Serving in Florida

While reading Barbara Ehrenreich's story "Serving in Florida" I was relieved all over again that I went to school and got a job where I didn't have to do this everyday. I used to do the same thing while trying to get through school. I would work at Iggy's sportsgrill after school during the week and weekends I would work lunch shifts and work as a coctail waitress at Liquid Joe's at nights. I usually wasn't home until 3 or 4 in the morning. I never got a break until I got this job in the field, which I only got because I was a student at the school I am working at. Through this entire story I just kept thinking.. Wow, I've been there.
My favorite part of this story was where she said "The only thinkg to do is to treat each shift as a one-time-only emergency." and "Forget that you will have to do this again tomorrow, forget that you will have to be alert enough to dodge the drunks on the drive home tonight--- just burn, burn, burn! That mentality is the only way I made it through that period in my life.
I liked this story alot because Ehrenreich is right. As hard as college is when you finally finish your life will be better, and its worth it.