This week I realized a difference between work and school that I didn’t realize before. Calling in sick. At school, it’s pretty simple, you call in and say you’re not coming. But with work, you cannot just call in and say you’re not going. Work is work. Its required by someone else that you are their every single day because you are being payed to do so. I recently injured my knee, tearing my meniscus. I let my boss know what was going on and he was very nice about it considering he tore his ACL not to long ago. He gave me two days to stay home and relax my leg without emailing me work to do. It was great, and I appreciate him doing that because not all bosses would sympathize. But after the two days it was work, work, work. The difference at school is that when you’re out for a couple days you come back and usually have the rest of the school week to complete all the assignments you missed, or if the class didn’t do much then you’re lucky and don’t have much work to do at all. But at work, there is always work to be done. When you are out for a few days, usually you would be doing work from home and the when you can go back to work you pick up right where you left off. There is no stopping, unless you don’t want to eat that week. I realized this week, that this is a part of becoming an adult and leaving childhood. To be honest, it really made me realize how much of adulthood I don’t understand yet, which is hard for someone like me to admit.