Which is difficult, working or learning?

Answer 1

I think they both have their difficulties. I can remember being in school and hating all the boring homework and having to sit there hours on end listening to teacher lecture, or being stuck in a class where I don't understand a thing the teacher wants me to know. I hated the long reports and the exams and pop quizzes.

Not that I'm on the working side, sometimes I wish I was on the other side. Now I'm in charge of having my lesson plans completed every day, dealing with 23 students every day, grading homework, doing duty, endless meetings and having to go to other meetings to hear people blah, blah, blah and having to do extra work if I have a sub.

Like I said, the grass is hardly ever greener on the other side, but they do have their good perks as well.

JH

Answer 2

Definitely working. For some people "learning" is work, so therefore it is all work. If you are lucky enough to be learning something you truly enjoy, it is not work at all. The truly blessed are then hired into positions that allow them to continue to "play" in an area of interest, learning is ongoing, and they have to ask if it is right to be getting paid to do something they love.

Work is only a means to an end... a paycheck. It rarely inspires. Perspiration pays the bills, but inspiration feeds the soul.

Answer 3

Definately working! Learning can be very rewarding, fascinating and fun if you're studying something you like. Whereas at work, you're often surrounded by people you don't like, bored, have to wear specific and often uncomfortable and unflattering clothes, dictated to by mediocre people who have simply climbed up the ladder over time (or backstabbed and bullshitted) rather than acheived anything with their intellect or ability, have to deal with dreary 'office politics', put in unpaid overtime and bring home not nearly enough in your paycheck.
While studying you can choose your own friends, wear normal clothes, be stimulated and inspired, have someone of incredible intellect teaching you, and arrange your own work schedule, mostly. I wish I could be a student forever.
The sad thing is most of what people earn is wasted on status symbol crap to impress dimwitted snobs into being nice to them. work is overrated!

Answer 4

It really depends. If your working but then you enjoy it, it becomes fun but if you learning but hate it it becomes difficult.

Answer 5

Learning. As we are always learning, even when we are working.

Answer 6

Both. Depends what you're doing though. If you enjoy what you're doing, difficult becomes fun.

Answer 7

You mean work or school? It depends on the job or the program.

Answer 8

They are intertwined. If you work, you are learning. And if you are learning, it is work.