How hard/easy is your life?

[Sam]

Some serious gloating from here onwards:

I have such an easy life right now, I can scarely believe it. I've just finished my first year at Univeristy and am on summer holiday until late September.

I have a job in Norwich. It also happens to be the best job I could possibily have in the world. I work in a classical music specialist cd shop (www.preluderecords.co.uk) and I love it so much I should be paying them. But they pay me. Rather well, I might gloat. I absolutely love my job. I sometimes have to contain myself from laughing out loud at the beauty of it.

But while I am back in Cornwall I don't need a meanial summer job (like catering for arrogant, fat, white-bellied tourists) because I know I have a job to go back to at Uni. While my friends slave behind bars and in supermarkets I am usually...asleep.

Every day, when I get out of bed, I don't have to do anything. Not a thing. I have no responsibilities, no commitments, no pressure. I don't even have to get out of bed in the first place.

In fact, I don't usually get out of bed until 4 in the afternoon.

I can relax, laze about in the sun, go down the beach, take in breath-taking views, socialize with any one of my numerous friends. I can surf the internet on my broadband connection, indulge in my collections of CDs and DVDs.

It's worth repeating again just for those who have jobs etc: I AM NOT OBLIGED TO DO ANYTHING!!!! I am totally autonomous.

And this will go on for weeks and weeks and weeks.

Even when I go back to Uni, I *LOVE* my course and I have very few hours of attendance in the week anyway.

I know the harshness of adult life will catch up as soon as I finish Uni, but that's not for another 2 years. Even then, I can come back to Cornwall and laze around indefinitely. But I am not lazy, I love to better myself and I have much ambition. When I finish Uni I am going to travel, see the world, take in other cultures, be fluent in at least one other language.

My life is ABSURDLY great. I know it's not paradise. I know I'm not a millionaire. I don't spend every day carousing with maidens who succumb to my every wish.

But in today's modern world I am living in a relative paradise.

Is your life easier than mine? Prove it. All the rest of you scum, entertain me with how hard your life is while I sit in my underpants with not  the faintest idea of what it is to stuggle.

Here endeth the gloating.

[Vermschneid Mehearties]

After Thursday I too will be free until September. Even now, my life is pretty much bliss. Can't complain about much. And then come September, I'll start one of two courses which are tailor-made for me, at two decent universities living in some decent flats.

Sounds like you've got it made (for now). Enjoy yourself!

[Doctor Stamen]

Make the most of it, me laddo!

I used to love getting four months off every summer, but by the time September came around i'd usually be looking forward to going back to uni.  There's only so much arseing around that a person can take.

[morgs]

My life is ok.  I am single guy 32 teacher, regularly promoted(!) earning a decent salary and able to spend cash on luxury items eg dvds.  However, I am prepared to say that I am often very stressed (mostly by staff, rather than pupils) so ups and downs.  Plus my mates do bugger-all fror a living eg computers and earn twice my wage which grates somewhat, especially when they moan about my holidays.  

But I am in a job I like and better off than many people so overall I'm happy thanks!

[Marcus Or Relius]

You lucky git :)

My life is reasonably okay I guess, I've got a nice flat packed out in typical batchelor style with tonnes of gadgets, with a distinctly unbatchelor aura of tidiness around it, plus I even have the luxury of cash to spend on crap I don't need after paying all the bills...but I do spend 8-hours a day doing a job I hate. It's easy, but I hate it.

But nevermind.

I had my uber-easy life at Uni too, lazing around skipping lectures, somehow keeping enough cash over for the holidays so I didn't have to work at all during summer but instead could just spend it at my mate's in Northern Ireland, sleeping late, drinking even later and generally taking it easy. I guess it's the new generation of Bloody Students (TM) to take it easy.

But it won't last. Mark my words you young whipper-snapper.

[Sam]

Jamie - And it's all for me grog.  All for me beer and tobbaco! says:

I envy your life.

Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying though I sang in my chains like the sea says:

mwahahaha

Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying though I sang in my chains like the sea says:

I pity yours, worker bee

[Sam]

My life is ok.  I am single guy 32 teacher, regualrly promoted(!) earning a decent salary and able to spend cash on luxury items eg dvds.  However, I am prepared to say that I am often very stressed (mostly by staff, rather than pupils) so ups and downs.  Plus my mates do bugger-all fror a living eg computers and earn twice my wage which grates somewhat, especially when they moan about my holidays.  

But I am in a job I like and better off than many people so overall I'm happy thanks!

Yeah, I can tell you're a teacher from your spelling and grammar. ;)

[Dr David V]

Yep, it's three months of nothingness for me too. Except I'm going to get another job and that. A year ago having a long period of time in which to just lounge around, doing pratically shit all was rather appealling. The trouble is that now I'm actually doing something I enjoy doing when I'm at college, so I'd rather I were doing stuff there, making videos and that. That feels really weird, having that reverse thing happening now. Oh well, it could be worse. I could be unhappy. Or it could be 4 years ago.

[Vermschneid Mehearties]

Just a big shoutout to the dudes at SudanOnline who mailed me with a terrific email about how they're coping with half a century of civil war. Great men, great men.

[morgs]

Yeah, I can tell you're a teacher from your spelling and grammar. ;)

Hey, I have been drinking since 6... such is the stress of my job!  You young whippersnapper!  Bring back the cane

[Sam]

Haha. I was only joshing. Have another nip of absinthe.

[morgs]

Lighting one now!  (Absinthe that is... not anything else oh no no no - my only vice is alcohol.  Just about my only vice...)

[Cerys]

My life's a doddle.  I'm a professional crip.  Okay, it means we don't have much in the way of cash, but we're pretty comfortably off; and I can lounge around indefinitely.  Yay!

[Regular John]

I'm doing fuck all until my design degree starts in September (which I got into without so much as an informal chat with the tutor and a brief look at my portfolio) and I have a fuckload of money in the bank and in savings from my last SHITTY job that made me very depressed! :)

Also I signed up for the government free money scheme (Job "Seekers" Allowance) because they can fuck off if they think any scumbag is going to use taxes I paid to buy bottles of cider and burberry caps! I use that money to pay for broadband internet and DVDs instead!

So yeah, it's easy! Anyone who wants a fight about it can have a fiver!

[poison popcorn]

my life's pretty easy i suppose. dole bludger, still living with parents, time generally spent here or doing music, with occasional bouts of drinking.

i need to get a life, but my motivational deficit won't allow it.

[mook]

The toughest decision I have to make in the mornings is whether to go fishing or play golf.

[Cerys]

Teach the fish to play golf - problem solved!

(Either that or develop a brand of golf that uses trout instead of balls.  Could be messy, though.)

[Lady Beany]

I get by.

Got a nice flat (thank you 'Loot'!), which gives the boyf and I somewhere tranquil to come home to after being stuck in the middle of the Hell that is London city.  I don't wanna leave my flat ever.  Its next to the Thames and I don't have an endless stream of cars pootling past and stilfing me. (OK, so the honking boats and barges might grate on me once in a while!)

Workwise?  Tough one.  Got a pissed of with having to continuosly work short contracts in tv, so started a 9 to 5 jobby late last year.  Tis going well, but I will get bored soon.

I can go away on a short break if I want to (after planning and saving a little aside maybe a month beforehand).  I love gadgetry (much like Marcus Or Relius and am always buying new fandangled things.

Still got a whacking overdraft though... yay me.

[TraceyQ]

I have a  paid job, a voluntary job, a house to look after, two kids and a husband who considers running the vacuum around the living room is cleanliness. Life is hard, but rewarding. You've got to put some in to get some out, y'knawarramean?

Just. Don't .Start. Me. About. Bloody. Overdrafts.

[Almost Yearly]

Quite.


My life is quite hard / easy, thanks for asking.

[Gazeuse]

I do have to work long hours and tend to have sodded up weekends and bank holidays, but if I had nothing to do, I'd do it for fun anyway. Because I work at home mostly, I can pick and choose my hours. Mrs. Gaz works with me too.

I don't have any money worries, mainly because we bought this house during the last slump and the mortgage is cheap.

It did take 42 years to get into this state though. I spent a great deal of the years before doing shite temp jobs and buying out of date food, so I feel I've 'paid my dues.'

[Rootin' Tootin' Raspberry]

yo man lifes a blast

[Timmay]

Fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off you mumbling diseased little shit.

This rant has been broght to you by Timmay, on behalf of whores worldwide, sponsored by Coca-Cola.

[TraceyQ]

One day R.T.R will say "Testify!" and I will die happy.

please don't presume you're speaking for me, gillette-boy.

[Rootin' Tootin' Raspberry]

Fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off you mumbling diseased little shit.

yo man simmer it aint so bad

[Rats]

edit: oops, not funny

[Vermschneid Mehearties]

edit: oops, not funny

Don't leave us disappointed. We'll laugh. It's you.

[Purple Tentacle]

I saw that Rats you capital shit.

You had me scanning the previous page for ages going "where did he say THAT??"

[Partridge's Love Child]

I can guess.  I think I was thinking upon similar lines and thought better of it.

[Rats]

hehe, yes, it was hillarious for all of 3 seconds.