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Sunday, January 06, 2008

7:40 PM

Studying As A Career
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We should be paid to study. I mean, really. That's what I concluded after being in 10 years of official education. It's like, we've been exploited for so long! I've been doing 10 years of unpaid work! We shall start a feud between the MOE and MOM. (They are acronyms. But if you take them per se, well. Haha for you.)

Why we should be paid to study:

1) We work longer hours.
Studying in a secondary school (especially a kiasu one like HCI, which many of my seniors would gladly attest to) nowadays spans anything from minimum 5 hours to 11 hours (7-6), excluding self-studying. How's that, you average 9-5 executive, huh? We work more than you. And we get nagged at and scolded and forced to do it, while you white-collared wimps can quit anytime you like. Can you imagine us saying Mr. Sung? I don't have to do your stupid matrices. You know what? I quit. Ooohkay. Impossible. What, holidays? So what if we have holidays? Do you want to know what holidays spells for us?

H - Extra lessons
O - Extra lessons
L - CCA Practice
I - Self-revision
D - Extra lessons
A - CCA practice
Y - Projects
S - Summary: torture.

2) We have imbecilic bosses, most of the time.
I cannot count the number of times that we are slogging our guts out on Christmas/CNY to complete the oh-so-surprising-and-delightful seasonal surprise our beloved teachers decided to spring upon us. If you think your employer was a full-blown out PMSed unreasonable, retarted, pathetic excuse of a human being, you ain't seeing nothing yet. Let me introduce you to The Dog With The Surname Chen.

Woof, woof! His bark is jarring and causes permanent ear damage (PED). His bite is extremely venomous and acidic. Plus, he's rabid (but it's common sense.)

3) It's stressful.
I haven't even gotten to the stress yet. A visible percentage of students have greying hair. Many are bald, either by stress or CCA requirements. The rest are in danger of have mental breakdowns and will definitely do so at some important school function in which they serve as ushers/chairperson/waiters.

Important Guest Of Honor (eg. President of Artic): Boy, you look a little jittery. Are you alright?

Jittery Boy, in his suit and tie and waiter napkin: No, not at all sir. I have a Physics test tomorrow morning which covers chapter 1 through 22 which I had no time to study as I was busy preparing this event the whole week, memorizing your stupid Eskimos' names and greetings. And guess what? I'm serving you people your disgusting frozen fish. I'M GOING TO FAIL MY PHYSICS TEST AND GET A POOR MSG AND BE RETAINED FOR MY YEAR AND I'M SERVING YOU THIS HORRIBLE FISH AND WIPING YOUR FOOD STAINS! Everything's all right, sir.

4) We serve as pawns in a larger purpose which we have no inkling of.
It's the same everywhere eh? We fit into this larger scheme which we're unsure of, and just do because we're instructed to. I hear about adults complain that their life has no meaning, but at least you people get paid for it. We don't! Instead we're forced to hear about your meaningless lives when we have our own meaningless lives to get on with. What a delicious irony.

So how much should we be paid? Seeing we're professional students who work long hours and produce quality results (most of the time, when we're not planning The Annual Artic Exchange), let's just put it somewhere in the 6 figures, with benefits, plus 2 weeks paid leave.

Sigh.

signed, jiasheng

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