And the beat goes on…

Currently I’m taking two evening classes at SIUE. My Tuesday class is a Business Ethics class which is interesting considering it is ethics…and business. The teacher had given us an option earlier in the semester for extra credit in a group setting for his research project. I along with two girls, who are probably 20 years old went in after class and began filling out a profile form. Most of the questions were general. Name, age, sex, race, education, and then it came to work experience. It asked how many years of work experience did we have. I’m 29 and I started part time working when I was 16 so most educated people would say 13. However I didn’t want to believe that I was in fact getting older and had 13 years of working experience. That means they were 7 when I started working.

So I said to the girls knowing fully their response but I hoping they wouldn’t “Are you including your part time working experience.” Both of them simultaneously said “Yea”. One of them kind of giggled and said she wouldn’t have any experience if part time wasn’t included.

Ouch….ok I get it 30 is around the corner, thanks for the reminder. We did the extra credit and additionally the teacher paid us! It was $17 but I felt bad taking it because I was more interested in the extra credit and told the teacher so. His response was that money is allocated for this research project and wrote off already so I should just take the money and buy some beers for my buddies. The girls had their money tightly sealed in their purse’s by now and I thought well that will be long time off. I guess this goes into Allies fund.
As we walked out each of them said they didn’t feel bad at all and that they desperately needed the money because of this, that, and the other. Live it up ladies…because the beat goes on.