1. How does my snooze button even work still?
'Cause let’s be real, you press it more than twice per morning -- sometimes, less gently than you should. But, hey, it’s still giving you that extra 10 minutes you need.
2. Social life?
It’s my favorite day of the month!
3. Finding friends to hang out with on your night off by reading the work schedule.
Seriously, whenever you’re seeing who’s down for a few beers that night, you probably first checked that picture of the schedule saved in your phone.
4. Remembering that quiz is due by midnight, but you won’t be finished closing until 1 a.m.
So that’s a yes to me taking my break in the manager’s office?
5. Payday Friday, broke by Tuesday, and surviving the next week and a half on $8, half a jar of peanut butter, a jar of jelly, and half a loaf of stale wheat bread.
Like Toby Keith says, “there’s one in every crowd.” You may not remember it, but when you went out after getting paid, you were that one.
6. Class. Work. Homework. Sleep. Repeat.
Unless you’re one of those morning shifters -- then switch the “class" and "work.” You get my point, though.
7. “Tardiness to class will result in an absence for the day.”
That 9:05 a.m. start time really means be there before 9:15.
8. Caffeine and Adderall.
I don’t think I need to explain that one.
9. You call your parents to see how they’re doing today.
You have your own income, now, so you’re not giving them the “how have you been!?” call before following up the next day with the “I’m out of money” call.
10. The inner superiority complex when acquaintances not in school talk about work with you because you have the same job title.
Right. But what do you do with the rest of your day? And life, for that matter?
11. When your availability schedule that you give to your manager is printed directly from your class registration page.
Because you’ve gotten to the point that you’ve given up on all other aspects of your life that aren’t school or work.
12. Reprinting that class schedule for your manager more than once.
Believe it or not, those classes do last the whole semester!
13. Never making it to class on time, but religiously five minutes early to work.
I’m just a writer, not a doctor. I have no reasoning as to why this is.
14. Looking at your transcript and being able to pick out exactly what semester you started your off-campus job.
And we see a drastic change from a 3.8 to a 3.1 between the ends of these two spring semesters.
15. Having confidence in your resume.
Because the majority of your peers don’t have that cool section called “job experience” on there, and you already know it will help you land your first real-people job.
