I basically did the same, except I front-loaded all of the hard work into the first 18 years of my life.
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I always pulled out that Mark Twain quote about giving extremely hard jobs to lazy people because they'd figure out the easiest way to do them.
I've said for years that efficiency is just high functioning laziness. So long as you got the job done and done right or to your best ability, you did it perfectly no matter how long it took you. If you have time to spare, that is your time to do with as you please. Fuck anyone that says it is your responsibility to maximize production after your requirements are met.
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I used to sleep in class. But only after doing all of my work. I had ONE teacher who agreed that as long as the work got done, and I wasn’t disturbing anybody else, she would let me sleep.
~Of course she was a first year teacher, so she probably didn’t know better.~
My dad did this to me once when I was a kid. I was helping bring in the groceries and was carrying as much as I could (which was a lot, but obviously not more than I could handle) and my dad told me it was a "lazy man's load" that pissed me off pretty badly. I was helping dickhead. I can't remember almost anything from my childhood, but I'll never forget that shitty comment.
That's so weird. Even today I try to get as many grocery bags upstairs as I can in one go, because who wants to bother with the back and forth if they don't have to? There's an art to managing six bags of heavy groceries across your arms, a relief that I can get all the cold and frozen things put away sooner, and the natural reward of being able to move onto another activity more quickly. I fail to see what's wrong with being efficient with chores and errands.
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Or I can just do nothing anyway and then feel bad about it 😎
I assume it depends on the quality of the work actually done, versus the quality that using the allotted time would have allowed. Scantron test? 100 is 100. Essay question (or particularly a term paper) that's nice enough but not very thorough? Maybe the teacher has a point.
I was also absolutely told this by at least one teacher, and in my case they weren't wrong.
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The only way it makes any sense is if you did it quickly and sloppily.
If you were doing it quickly and to anything approaching a reasonable approximation of 'your best', then the teacher was just frustrated that the work was too easy for you any they hated seeing anyone getting a break but they saw no way to give you more work than the other kids. Most likely because they were too lazy to come up with a good tiered lesson plan.
There is no problem. If you can do 8 hours of work (well) in 4 hours, you should be able to use the extra time however you want.