Timesink
Although it's not scheduled to start for another three or four weeks, my next four months of summer school have already swallowed up $3,200 worth of blood money for tuition.
Between the payments ripped out of my hands for lackluster classes, my recently acquired new car(s), and the textbooks I'm going to have to ultimately buy to go along with school, I'm going to have come out of four months of work with almost nothing to show for it, savings-wise.
While some might argue the other side of that, which goes along the lines of: in four months of work, I've been able to completely pay for my tuition for my next few semesters of school, earn enough to get not one, but two very nice cars which could be resold for at least twice what was paid for them (if my dear family understood the value of selling nice cars, as opposed to driving them, which they do not and so object to such an idea), and acquire a decent assortment of other life necessities.
However, in all honesty, I wasn't shooting to buy a nice car, and things just kind of happened that way. I'm not particularly happy or unhappy regarding the money spent, since things turned out all right in the end, but it wasn't my intention to blow a third of my paychecks on vehicles, either.
Although I've heard stories of people coming out of their first work term eager to get back to the "school life", so to speak, I can't say I'm really looking forward to it. This might be partially accredited to my summer school terms being strictly inhabited by Brock accounting students -- which, although not wholly terrible people, are not a large composition of my overall network of friends -- or partially due to the fact that I only have four months of school to get through, before I get to go back to work, anyway.
I suppose the main benefit of going back to school will be that I get to sleep for more than five hours a day for a few months. Unfortunately, if I look at it that way, it'll turn out as the harsh reality: I only have four months where I can sleep for more than five hours a day, before I get to go back to what has sadly become the 'norm.
Overall, I may be sacrificing a large portion of my life towards a job that isn't always hugely rewarding. But, the pay's pretty good, and the environment isn't that bad either, once you get to know it. Plus, it comes with all the free food you can eat, and the occasional enjoyable co-worker or three.
I hope summer accounting courses aren't as shitty and ridiculous as fall accounting courses.
Between the payments ripped out of my hands for lackluster classes, my recently acquired new car(s), and the textbooks I'm going to have to ultimately buy to go along with school, I'm going to have come out of four months of work with almost nothing to show for it, savings-wise.
While some might argue the other side of that, which goes along the lines of: in four months of work, I've been able to completely pay for my tuition for my next few semesters of school, earn enough to get not one, but two very nice cars which could be resold for at least twice what was paid for them (if my dear family understood the value of selling nice cars, as opposed to driving them, which they do not and so object to such an idea), and acquire a decent assortment of other life necessities.
However, in all honesty, I wasn't shooting to buy a nice car, and things just kind of happened that way. I'm not particularly happy or unhappy regarding the money spent, since things turned out all right in the end, but it wasn't my intention to blow a third of my paychecks on vehicles, either.
Although I've heard stories of people coming out of their first work term eager to get back to the "school life", so to speak, I can't say I'm really looking forward to it. This might be partially accredited to my summer school terms being strictly inhabited by Brock accounting students -- which, although not wholly terrible people, are not a large composition of my overall network of friends -- or partially due to the fact that I only have four months of school to get through, before I get to go back to work, anyway.
I suppose the main benefit of going back to school will be that I get to sleep for more than five hours a day for a few months. Unfortunately, if I look at it that way, it'll turn out as the harsh reality: I only have four months where I can sleep for more than five hours a day, before I get to go back to what has sadly become the 'norm.
Overall, I may be sacrificing a large portion of my life towards a job that isn't always hugely rewarding. But, the pay's pretty good, and the environment isn't that bad either, once you get to know it. Plus, it comes with all the free food you can eat, and the occasional enjoyable co-worker or three.
I hope summer accounting courses aren't as shitty and ridiculous as fall accounting courses.