Finally my summer has begun! So far today I've done nothing but eat, read, check email, and surf the net. Ah sweet freedom! Too bad it isn't going to last. -_-;
Since my high school years I have been faced with the reality of the necessity of summer jobs. They haven't even been part time summer jobs, but full-time, nine-to-five, five days a week kind of jobs. I still remember thinking, before I started working, that I would prefer work to school simply because you don't get homework from a job. How wrong I was. Not that I have to take home work, but school is infinitely preferable to full-time employment. Maybe it's because I am not a morning person and I have to wake up around six in the morning to get to work, but I find work incredibly draining. When I get back from work I just want to sleep, or to read, or to do something that doesn't require a lot of effort on my part. At least during the school term, when I'm not in class, I have plenty of energy to go out and do things. Right now I'm glad to be done school, but in a month or two I'll be looking forward to the new term. I can't imagine how I'd survive working full-time full-time, as in, every day of the year. *shudders*
Another problem is that I tend to work straight until the beginning of the new school term. So it ends up that summers aren't really a time of rest for me. I get back to school and I am just dead from work, and I don't have energy to focus on my studies the way I should. Really, it's quite a serious problem that's been plaguing me for the past few years. Still, work is necessary. I don't save nearly as much as I should, but if I didn't work I wouldn't have anything to contribute to my own education. Plus I spend like mad, and I've come to count on my summer earnings to support my anime "habit." =P
Even before I started working summers, I spent much of my vacation time involved in various volunteer activites. So now, when I think nostalgically about lazy summer vacations, I have to think all the way back to elementary school. ^^;; Of course, even those days couldn't have been that great, considering the excruciating boredom I was overcome with at times.
It makes me wonder if there really is such a thing as a perfect summer. I mean, when you have the entire summer free you get bored from having too much time to kill, but when you work, you don't have enough time for yourself.
