Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lemonjelly

I seem to recall reading something around human beings are supposed to sleep twice a day, not just once.

Perhaps the author was just a lazy so&so...;)

PasturesNew

I used to get up before 6am (might have been 5.30am) and be driven 3-4 miles to a small pool, where we'd do morning training, back home by 7.30, hair still wet, change into school uniform, run up to the bus stop for 8am - if I could get to the bus stop before the factory hooter went off I'd not miss the bus. Bus into town, wait for 2nd bus, 2nd bus for school. Do school, two buses home, tea, then out either land training or pool training in the evening. And I wasn't the swimmer.... my sister was, and it was my dad's dream.... and so it was easier to drag me along to it all

silvercar

Eldest has just gone back to uni a week early, "so he can study". I did suggest he could study at home during the day -OH at work, me working quietly at home or out, brother at school, but apparently the first half of the day is for sleeping and he can only study later in the evening and well into the early morning and then there are too many distractions.:(

Davesnave

silvercar wrote: »

Eldest has just gone back to uni a week early, "so he can study". I did suggest he could study at home during the day -OH at work, me working quietly at home or out, brother at school, but apparently the first half of the day is for sleeping and he can only study later in the evening and well into the early morning and then there are too many distractions.:(

I was the same & did all my important work, essays etc in the middle of the night.

I had a platonic relationship with a young lady living in another court of residence, just opposite, who was into the same way of working. We still write to each other.

JanCee

silvercar wrote: »

Eldest has just gone back to uni a week early, "so he can study". I did suggest he could study at home during the day -OH at work, me working quietly at home or out, brother at school, but apparently the first half of the day is for sleeping and he can only study later in the evening and well into the early morning and then there are too many distractions.:(

Students do seem to operate in a different time zone to the rest of us. It comes as a huge shock when they start work and have to adjust to relatively normal hours.

PasturesNew

I do most work through the night. Daytime's too distracting. I'm now awake until about 5-6am and waking up about 10ish. Then coming here and suddenly the day's gone.... so I can only concentrate when you lot have gone to bed.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I do most work through the night. Daytime's too distracting. I'm now awake until about 5-6am and waking up about 10ish. Then coming here and suddenly the day's gone.... so I can only concentrate when you lot have gone to bed.

4 hours isn'tnough sleep.

The old nursery rhyme about hours of sleep was: Nature takes five, habit takes seven, laziness takes nine and wickedness eleven. But now clever science bods say 8 hours.


More or less than that and...you die. Or get more wrinkly. Or something.

Davesnave

JanCee wrote: »

Students do seem to operate in a different time zone to the rest of us. It comes as a huge shock when they start work and have to adjust to relatively normal hours.

Are there many students who don't work these days?

When I was at uni, working was something done in the holidays, and then mainly in the summer, but both of my kids were into the world of work long before college. I think their experience is more like the norm, these days. Indeed, our elder daughter worked and studied at the same time, though the work was study-related.

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

Are there many students who don't work these days?

When I was at uni, working was something done in the holidays, and then mainly in the summer, but both of my kids were into the world of work long before college. I think their experience is more like the norm, these days. Indeed, our elder daughter worked and studied at the same time, though the work was study-related.

I didn't go to Uni, but I did do 2 years vocational full-time College... back in the days when that meant Mon-Fri 9-5 sitting in a classroom (they don't seem to do that these days).

I'd worked in school holidays full-time as a temp since I was about 15, and I had a Saturday job too, this was years before you had late night opening and Sunday opening. So, for the full two years I was at College I was doing:
- a Saturday job in a jewellers
- full-time temping jobs every holiday (no half terms at College)
- evening babysitting jobs
- evening job at a local restaurant/pub washing dishes by hand and clearing tables.

This paid for: my special notepads I needed, special pencils I needed, a monthly magazine that was used in the classroom so had to be bought, my exam fees, my clothes, my haircuts and everything else.

I'd get £7 for the Saturday job, about 84p/hour for temping and babysitting was £2 for about 6-7 hours (4 kids as it was 2 couples who'd go out and bring theirs over too). Can't remember how much the washing up job was.

lemonjelly

Davesnave wrote: »

Are there many students who don't work these days?

When I was at uni, working was something done in the holidays, and then mainly in the summer, but both of my kids were into the world of work long before college. I think their experience is more like the norm, these days. Indeed, our elder daughter worked and studied at the same time, though the work was study-related.

I worked part time whilst in the 6th form at school, the for a year whilst at college, and then through the 3 years of university (95-98). During summer holidays/half terms and the like I'd work full time where ever possible.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I didn't go to Uni, but I did do 2 years vocational full-time College... back in the days when that meant Mon-Fri 9-5 sitting in a classroom (they don't seem to do that these days).

I'd worked in school holidays full-time as a temp since I was about 15, and I had a Saturday job too, this was years before you had late night opening and Sunday opening. So, for the full two years I was at College I was doing:
- a Saturday job in a jewellers
- full-time temping jobs every holiday (no half terms at College)
- evening babysitting jobs
- evening job at a local restaurant/pub washing dishes by hand and clearing tables.

This paid for: my special notepads I needed, special pencils I needed, a monthly magazine that was used in the classroom so had to be bought, my exam fees, my clothes, my haircuts and everything else.

I'd get £7 for the Saturday job, about 84p/hour for temping and babysitting was £2 for about 6-7 hours (4 kids as it was 2 couples who'd go out and bring theirs over too). Can't remember how much the washing up job was.

Pffft! Should have just claimed EMA innit?;)