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Oh Tell Us Another One
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I have just about heard everything. How about this, a report
reckons that Australian university students spend so much
time looking for part-time jobs their academic studies have
gone to the pack.
Apparently almost 15,000 of some 30,000 uni types interviewed
said they had to cut class to go to a part-time job. Horror!
Almost three-quarters of them actually had to work while
studying. Massive Horror!
And .... (this is the one I like) student union leaders say
that while a student used to be independent at 22 (is that
months or years), it is now about 25. God help the poor parents,
I say.
Why does this not have me concerned or feeling some pity
for the young ones? It may have something to do with the fact
that while a student, this chap worked on an almost full-time
basis. In fact, many old cobbers did too. Why? Because we
had to.
Working and studying is a very good lesson in time-juggling
and working out priorities. I have to eat, therefore I work,
I have to study, therefore I party less. It is not easy knuckling
down to some serious study when there's a gaggle of gorgeousness
around the corner having a party - but if you want to be anything
other than a street sweeper - then it is one of those nasty
parts of life you just have to put up with. Just like taxes
and death.
Now one of the great inspirations to students everywhere
should be the wonderful Nell, who not only studied full-time,
but worked four full days a week and then turned into a party
freak on weekends. How she managed to keep it up I don't know,
but her grades were excellent and so was her bank balance.
I reckon students should give their union a bell and tell
them to stop being so embarrassing. No one listens to student
unions, except students, and only until they get out in the
wide world and see that perhaps the cloistered atmosphere
of the halls of learning is not the actual way of things.
Well, that's it, I'm off. We're burying Enid today and I
don't want to be late.
If there is something that has really got up your nose,
let Grumpy Old Coot know at grumpy@webwombat.com
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