>and would have preferred the less boring alternative
Work pays a wage and you're actually doing something objectively useful. That money can be used to make the time you're not at work much better.
School [for the people who don't need to be there] does not pay and you're doing nothing objectively useful; it's a time-suck that leaves you broke anyway.
Honestly I always preferred to be doing something than sitting in a room listening to lectures.
In college I pulled all the tricks in the book to convert real projects/internships into units, and I'd be seriously depressed if I had to go back to school. I think that's also why I have such a hatred for regular in-person corporate meetings.
Yeah, for 1 day… then you'd know what it was about and would have preferred the less boring alternative.