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    Bring with you all a walkman with radio so, if you can hear music from a local station (that you like) and you will pass it a little better. Do something to distract ya. That works with me and my school. When I'm bored and have nothing to do, I write. Everyone is talking, and I'm writing, and I pass my free time in that way (in school).
    In this country there aren't part time jobs for teenagers, which is a shame because I want to do something someday.




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    Thats not a bad schedule. When I had my first "job" I was only working 8 hours a day maybe three or four hours a week. Which isn't bad for being sixteen in a college town, but then the next year I moved down to Colorado with my dad, and that summer my dad hired me on.. I was working 12+ hours a day five days a week doing frame work for Condo's and Apartments and such, I couldn't understand how some people had been doing that type of job for 20 years or more. The money was good, but even if you were in great shape, by the end of the week you were goin' to be tired.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Caius View Post
    Bring with you all a walkman with radio so, if you can hear music from a local station (that you like) and you will pass it a little better. Do something to distract ya. That works with me and my school. When I'm bored and have nothing to do, I write. Everyone is talking, and I'm writing, and I pass my free time in that way (in school).
    In this country there aren't part time jobs for teenagers, which is a shame because I want to do something someday.
    well... i have to help people and such... so a mp3 is no option... i write during my breaks at times, when i have inspiration... i wrote my best poem of late at work :P so its good for something...

    pever... ill be traveling the country... will be in aussie for 5 months, so no worries mate :P

    fenring, its raining here as well :P i like it when it rains, its not so crowded in the store than... customers tend to stay away :P less work for me.

    and waki, yeah, yesterday i was exhausted but today im quite fresh :)
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    Lol, my last job was 12 hours a day 7 days a week with 1 out of 3 nights on call and being expected to respond even if I wasn't on call.

    Nowadays I do my 37 hours a week and no more, I don't do overtime and I definately don't work for nothing. The only reason I work is to buy good stuff whether it's paying the mortgage or buying a new fish tank and as I was promoted in December I can afford most of the things I want.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ja'chyra View Post
    Lol, my last job was 12 hours a day 7 days a week with 1 out of 3 nights on call and being expected to respond even if I wasn't on call.
    and I'm sure you had to walk five miles uphill both ways, always in the middle of a January Blizzard, even in July. And You can't understand why people complain!

    I only joke of course.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wakizashi View Post
    and I'm sure you had to walk five miles uphill both ways, always in the middle of a January Blizzard, even in July. And You can't understand why people complain!

    I only joke of course.
    Lol, no, it was on a cruise ship and I only had to go up 1 deck to get to work and up another 5 to get to the bar, which was 60p for a pint of vodka and coke. There were plus points and I really enjoyed the job, long hours but decent money, comfortable cabin and good perks

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    What really helped me going when i worked in a factory was the fact there were men and women not too far from retirement age working a full 8 hour physical shift, so as a young healthy adult who likes to think he can cope with hard work it kind of guilted me into surviving the shift....

    Hearing about the working conditions in the 3rd world can only make the job seem better as well...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ja'chyra View Post
    Lol, my last job was 12 hours a day 7 days a week with 1 out of 3 nights on call and being expected to respond even if I wasn't on call.

    Nowadays I do my 37 hours a week and no more, I don't do overtime and I definately don't work for nothing. The only reason I work is to buy good stuff whether it's paying the mortgage or buying a new fish tank and as I was promoted in December I can afford most of the things I want.
    well... but if you get paid good... i get paid crappy

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