WOOHOO!
Guess what I did the for the first time today? Earned money! Okay, I didn't earn much but on Sunday it is enrolment day for CISM faculty and, as I was a student rep last year, I've been invited to help out at £7.50 an hour. Also, to help out with induction Monday through Wednesday! So, I go to a meeting today to find out when we meet up (be at uni
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My parents' cancelled it earlier this year but got it back this summer when I said that they couldn't expect me to come home for weeks on end with no internet lol.
Nah, could never afford to learn to drive - we don't get taught at school here like in America so it costs a lot, AA says it should cost £1050 (http://www.theaa.com/aattitude/start-learning/getting-ready/how-much-does-it-cost.jsp) just to learn, and that's before buying a car or getting insurance. Now that I'm in Surbiton though I can walk everywhere I need and London is only a train ride away.
There are also loads of busses here, I'm a bit annoyed - when I couldn't walk anywhere there were no buses and now that I can walk everywhere, there are loads of them! Sod's law lol.
Most people in the village drive, though a lot are past retirement age there.
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I got my driver's license at 25, which is EXTREMELY unusual for someone living in the sprawling suburbs of Metro Detroit. (I had an anxiety disorder, which is why it took so long.) My parents taught me how to drive. (Hence the problems with anxiety!)
Also, I was going to be all what what what?! about never working before, but once you explain the situation, it makes sense! My kneejerk reaction is remembering all of the spoiled rich kids I went to school with who were all: "My parents don't want me to work; my job is to be a student." Whereas my parents expected me to get straight As and earn my own money, which I've done since I was 11 and started babysitting; I got my first "proper job" (a retail cashier) at 16. It sucked donkey balls!
Anywho, no more rambling from me. Yay for earning money and finishing your degree soon!
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Oh people like that piss me the fuck off! My parent's have very strong work ethics and I really want to work (I left college and tried for four years non-stop to get a job before I gave up and went back to education) but aside from not having transport, I froze up in all interviews I went to (shyness, though I'm less shy now I've been at uni for a year.)
The thing that really pissed me off is that my sister, who is four years older, is the best bull-shitter on the planet. Back in the day, she's changed now because she had a son, she would decide she wanted a job and gets multiple interviews within a week and then gets multiple job offers from those interviews. Then, when she went to work, would do no work at all and get fired, and get multiple interviews and multiple offers and so on and so on...
I'm the opposite, I'm shit at interviews but if I could find someone to give me a chance I'd work my socks off :(
Haha I'm nowhere near finished on my degree! I'm starting my second year in two weeks, if all goes to plan it will go 2010/11 at uni, 2011/12 at a placement (paid work experience with a company), 2012/13 final year at uni.
That all depends if I get a placement though.
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That's AWESOME that you get paid work experience, though! For my degree I had to do about 9 months of placement (16 hrs/week) of UNPAID work. I know that I'm doing it as a learning experience, but still: once you factor in classes and your internship, there's not much time leftover for paid work, which I needed, because the US sucks when it comes to paying for school.
I want to smack your sister. (Sorry...) That sounds really irritating.
University is great for dispelling shyness! I was such a wallflower before I went away to college.
So, yay for you and moving forward! (I'm 28 and just now finishing my degree, so I completely understand!)
Oh, and please to join Team Drama comm???
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