Monday, September 13, 2010

I never want to be academically suspended ever again

Okay, so for those of you that don't know, I am academically suspended this year. This is because of a number of stupid beliefs and personal errors that I made. Nonetheless, what happened was that I failed most of my electives. Namely, the damned arts electives with essays. Anyways, doesn't matter.

I worked this summer at Chipworks, an IT intellectual property company with fantastic work environment that my dad worked at for the past 10 years (i.e. 95% of our time in Canada). Working at that place for two months seriously made me underestimate how hard it is to make money. This is not to say that I did a bad job at CW. In fact, I think I did fantastic work there because I just did what I'm naturally good at, which is research, working with internet, and sitting on my ass for hours at a time with intermittent piss/smoke breaks.

After that, I stupidly decided to look into other jobs, namely, restaurant kitchen jobs, because I "wanted to know what it's like to work at a restaurant" and that "everyone growing up have worked in shitty jobs before" and that "restaurants might be fun." Biggest mistake ever, because all these myths have been dispelled in around 4 five-hour shifts.

I can honestly say that working in a kitchen is the worst job ever, and that I'm reminded of how limited my physical capabilities are. I mean, I bike fairly regularly, fairly far, so I'm in good shape right? Wrong. Not being able to sit for five hours at a time, constantly moving large, heavy dishes and kitchenware, as well as having to put up with dirty dishes and nauseous chemicals is just a whole lot of no fun. Even worse, is when people around you do this day-in, day-out, and actually enjoy it. That was the worst and the most tiring work experience I have endured my life; it is beyond the scope of my physical endurance. I quit after 4 shifts in 2 restaurants.

So now, I am employed as a cashier at Canadian Tire. I heard good things about it, and I have heard that cashier is not too bad of a job in terms physical exertion. Well, we'll see how this goes, but the break policies is worse than at Quiznos, which was a quick break every hour or two. Here, it is five, so I have to stand for 5 hours at a time. Crap. Get me my knee supports.

Which brings me to this: why the hell am I in this situation in the first place? If I got my education and my shit together, I would never have to grind my ass on these sort of jobs. Jobs like this is why people get an education. I never want to be academically suspended again. When I get back to school, I will destroy the hell out of my studies, it will make the professor stupid. Man, I'll never fuck up in school ever again.

Which brings to my lesson learned: only take CS/Math courses and foreign language courses i.e. what I'm GOOD at.