Self sufficiency in today's youth and young adults

[Graal]

Edit: Also, queue corny violin music to start after the second quote.

Well then I call laziness. I managed to work in both a bookshop and a coffee shop while at school and at WITS I worked as a tutor, a first-year lecturer and a video store slave after hours.

So just because you had multiple jobs at Wits a few years ago, you're assuming jobs are just as abundant at Stellenbosch a few years down the line?

Sorry, but I heard that story a hundred times while at varsity, and working a few hours over the weekend or in the evenings ain't gonna kill you. In fact, a mate of mine graduated cum laude in civil engineering and he worked through his entire university career. I understand some people work differently, have different levels of coping, etc. but IMHO if you can't handle a measly part-time job while studying then you're going to have a hard time dealing with real-world work demands once you graduate.

So far I've been working at my dad's company just about every holiday since December. Not paltry jobs either, everything the appies have to do, I do with them. In fact, more often than not, I have to do it for them. He works in the lifting equipment industry, so that includes inspecting lifting equipment, helping repair and service lifting equipment such as the goods cranes at the waste disposal sites (where I was forced to forget about my terrible fear of heights by being forced to climb up and down that tiny little ladder all the 40 metres up the crane multiple times). Half my time while working there is spent working with their biolermaker, and the other half is usually spent going on site to with inspections and repairs. Worst was the three days me and one of the guys had to go visit most of the sewage processing plants. I'd take the 40m climbs before I go walk around the zeekoevlei plant again. :/

Point being, I know how to work. It's exactly the fact that the working world sucks so much that's got me up off my ass after I didn't get enough credits to go back to Stellenbosch. It's also the reason I'm swotting at two institutions this year so I work my way back into Stellenbosch. I'm studying my ass off to make up for the hurt I caused my parents when I dropped out of Varsity last year. For once, when my dad saw my progress report card he told me he was actually geniunely proud of e, because he could see that for once, I'm giving it my best. I don't need some elitist guy on a totally random gaming forum telling me 'haha u suk because you don't have part time job'. So, you held down multiple jobs while studying. Good for you. It's not necessary to look down on anyone for not doing the same.

Oh, and good job on the racist remark, it says plenty about your level of maturity.

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