Bums

Today I ran into a fellow student in the Poco programme who I hadn't seen all semester. She told me that she works 40 hours/week while taking the course full time. I felt like a major bum. 

Then my sister told me about a co-worker at the nursing home where she works who holds two full-time jobs. After she gets off her day shift at the home, she goes to her evening shift at another nursing home. I felt like a privileged bum. 

I found a potential job beginning in June that runs for six months (the exact length of my work visa). It's an archiving job that involves indexing and preserving documents from Yorkshire that have historical interest in an international context. Catch is, I would be working full-time during the summer while having to write my dissertation. Considering my two encounters with real hard working people today, I'm going to send in my humble-pie application.