Wednesday, May 11, 2005

You know you're getting old when...

You know you're getting old when you start envying students their summer jobs.

He clearly doesn't remember being a student too clearly. This article makes me gleefully rejoice in all my adult responsibilities because they mean that I don't have to work with the public, I can work in air conditioning, I can wear whatever I want, and I don't have to worry about financial security for at least two years.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeah, even bugmenot doesn't help, the log-in just takes you to another sales pitch for the spicy insider edition.

But I used my alternate method--copy and pasting part of the opening paragraph they give you into Google (in this case, I used "black spruce tunnel that runs between Timmins and Thunder Bay.") and following the resulting link to the back door of the website. It was open and I got to read this exclusive insider content.

Anyway, I agree this is just a case of 'the grass is always greener' and he doesn't really remember being a student...

"And it strikes me often that I had far, far more disposable income when I was a student driving for the paper than I've ever seen since I became a grown-up writing for the paper."

What? I bet the disposable income he spends on the country club membership, golf clubs, balls, greens fees, post game meals and/or drinks over the course of the season probably equals or exceeds what the guy who sweeps the dew off the greens (or anyone else in the student-type summer jobs he longs for) makes in gross income over the same period.

impudent strumpet said...

St00pid insider edition, that article was free when I blogged!

For the record, another workaround that sometimes works for G&M is to copy-paste the headline into Google News. I haven't tried with this article, but it works sometimes.