I mean sure it’s a great opportunity to be working and studying at the sometime. It’s generally quiet enough to get a good amount of personal work done. I have a few students coming up with issues with papers, and applications they are trying to use, setting up wireless and printer drives etc. To my surprise these last few shifts that I have been in the Library have been the busiest. I guess all the students have left so many things to the last minute like hooking up their wireless on their person laptops, or installing printer drives on their laptops, doing assignments last minute... etc. I guess I would have figured that as the next generation of workers we would be more organized, hard working and eager to get things done.
Hmmm... I guess not. So what does that say about us as growing society? Well it looks like we are slackers? What do you say? We leave everything to the last minute; we leave things that we clearly know are important to the last minute. I mean I look around and I see students of all ages from 18 to 50 (why yes we have many mature students since the economy went down) all leaving things to the last minute. I see the nursing student doing her theses, and the engineering student watching a soccer game instead of doing his assignment that is sitting beside him. The education students are gathered around talking about something...
Seems like I see a lot of socializing in this library... Gosh, since when was a library a cool place? I remember when I was in high school, god who went to the library? Only geeks or those kids that were sent there to do work because we were bad.
I guess I wasn’t a geek in high school, I mean I am now. I always was but a closet geek. That’s besides my point.
My point is we seem to be a society of procrastinators. Yup we sure are, we are a bunch of as I said slackers. This library is full, but yet no one is really doing anything. I see facebook, YouTube, and people talking. Okay there are some people doing work but not that many for the amount of people in here.
So does this display our work ethic? Is this how we do work around here? I mean it’s not just Canadians; my University is 90% international students. The Canadian students that are here are either right out of high school or bitter mature students that have worked and then lost work and ended up back here. You can tell who’s worked, and who hasn’t worked a real job by looking around. People who are here because they lost their jobs look angry, I mean wouldn’t you be?
I am I have to give the government more money because they basically took my job away. It’s like me saying “Hey government, I’m broke now because you chose to make cut backs in my industry... so can you help a bud out with a little mulla? Lend me some money as student loan, common Fella I'll pay ya back. You know it’s a good deal you get to compound my ass with daily interest." Government says "Hey, yea sorry about that with you losing your job. I know it sucks, but ya I'll lend you some money no problem. I'm here for ya, I'll lend you enough to cover your tuition but not your Cost of Living. I mean you'll still have to go find part time work, so you better get started on that." So of course we are bitter, I mean I have to work 2 students’ jobs to cover my cost of living expenses and I have a student loan. So when do I have time to study?
Well, it’s ironic huh.
I have to come back to school to get educated, but I have to spend my time working and not studying so I can pay for my education... Working and not studying effects my marks... I can’t qualify for scholarships because my marks aren’t high enough because I work so much... and I work so much because I can’t get a scholarship....
So if my marks are going to suffer anyway, why would I have the motivation to work hard at studying when I do have the free time?
I need a damn break, I mean when I have "free" time and I’m not at work or in class do you really think that I am going to go home and study? Hmmm, at my age I have a family. I have obligations, who’s going to do my laundry, clean my house? Wash my dishes? Help my son with his home work? Buy groceries? Free time, well I guess I don’t really have free time.
So no, we aren't slackers, not the older generation. When you see me on the computer and I am not working or studying this is MY TIME so I don't go nuts and as they say "Go postal", I mean I very well have every right to go crazy don't I?
Well maybe that’s a better idea, go crazy don't work, don’t pay tuition, don't clean my house... stay in a hospital and have my meals brought to me. Sounds pretty darn good right about now. Wouldn’t you say?
AHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Okay.
Breath.
So yea, working at the library is pretty nice.
I honestly do enjoy it a lot, but I don't really get the chance to study like I thought that I would. Students may not be bombarding me with questions, but it is such a social atmosphere that’s it’s not really a place to study anymore.
Maybe us older bitter students that are so jaded are setting a bad example to those younger students that have no reason to be bitter? Maybe we are setting a bad example to those international students that see us on facebook instead of reading our Macroeconomics books (which are sitting beside us begging to be opened). OR maybe we are simply making the statement that we have been down this higher education road before and we put our all in it the first time and if it really works so well, why are we here again?
I’m sad this is my last weekend here; I am not sure what is going to be coming up in the next stage of my life. I really need to figure a few things out in the next few weeks. It should be interesting, I guess...
I'm still thinking about that mental hospital...
Hm,... no wonder we have no work ethic we have no security. Does anyone anywhere practice work insentives?
So Happy thoughts
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