I’m nearing my mid twenties, I never went to college so I’ve been working since I graduated high school, and around this time I get sad, because summer vacation would be around the corner if I were still in school. Three months of freedom to do what I wanted, and all my friends had the same break as me. And always was free to celebrate every holiday with friends and family. I’ll never get a vacation as good as that again. Maybe a couple of weeks of vacation in a year if I’m lucky and it will never be around you any major holiday since I work retail.
I miss the routine of school. Get up early in the morning, be done with school in the early afternoon. Always have weekends off. This isn’t so with work. With work my whole day is taken up every shift I work because my shifts are in the middle of the day and it’s not always guaranteed I get a weekend.
Going to school was always for my own benefit and it was fun because I loved learning. Got to see my buddies everyday. Work is lining another person’s pockets while I make pennies. And I don’t really see it as benefitting myself when I really have no choice but to make sure I’m keeping a job so I can live.
I was always so excited in the fall for the first day of school with new outfits to wear and new supplies, and for all the new classes to take and possibilities. But with work it will just be another day for me, no change between the seasons at all.