sequel series

[draculas-tits]

i think it's likely that, to some extent, the focus on writing and verbalizing arguments for sentiments students dont actually believe in high school english and history classes is responsible for the proliferation of meaningless bad faith discourse in the west

[nerdby]

[curiositysavesthecat]

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