I preferred school work. I could fuck up a few times and not be expelled. Fuck up once at a job, and you're fired, no severance, no anything. At my last job (hopefully my LAST job) I was fired for the crime of questioning the validity of using work in progress Pull Requests as a KPI. I was fired on a Thursday, and I did not get paid for Friday. (Name and shame: Cloudpassage.com. A failing company).

School was better. You don't become homeless if you get a D