With school being what it is now–a deathtrap in addition to being largely non-educational, a glorified daycare, unless your parents are paying a shit ton of money for private school or outside tutoring–it’s easy to develop a natural contempt for it. The same sort of contempt that would prompt Irvine Welsh to title one of his books If You Liked School, You’ll Love Work. Which, yes, of course, means that the “advancement” from this institution to the one that will actually pay you to be miserable isn’t advancement so much as gradual and accepted decline.
So, in essence, from “school sucks” to “fuck work,” one has to ask: which is worse? Like everything, each one has their slew of cons. Granted, both promote the perpetuation of developing the false concept of “other,” an outsider to be feared and therefore condemned/ostracized. With school, at least it’s presumed you still have your youth and “beauty” while you suffer, but with work, freedom from parental oppression and “input” is also to be relished. Thus, it’s really just a matter of picking which kind of thorn you prefer in your side. The kind that puts your life at risk every day while you’re fed bullshit ideas of romance in such curriculum staples as Romeo and Juliet, or the kind that allows you to live complacently while being less likely to handle the drugs you need to cope because you’re middle-aged now?
In short, from school to work is a substitute term for “cradle to the grave,” for all your life there is the same dull pain, just in a different setting.