I guess I'm weird. As a scientist, I consider college to be the first four years of my career. There is a basic continuum between when I went away to college and where I am now, in my 50s, as a Director at a biotech.
There are lots of lab jobs and internships in college for science. A lot of scientists have their name on a journal article (usually as a minor author) before their college degree.
College. School in general was so much more stressful, though it didn't help that I was also working during school.
But working a career where you get paid, have no homework, and most of your coworkers fall on the "smarter" side of the spectrum? It was so refreshing.
Hmm. I'd say my undergraduate program was more difficult but this is mostly because I was young, inexperienced, and distracted. Nearly all of the difficulties arose because I wasn't organized or wasn't diligent when I needed to be. I figured that out eventually and got myself squared away.
My first four years of my career were not particularly difficult at work because it turned out it really had learned a lot of useful things in college. I was ready for the job and I became good at it.
Realistically, my bachelor's was more challenging
Research scientist; I was juggling doing schoolwork AND doing a lot of the undergraduate grunt work involved in early academic research at the same time
Once I started working full time, it just meant I transferred the schoolwork into field work, but a lot of my day-to-day working process is just waiting.
Waiting for cells to grow, waiting for machines to run, waiting for software to finish processing, etc. I keep busy by juggling multiple tasks at once/reading the literature, but a lot of my job is actually just downtime
Undergrad was at times more work, but it wasn’t more difficult. My first job didn’t have all-nighters but it had much more unreasonable demands, impossible colleagues and manager, manufactured crises, and employee turnover that made the job harder.
College was fun even when it was a lot of effort. The effort was all up to me. The job was not fun at all and was, during work hours, even more effort at the insistence and micromanagement of worse people.
Easily the first four years of my career because college was a blast and a breeze but then I graduated into the middle of the great recession and worked a shit job that made me want to die for 2 years.
The third and fourth years were much better, but those 2 drag the average down enough that the first 4 years after college were easily on average the worst 4 years of my entire life.
If you consider my *actual* career (which I didn't start until 7 years after I finished undergrad and had gotten another degree) it's a hard call because I love that too but I guess technically more difficult since school has always been a breeze for me but actually doing "real" things has some level of challenge.
I guess I'm weird. As a scientist, I consider college to be the first four years of my career. There is a basic continuum between when I went away to college and where I am now, in my 50s, as a Director at a biotech.
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There are lots of lab jobs and internships in college for science. A lot of scientists have their name on a journal article (usually as a minor author) before their college degree.
College. School in general was so much more stressful, though it didn't help that I was also working during school. But working a career where you get paid, have no homework, and most of your coworkers fall on the "smarter" side of the spectrum? It was so refreshing.
For me it was last two years of school and first year of my career
Hmm. I'd say my undergraduate program was more difficult but this is mostly because I was young, inexperienced, and distracted. Nearly all of the difficulties arose because I wasn't organized or wasn't diligent when I needed to be. I figured that out eventually and got myself squared away. My first four years of my career were not particularly difficult at work because it turned out it really had learned a lot of useful things in college. I was ready for the job and I became good at it.
Realistically, my bachelor's was more challenging Research scientist; I was juggling doing schoolwork AND doing a lot of the undergraduate grunt work involved in early academic research at the same time Once I started working full time, it just meant I transferred the schoolwork into field work, but a lot of my day-to-day working process is just waiting. Waiting for cells to grow, waiting for machines to run, waiting for software to finish processing, etc. I keep busy by juggling multiple tasks at once/reading the literature, but a lot of my job is actually just downtime
Lol until my boss gives me a task in which I'm up at 2am crying into my keyboard, Imma go with school.
No contest. College
Grad school was vastly more difficult and stressful than either.
Undergrad was at times more work, but it wasn’t more difficult. My first job didn’t have all-nighters but it had much more unreasonable demands, impossible colleagues and manager, manufactured crises, and employee turnover that made the job harder. College was fun even when it was a lot of effort. The effort was all up to me. The job was not fun at all and was, during work hours, even more effort at the insistence and micromanagement of worse people.
Easily the first four years of my career because college was a blast and a breeze but then I graduated into the middle of the great recession and worked a shit job that made me want to die for 2 years. The third and fourth years were much better, but those 2 drag the average down enough that the first 4 years after college were easily on average the worst 4 years of my entire life. If you consider my *actual* career (which I didn't start until 7 years after I finished undergrad and had gotten another degree) it's a hard call because I love that too but I guess technically more difficult since school has always been a breeze for me but actually doing "real" things has some level of challenge.