priorities.
seems like prioritizing is the key to success.
...i cant grasp onto that -_-
today i went to work at vanier night school, and did the usual...photocopying! ^^
haha simple, straightforward job. but getting tres tres boring, imo.
not to mention, i recently got hired for fairview's cineplex! OH YA BABY ;D
which means...i want to drop this noob photocopying job even more? :/
only 5 hours a week anyway....min wage. so that's like 40 bucks a week max.
psht. soft.
but i had a good talk with one of the teachers as we stood with each other side-by-side photocopying mountains of work. she's an ESL teacher at night school, which means shes one of the few people i get to talk to because she comes an hour later than any other teacher, that way the office is actually quiet enough for us to hear each other. as usual, she asked me the standard questions and i routinely answered them back just to be polite.
but today, i felt w/e. so i thought hey might as well talk about myself. then i started to suggest how school is a bitch to me right now and how i should drop this job to make sure i have enough time on my hands to focus on my studies. the typical student excuse to quit a job, haha.
but instead of routinely agreeing and sympathasizing with my situation, she went a little beserk on me and started telling me her life story. which was weird, but it got me thinking, so im appreciative anyway. she told me one of her two daughters, whom are both in uni, only got her first job in her first year of uni. back then, the most she ever worked was 8 hours a week. pretty weak (get it? you like that). but nowadays she works up to 40 hours a week. a very dramatic increase indeed. but why? i didnt even bother asking. cuz she told me anyway.
it seems like her family was one of the many who got affected by the failing economy. her husband who had been working in a certain company for 27 years was laid-off because it had gone bankrupt. obviously, the family was affected by having to work twice as hard to pay for regular living expenses as well two university attending daughters but not only did she have to increase her workload to accomodate the changes, her daughters did too.
i guess i feel soft (as puffs). when comparing the pussy self i am (complaining about the measly 5 hours i work being an overload because of stress from school >_>) to people who actually experience situations in life where they have no choice but to work 8 times the amount i do yet attend school at the same time. it's not even like they're doing it just because they are obligated to in order to pay for university. they're actually doing it to support the family as well. then i think about what i have done for my family...and it reminds me that the most i've done for my family was probably make breakfast.
anyway, that was a interesting conversation i had with a certain teacher from work. i never actually spoke to anyone about their family and their unsatisfactory financial state because of the recent lay-offs and change in economy.
but at the end, she kept telling me that if i work hard and keep my priorities straight (she actually primarily said stop watching tv and going on facebook), i can accomplish what i want to. sounds kinda lame now that i think about it..and type it out here for that matter, but i think it was a good conversation to remember/blog about. not to mention, my boss, doug, left me with unexpected but wise advice as well. something about you're a good kid, remember to work hard, stay organized, and stay out of trouble (he said, "dont be a delinquent", or something o_o).
with such nice people, how am i supposed to quit now? :/
...i cant grasp onto that -_-
today i went to work at vanier night school, and did the usual...photocopying! ^^
haha simple, straightforward job. but getting tres tres boring, imo.
not to mention, i recently got hired for fairview's cineplex! OH YA BABY ;D
which means...i want to drop this noob photocopying job even more? :/
only 5 hours a week anyway....min wage. so that's like 40 bucks a week max.
psht. soft.
but i had a good talk with one of the teachers as we stood with each other side-by-side photocopying mountains of work. she's an ESL teacher at night school, which means shes one of the few people i get to talk to because she comes an hour later than any other teacher, that way the office is actually quiet enough for us to hear each other. as usual, she asked me the standard questions and i routinely answered them back just to be polite.
but today, i felt w/e. so i thought hey might as well talk about myself. then i started to suggest how school is a bitch to me right now and how i should drop this job to make sure i have enough time on my hands to focus on my studies. the typical student excuse to quit a job, haha.
but instead of routinely agreeing and sympathasizing with my situation, she went a little beserk on me and started telling me her life story. which was weird, but it got me thinking, so im appreciative anyway. she told me one of her two daughters, whom are both in uni, only got her first job in her first year of uni. back then, the most she ever worked was 8 hours a week. pretty weak (get it? you like that). but nowadays she works up to 40 hours a week. a very dramatic increase indeed. but why? i didnt even bother asking. cuz she told me anyway.
it seems like her family was one of the many who got affected by the failing economy. her husband who had been working in a certain company for 27 years was laid-off because it had gone bankrupt. obviously, the family was affected by having to work twice as hard to pay for regular living expenses as well two university attending daughters but not only did she have to increase her workload to accomodate the changes, her daughters did too.
i guess i feel soft (as puffs). when comparing the pussy self i am (complaining about the measly 5 hours i work being an overload because of stress from school >_>) to people who actually experience situations in life where they have no choice but to work 8 times the amount i do yet attend school at the same time. it's not even like they're doing it just because they are obligated to in order to pay for university. they're actually doing it to support the family as well. then i think about what i have done for my family...and it reminds me that the most i've done for my family was probably make breakfast.
anyway, that was a interesting conversation i had with a certain teacher from work. i never actually spoke to anyone about their family and their unsatisfactory financial state because of the recent lay-offs and change in economy.
but at the end, she kept telling me that if i work hard and keep my priorities straight (she actually primarily said stop watching tv and going on facebook), i can accomplish what i want to. sounds kinda lame now that i think about it..and type it out here for that matter, but i think it was a good conversation to remember/blog about. not to mention, my boss, doug, left me with unexpected but wise advice as well. something about you're a good kid, remember to work hard, stay organized, and stay out of trouble (he said, "dont be a delinquent", or something o_o).
with such nice people, how am i supposed to quit now? :/