I've absolutely been loving your posts surrounding Night in the Woods, so thank you for sharing your soapboxes! ♥
Yes to literally everything you've said here, too. I remember getting so many long stares and "oh..."s from people when I mentioned I was taking five years to graduate from family members (dad's side mostly, go figure) to hair dressers to doctors to professors to other students. It's gross. I've thought about going back for a master's multiple times lately and aside from the fact it's stupid expensive, even an online class would take me probably another five years to complete. Not to mention I'd just kiss all my free time that makes me sane goodbye. Such a lovely conundrum we've made with education in this country :\
I will never get the whole "adults don't belong in fandom" thing. Who runs the cons? Who sets up the booths in artist alleys? Who put together platforms like DW and AO3? It definitely isn't the 16 year old complaining about adults, that's for sure.
Also, I never understand the taxes comment in regards to "go do adult things." I had to start filing taxes when I first got a job, which was 14, and my mom walked everything through with me instead of just doing it herself. And I worked through high school and college and guess what, kept doing taxes. Taxes aren't just an "adult" thing; it's a "you made money at some point" thing (that's a super general way to put it, but hopefully that makes sense). So whenever I see kids being all "lol you're an adult shouldn't you be doing taxes or something???" I can't help but see further lines separating those who were privileged enough to not work while at school from those who had to hold a job the second they were legally able to.
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Yes to literally everything you've said here, too. I remember getting so many long stares and "oh..."s from people when I mentioned I was taking five years to graduate from family members (dad's side mostly, go figure) to hair dressers to doctors to professors to other students. It's gross. I've thought about going back for a master's multiple times lately and aside from the fact it's stupid expensive, even an online class would take me probably another five years to complete. Not to mention I'd just kiss all my free time that makes me sane goodbye. Such a lovely conundrum we've made with education in this country :\
I will never get the whole "adults don't belong in fandom" thing. Who runs the cons? Who sets up the booths in artist alleys? Who put together platforms like DW and AO3? It definitely isn't the 16 year old complaining about adults, that's for sure.
Also, I never understand the taxes comment in regards to "go do adult things." I had to start filing taxes when I first got a job, which was 14, and my mom walked everything through with me instead of just doing it herself. And I worked through high school and college and guess what, kept doing taxes. Taxes aren't just an "adult" thing; it's a "you made money at some point" thing (that's a super general way to put it, but hopefully that makes sense). So whenever I see kids being all "lol you're an adult shouldn't you be doing taxes or something???" I can't help but see further lines separating those who were privileged enough to not work while at school from those who had to hold a job the second they were legally able to.