It's not often that I feel that my irratations about certain things should be made public, but the final straw is drawing ever near...
I am sick to death of students, I myself am a student, but the reason why I am different to my peers will become apparant.
I work insanley hard in a horrible job (Wetherspoons [read:Hellhole] in the centre of Leeds) to make sure that I can afford to study. I work very long hours, when I should be doing my uni work, I'm a music tech student, I'm currently doing stop-frame animation, we're talking HARD WORK and lots of it, and it requires a great degree of patience. I pay my own rent, my own fees and I run a car.
This is where the difference occurs. I get all the joy of working in my pub, when my peers come in on their (daily) nights out. They treat my collegues and I like shit... They piss in glasses and leave them lying around, they smoke in the non-smoking areas (as an Ex-smoker, it annoys me greatly) buy all their drinks seperatly (ROUNDS ANYONE?!) and they are generally abusive. I then think, what the heck, I'd be like that if I ever got a night off! Let my hair down and stuff, maybe not as horrible, but still, a drunkern twat.
Then it hits you, the same people, every night, they can't have jobs? Surely, uni all day, out at night, no time for a job, but where is all this money coming from? Cue the parents... "Don't worry Timmy, we'll pay your rent, it will be really hard living away from home for the first time" Ahh, there goes 260 a month "Obviously we'll pay your fees" 1075 per year anyone? "You can use your loan for food and books" near 4000 a year, for one person to buy food and books....?? 1000 overdraft (increases after the first year) NO FUCKING WONDER THEY'RE OUT ALL THE TIME. Not only that, but "Hello mummy it's Timmy, I can't afford to but any food (lies) Can I 'borrow' some money?" MORE AND MORE MONEY FOR LITTLE TIMMY, who unbeknown to mummy and daddy, who are glad Timmy is studying hard at university, is infact pissing in glsses and throwing them at people in wetherspoons, and shagging girls without using protection, AND THEY'RE PAYING FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Timmy turns up to Uni hungover everyday, doesn't learn a thing, comes out with a low 2:2 and joins the 'Uni Graduates don't always get the best jobs' catagory. We All Laugh. (except mummy and daddy who had to morgage their house to pay for little Timmys Private STI treatment!)
It's not over yet.....
My Housemate (I use the term loosly, she stays here once a week at the most) keeps coming back after staying at her boyfriends for the best part of two weeks, and tells us all to clean up and stop making a mess, don't do this, don't do that, I shouldn't have to live in this squallor, etc. Get a job you pre-madonna!
Anyway, I'm going on my first holiday in 3 years on Thursday, and I'm really excited, I'm going to visit my Grandma in spain for the weekend! yey!
I am sick to death of students, I myself am a student, but the reason why I am different to my peers will become apparant.
I work insanley hard in a horrible job (Wetherspoons [read:Hellhole] in the centre of Leeds) to make sure that I can afford to study. I work very long hours, when I should be doing my uni work, I'm a music tech student, I'm currently doing stop-frame animation, we're talking HARD WORK and lots of it, and it requires a great degree of patience. I pay my own rent, my own fees and I run a car.
This is where the difference occurs. I get all the joy of working in my pub, when my peers come in on their (daily) nights out. They treat my collegues and I like shit... They piss in glasses and leave them lying around, they smoke in the non-smoking areas (as an Ex-smoker, it annoys me greatly) buy all their drinks seperatly (ROUNDS ANYONE?!) and they are generally abusive. I then think, what the heck, I'd be like that if I ever got a night off! Let my hair down and stuff, maybe not as horrible, but still, a drunkern twat.
Then it hits you, the same people, every night, they can't have jobs? Surely, uni all day, out at night, no time for a job, but where is all this money coming from? Cue the parents... "Don't worry Timmy, we'll pay your rent, it will be really hard living away from home for the first time" Ahh, there goes 260 a month "Obviously we'll pay your fees" 1075 per year anyone? "You can use your loan for food and books" near 4000 a year, for one person to buy food and books....?? 1000 overdraft (increases after the first year) NO FUCKING WONDER THEY'RE OUT ALL THE TIME. Not only that, but "Hello mummy it's Timmy, I can't afford to but any food (lies) Can I 'borrow' some money?" MORE AND MORE MONEY FOR LITTLE TIMMY, who unbeknown to mummy and daddy, who are glad Timmy is studying hard at university, is infact pissing in glsses and throwing them at people in wetherspoons, and shagging girls without using protection, AND THEY'RE PAYING FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Timmy turns up to Uni hungover everyday, doesn't learn a thing, comes out with a low 2:2 and joins the 'Uni Graduates don't always get the best jobs' catagory. We All Laugh. (except mummy and daddy who had to morgage their house to pay for little Timmys Private STI treatment!)
It's not over yet.....
My Housemate (I use the term loosly, she stays here once a week at the most) keeps coming back after staying at her boyfriends for the best part of two weeks, and tells us all to clean up and stop making a mess, don't do this, don't do that, I shouldn't have to live in this squallor, etc. Get a job you pre-madonna!
Anyway, I'm going on my first holiday in 3 years on Thursday, and I'm really excited, I'm going to visit my Grandma in spain for the weekend! yey!
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so dont let it get to you
enjoy your holiday