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.

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    17 days ago

    I had a friend who discouraged me from going into software development after highschool. I was always into computers, but math isn’t really my thing - I would definitely have crashed and burned fast if I tried to study computer science at university. Years later I ended up doing a trade school ‘degree’ (German Ausbildung) in software dev, though, and that worked really well for me.

    My professional life isn’t going well due to medical reasons, though. There’s a possibility that I could have avoided the worst of that if I never went to university and just went to trade school right away, my university years kinda fucked me up.