Exams? Wait until you get a real job..

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by dmek25

to me, stress = knowing you have to bring home a check to make your household work. sorry guys, i would take going back to school any day

Yeah, see this is the whole reason why work is more stressful. If you're single living in an apartment, then work usually isn't all that stressful, because nobody's depending upon your paycheck other than you. But when you have a family to support and a mortgage payment to make, doing well at work matters a lot more. When you realize what it's going to cost to send your child to college, getting the next raise at work becomes very important.

For those trying to work their way out of debt and/or struggling to make ends meet, it's even more important.

In college, exams matter for your grades which impacts your college resume. So yeah, it's an intense amount of stress in a short time. But in the end, if you don't do well, you're only letting yourself down. There's much more stress involved in knowing that your children or spouse are depending on you.