I have had the past couple of weeks off between finishing up final exams and before I start my summer (at least hopefully it will only be for the summer and my school-year economic situation works out alright) and I'm loving it. I get to stay up late, wake up late (circa noon) and accomplish very little. I know this would get annoying very quickly (or at least after a month or so) and not earning any money is ill-advised for obvious reasons.
A friend of mine lost his job a few months ago and has been getting unemployment since then. I hate a welfare state (or at least the taxes I pay to help it along) as much as anyone and I appreciate the value of a good day's work for a good day's pay but the work-a-day world is seeming more and more like a load of bollix.
It has more than a week since I emailed my summer job (whom I am leaving anonymous for, ironically, fear of being unemployed) with a couple of events which occur while I am supposed to train (a friend's bachelor party, his wedding and a family trip that's been in the works for a year) and I just received an email from my trainer asking when I was free during my first few weeks of employment and asking a few other questions as well. I esteem the company I am going to work for, I really do, but since I was hired I feel more and more like their service is throughly lacking for the staff (or as Home Depot calls them, or so I've heard, 'internal customers') and it is becoming frustrating.
Perhaps one day I'll have enough money to live off the interest of my investments but I, regrettably, don't think that that will happen for a very long time, if ever.
Update: I went to pre-training recently and I'm looking forward to it again. The only downsides I can foresee is spending most (if not all) of my paycheque on toys or saying bugger it to my Ph.D to work in retail 'forever' after which I burn out after a few years and am screwed.
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