Did your bullies end up better off than you did?

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I know at least one bully died in prison. I try not to think of the bullies, for the most part.

Some of them are about the same level as me.
Some of them aren't.
Some of them are dead.

Da bullies in my skool did end up wid better qualifications but dat means nothin 2 me as i always felt skool is only 4 morons not 4 decent ppl.

...what?? I think you go too far with the net slang "Howzat". I just can't understand you.

I've never seen any of my bullies after I left school, so I wouldn't know if they did better or worse than me.

However, I could finish my higher education, am on disability right now and quite poor, and not very succesfull romanticly or socialy, so it would be quite an effort to do worse then me.

Bullying is rewarded in society, so of course they'll do better financially and socially. I doubt they do better happiness-wise.

Well, if he thinks school is only for morons, then maybe he thinks that correct spelling is for morons as well.

I did fairly better then the bullies I knew in school some of them are in jail or whatever, some I see and dont know what they do, and I think only a slight few faired better then I did.

It's similar here.
The demand for work experience is my bane because I should have, for my age and type of profile, at least twice the work experience I have - the employment market seems backwards and risk averse; demanding experience for almost everything. So whenever I explored the job market to see if there was anything interesting I ended up being called only for stuff I was already doing even if for just a few months.

I'm not sure what's wrong or how fubar my career really is.
AS traits could explain a great deal but most almost all the time it's my resumes that find no reply; the 95% figure seems pretty consistent with what I see and am told. . .

Last edited by Whisperer on 20 Dec 2007, 6:41 am, edited 1 time in total.

Poetic justice at its finest.

Some of the people who bullied me in the past, are actually doing well now.
It has only been two years since they stopped bullying me, but some of them seem to be straightening out their lives and being quite successful in areas related to academics and vocation.

Although, some of them are now dead....the cause, a drug deal gone wrong, as I learn't yesterday from something I read in the newspaper.
Even though I may be a bit of a loner and have no academic success, I am better off than those who died.

Somewhat surprisinngly, when I have crossed paths with people I last knew in my childhood or in my early teens and who were distincly cruel to me at that time, a couple of times they have spontaneously brought up comments like, "Kids can be very mean, y'know? Do a lot of things that they're really going to regret when they get older". I respond with a half smile and a shrug, not having any interest in continuing that topic but recognizing that in their abstract third person way, they were sort of making apologies. These particular people were just normal folk now, not particularly successfual or miserable.

I tend to look at childhood cruely as an unfortunately very natural phenominon that goes back to man's ealy ancestors. I completely agree that bullying should be prevented when possible with policies and reprocussions, but the initial impulse is just something that often comes from being a young human. I used to carry enormous grudges against a few specific people, but that sort of washed away when I realized that were just propelled by their nature in ways they were no more responsible for than the ways my nature propells me.

In the long run AS people will end up better I'm sure. It may seem great now that the bullies may be married with kids and great jobs, but in 20 years where will they be? They will be divorced, their kids hate them, working the graveyard shift at a dead end job.

I'm uneasy at some of the people saying people are lower than them because they've got working-class jobs instead of middle-class jobs or being rich.

One of the kids who used to bully me constantly died of heart attack before the age of 30.

I guess I'm better off than him.

Most of them are dead. I actually wanted to celebrate after one of them died in a drunken car crash.