One small reason I ultimately dropped out of college was that I was made to take a PE course that was essentially the same pointless exercise in humiliation from high school. Semester after semester, I took and dropped it. By my end, I had no respect for my own degree program
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Lots of foreign language mentions in the replies — this is rapidly becoming an extremely pointless multi-semester activity for most students given that translation tech is rapidly eating the utility between "knows a few travel phrases" and "willing to spend years becoming fluent"
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I was willing to endure pointless things in college because I believed that helping researchers check bureaucratic boxes was important.

I dropped out when I realized that regardless of title there are so very few researchers out there.
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I already have a middleware dev job and the urge to drop out for me is becoming insurmountable
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Yup, I got a research job in NYC, and I was basically like "peace!"
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Curious what you’d consider worthwhile suffering. I think I’ve fallen into the trap of justifying it far too often.
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Lots of things, but nothing which terminates in a ticked box
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I dont think it was by design. It's a silly requirement (I thought so too) but I decided to take a substitute for it in college, GOLF. Lol. It was great being to golf between classes
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“I'm disagreeable, and I lack the conscientiousness to make up for it when I'm being told to do something that does nothing but create suffering for myself in order to make someone else tick a box for me.” Currently on boarding at a new employer. Never quite sure how far to...
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...push it, but given that half of the forms I need to sign are in a language I can’t even read, my disagreeableness is having a field day.
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Bad attitude. Take a lap.
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