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[Sun Bather]

At work I usually work pretty hard. But at school and university I was lazy as fuck. A combination of finding a lot of it easy, and just being tired of going to school.


But I just quit my job a few weeks ago... So now I'm just working hard on my steam library

 

[IsntChrisL]

I've worked hard to get to the place I'm at now. It's no dream job but it's much better than the poverty-level wage jobs I was working before.

I really want to work full time in entertainment though. So I'm constantly working on YouTube and other things after work.

 

[oneils]

I think I did. But it's all relative. My definition of hard work is probably a lot different than others'. Also, I'm sure some may have achieved better/same/worse results with more/less/same effort.

 

[Coffee Dog]

No. I've never worked hard, but I haven't exactly gotten anywhere either.

 

[Head of Vengarl]

No. I work for my family business. If I didn't have the support of my upper-middle class parents I'd probably be living in poverty.

I am of maybe average intelligence, I have zero passions, and I'm low energy (like Jeb!) and often not very motivated. I'm terrified of something happening to my dad or when he retires, because I'm not even half the man he is.

 

[Lautaro]

Yes, I worked hard to leave poverty but only after I finished high school. I was pretty lazy with my studies maybe because I could get mediocre/decent grades without effort.

 

[gfxtwin]

Earned a university degree and I'm told I have a talent/skill at illustration that I've put time and effort into having that lets me get paid to do that, so I suppose, although I'm not at all as good as the painters I aspire to be (Craig Mullins, Noah Bradley, Feng Zhu, etc).

 

[Dryk]

Nope. Never had to support myself, never had to work hard, live off of inheritance which has me set up for years. Will probably get my PhD sometime this year despite laziness all the way through undergrad (where I basically fluked into barely scraping first class honours) and postgrad.

 

[demosthenes]

Didn't work too hard in high school. Got by with 90+ average doing most of my homework actually in school. Took AP classes and was able to get 3-5 on them without much issue. All that said, I paid attention in class, I listened to every word the teachers said.

Didn't study for my SAT or ACT and got fine scores.

In college I never skipped class, graduated with a 3.55 or so. I interviewed to be a TA and I prepped more for this position than anything else I had done at this point in my life. I even got my accounting professor at my college to lend me some students for an hour so they could critique me. He gave 6 of them bonus points on their next exam. I interviewed and had to present 2 problems to two professors who were acting as if they had never taken accounting before. I got the TA job, which waived my tuition and gave me a stipened on top of that.

Worked my ass off in grad school which was just a single year and had 9 A's and an A-. My paper to graduate was about 40 pages long. My classes ended in May and my job didn't start until January so I had 7 months. On days that I had Becker review (CPA exam) I would go to class for 5 hours a day and do 5 hours of homework a night. On days I didn't have class I would work on my paper for 10-12 hours a day. I did this until September.

While being a CPA each busy season I work about 280 hours of overtime between mid January to mid April.

I think I've worked pretty hard along the way.

 

[catbird]

Worked my way up from entry level.

Made the right connections.

Took night classes to get a degree.

So, a bit of both, yea.

 

[T_V_H]

I probably have, and I probably have to work a lot harder still to get where I think I want to be. That being said, I have the tendency to undermine everything I "achieve". It could as simple as learning a song that I've been wanting to learn for ages, after learning it, it sudenly becomes a shit song that any asshole could play. Quess I could say I have chronic inferiority complex.

 

[bman94]

Yep. 3.83 College GPA. Section Leader for two years. Mostly got 4 hours of sleep routinely in college. Out of all my classmates in the same major as me that came in the same time as me, I was the only one to graduate on time. I graduated with people in my major who first came to the university 1, 2 and 4 years before I did.

What I didn't have in talent I made uo for in hard work.

 

[ColdPizza]

Didn't work too hard in high school. Got by with 90+ average doing most of my homework actually in school. Took AP classes and was able to get 3-5 on them without much issue. All that said, I paid attention in class, I listened to every word the teachers said.

Didn't study for my SAT or ACT and got fine scores.

In college I never skipped class, graduated with a 3.55 or so. I interviewed to be a TA and I prepped more for this position than anything else I had done at this point in my life. I even got my accounting professor at my college to lend me some students for an hour so they could critique me. He gave 6 of them bonus points on their next exam. I interviewed and had to present 2 problems to two professors who were acting as if they had never taken accounting before. I got the TA job, which waived my tuition and gave me a stipened on top of that.

Worked my ass off in grad school which was just a single year and had 9 A's and an A-. My paper to graduate was about 40 pages long. My classes ended in May and my job didn't start until January so I had 7 months. On days that I had Becker review (CPA exam) I would go to class for 5 hours a day and do 5 hours of homework a night. On days I didn't have class I would work on my paper for 10-12 hours a day. I did this until September.

While being a CPA each busy season I work about 280 hours of overtime between mid January to mid April.

I think I've worked pretty hard along the way.

Yeah, tax season sucks for accountants. Does your employer pay out the OT or give you comp time?

My wife is strongly considering getting out of public accounting after a decade.

 

[Kisaya]

College wasn't hard for me until I was in my junior and senior year. Junior year was tough because I was in a bad living situation with my parents, who were emotionally (and sometimes physically) abusing me. It was hard to focus on my work when I didn't even want to go home to study/write papers, and I got a few Cs and even failed one class that cost me my minor. That summer I finally left home and I was hopping couches for a while, but thankfully a really good friend of mine and her parents let me stay in their house for a year. Honestly if I didn't leave my parents I probably would have not bothered finishing school. Graduated with a 3.4 GPA and a couple of internships under my belt.

Immediately finishing school I decided to leave Brooklyn and relocate to Chicago. It was extremely hard trying to find a job in my career field (Art Administration), so I settled with doing a ton of unpaid internships and part time retail. Eventually, I found a good part-time gig in my field, and one of my internships decided to hire me part-time as well. It's not the best success story, but I'm doing what I love and I'm feeling financially stable. The next step is a full-time salary position >

 

[rokkerkory]

Hell yes everday homie

Still grinding in all aspects

 

[LincolnSixEcho]

Worked pretty hard to put myself through school. Parents helped by letting me live rent free, and undergrad tuition was covered by Cal grants and my part time earnings. Dental school was all federal loans though. I had to learn not to procrastinate. But I took many opportunities to relax and have some fun too. Gaming helped me a lot to unwind.

 

[Kaneda Shotaro]

Nope, total luck here. Right place at the right time (zero networking or background check). So now I work hard to keep it.

 

[One Eyed Willy]

Yep, community college drop out to sr systems engineer.

 

[Pusherman]

I'm not a successful person but what little success I have has been entirely given to me. It's outrageous how easy my life is and how little I give for how much I've been given.

 

[SolVanderlyn]

I had more when I was a lazy teenager.

None of the hard work I have done in my life has amounted to anything. Won't stop me from trying, even though sometimes I wish it would.

I did lose a lot of weight and pick up a strict running routine. I guess that's something.

 

[Jag]

No one gets anywhere without help and luck.

One thing I learned about luck, you only get lucky if you try. So many times I was down and content to collect a check from a shitty job, but getting my ass moving to push for better things is what caused some lucky shit to happen for me.

 

[MidgarBlowedUp]

I worked hard to attain my personal goals. Being a hard worker hasn't done anything for me. I just got lucky for the job I currently have.

 

[Kill3r7]

I could and should have gotten more mileage out of my intellect. I tend to be too complacent. That said, I have done okay compared to most of my peers and the vast majority of the country.

Also, I agree with the statement a poster made earlier in the thread, saying that being a parent is the hardest and arguably the only worthwhile job I have done.

 

[Bleepey]

I worked hard, and failed upwards occasionally. I am stalling at the moment but I need to get lucky again.

 

[jackal27]

Yes, but I was also born with a lot of privilege so I have to take that into account. Having a dad who is a business owner helps a lot with landing jobs, because I know what people are looking for. I still work really hard though.

Actually, at the moment I'm feeling really burnt out. Job is exhausting and never seems to end. Supposed to begin seeing a counselor soon. Hopefully I can learn to manage it better.

 

[samoscratch]

I definitely worked hard but not until College, in high school I didn't care at all.

But I wouldn't have been able to do it without my parents, my father worked 2 jobs so I could go to college, I will never forget it.

 

[ClosingADoor]

Depends on how you look at it. Some say I work hard, because I basically am working whenever needed. That means some very busy week and long nights if stuff breaks down or things need fixing. It also means I can set my own schedule mostly, since it is my own business and the internet.

Never finished college, dropped out after a few years (it's pretty cheap here, so not that big of a loss on it). Definitely did not work hard at school.

And I have a lot of luck with my current situation, so I never really had to worry about things like paying the bills or putting food on the table, which I'm very thankful to my parents for.

 

[RMI]

I constantly diminish and undersell my own achievements, so I have no idea.

 

[manzoman96]

I think I've always worked pretty hard to get where I'm at now, I'm just still in college so nothing too great has come out of it yet. Just actually recieved my 4th deans list letter today out of 5 semesters so I think that's worth something. For me my problem is just figuring out which direction I want to go. I always feel like you don't know if you truly like something or not when it comes to study until you're too far in. Currently in junior year majoring in marketing with a communications minor, but my interest in marketing has been diminishing as of late while my communications interest has been growing, but bumping up my minor to a major would make for a super jammed summer/senior year. Looks like I'm at a working hard crossroads.