Chapter 42 – Episode 42. After Self-Study
Study after dinner was performed stably.
Above all, my concentration was well maintained.
Time is also time, but I think that I have truly studied only when my concentration is constantly maintained.
While maintaining long-term concentration, short breaks in between were also effectively taken.
As for the place, I quite like this space that I use recently.
Studying under the bright lights of a spacious lecture hall gives the feeling of studying in broad daylight even when it is dark outside.
The self-study room is a space that is constantly managed, so it is pleasant enough.
After dinner, the time, as if buried in learning in the study room at the academy, was maintained until around 10:30.
The whole Sunday was used as a time to learn about preparing for the civil service exam.
‘This time…’
I checked the academy’s clock and checked that it was almost time to close the doors, then I put down my pen and took a deep breath, thinking that the day had gone by like this again.
“Whoa~.”
Today, I became the last survivor of this classroom.
After looking around and confirming that I was the only one, feeling a little better, I smiled slightly and packed my bags.
I pack my writing instruments and books roughly as if I were stuffing them into a comfortable backpack.
Then I put on my backpack, got up and pushed the chair back.
– Dripping
When I got up from the chair and went out, there were no people, so I thought it was also easy to get out of the gap between the desk and chair, so I felt comfortable for no reason.
It’s the little things.
But when you get stressed out from these trivial things, it really builds up.
The funny thing is, when you don’t experience this directly, you don’t recognize it well.
Leaving the classroom, I passed through the hallway and down the stairs.
The counseling room on the second floor, which I saw as I passed by it while going down the stairs, was still brightly lit, and there were no people there compared to the full daytime, but a few people were keeping their seats.
‘Some people haven’t left work yet.’
Come to think of it, I also thought that a job counseling on such academy-related information would be okay.
Oh, maybe that’s not necessarily the case.
Because what you see isn’t everything.
When I worked at various jobs to earn the money needed to study for civil service, it was only after working at a restaurant that I realized many invisible things.
For example, when I just watch people serving at a restaurant, I say, ‘I just serve.’ I kind of thought about it.
However, once I got to the place, I was instructed to do a lot of miscellaneous things.
Set up the hangers.
Wipe the floor with a scrubber.
Wipe the door
Sweep in front of the store.
Wipe dust over hanging light fixtures.
Adjust the heater temperature.
I’m running out of time, so clean the bathroom.
Fill the toilet tissue.
Remove the chairs and tables and clean the finish.
Throw away the food trash and come.
Help clean the kitchen food.
When the ingredients arrive, carry the boxes.
Give away the store promotions.
Refill spoons, napkins, soy sauce containers, etc. From time to time.
When guests sit down, set the water.
After you have finished eating, clear the dishes and then wipe them.
Count on the counter
Pick up the phone.
Help set up lunch boxes for group guests.
Etc.
There will be many more.
Among them, food ingredients are often transported, but it is heavy, so I, who is not good at jjambab among men, was in charge of most of the work, but that was quite a struggle.
What a lot
Okay. Work is fine
However, sometimes people are not okay.
When I do various things, the people who make me do things seem to be nervous about me with some sharp tone and high-handedness.
Even people of similar ranks usually look harmonious on the outside, but they are busy giving others time to do less work as if they were fighting each other.
There is a saying that you should earn like a dog and spend like Jeongseung, but I don’t know how to spend like Jeongseung, and I seemed to know that the time to earn is like a dog.
The person sitting in the counseling room that I saw after passing by, maybe at first glance I thought it was okay, but I wondered if there was some kind of stress.
It’s pretty late.
But I’m still not at work…
Is there still work left to do?
Will I receive overtime pay or overtime pay?
I’m just curious about those things.
However, there is no reason to hold on to the employee and ask such private things.
I passed the counseling room on the second floor, passed through the first floor, and got out of the academy.
The air changes.
From the stairs of the academy, you gradually face the wind, and the cool air feels a little colder when you come out.
Open air outside.
Breathing in that air, I left the academy and walked toward the studio where I live.
On the way, the many caterers in the food alley seduce me.
They include hot bars, pancakes, sweet and sour chicken, various fried foods, and hot dogs.
Many people seemed to be buying something to eat for a late-night snack or packing something.
Some people stand in front of the restaurant and eat, while others take a seat at a bar and enjoy a drink with friends.
I walked past them towards the house.
As you go from the food alley to the one-room village, the number of people becomes somewhat rarer.
However, it is not that far from the food alley, so there are shops and people.
I didn’t really want to eat anything else today.
Is this a habit?
In order not to interfere with my studies, I try not to eat anything that would interfere with my digestion, maybe that’s why I cut down on snacks.
But basically, I like to snack on snacks.
By the way, I just wanted to go home today and open a can of cold beer.
You can see it as a day when you want more to drink than to eat.
On the way home, nothing happened.
Usually it is.
It seems that things are getting better these days.
It’s a day with nothing to do.
After getting a job, I even think that I might miss this period.
I felt this while doing part-time jobs, but in the end, it is not that the work is difficult, it is the people who are difficult.
It’s my opinion that with just one lunatic around, any good job can be hard enough.
So a day like this is good for me in terms of peace of mind.
These days, people say that neighbors are disappearing, but I think it was a climate that was possible because it was at that time.
There was also a history of helping each other in an agricultural society…
After that, Korea developed quite rapidly, and in the process, there were not significantly more people in their 20s and 30s who were unemployed compared to now.
Everyone is doing something, everyone is starting a family, but since there is a certain level of stability, I wonder if there was time to look around the neighbors.
However, I don’t see that people in the past weren’t having a hard time.
Doing a job will be difficult in the past and now.
I just think that the current situation is that the job search hell in modern society, where opportunities to work are not given properly, is getting more and more serious.
Are you still happy?
Although it has become more difficult to get a job, it is still true that I have been to the military these days, where there is less harshness compared to the old army, where there was a lot of harshness.
As I trudged along and thought about that, before I knew it, I arrived at the studio where I live.
Entering through the door in the middle of the decorative fence that doesn’t seem to help at all, I came to my room and entered the password.
– Clap
As I open the door and enter, darkness greets me.
It’s a pleasant jet black.
It can be seen as the darkness of relief that can be felt at home after a day of study.
I came in and shut the door.
Then he came in, dropped his backpack on the front porch, and turned on the light.
I was thinking of doing some washing up.
This house is pretty good around here.
Since there are many kosiwons, the studio itself is a relatively good house, and I live in a place where the soundproofing is good among those studios.
I went into the bathroom at home and took a shower first.
After washing thoroughly from head to toe, you feel refreshed.
It seems that being clean is something that somehow gives me a sense of relief.
After taking a shower, I wiped off all the water, put towels, underwear, and other laundry in the small drum washing machine inside the studio, then took out comfortable clothes from the closet and put them on.
‘I’m a bit thirsty, so let’s have a can of beer.’
Then, after putting on a warm jacket, he pulled out a new, chubby, cool beer can from the fridge, and went outside.
The place I headed for was the rooftop.
It is to take a moment of mental relaxation while looking out at the scenery from the open rooftop and drinking a can of beer.
I went to the ledge on the roof.
It’s a bit chilly outside.
Still, there are still good things about this.
It’s been fine all along, but it can be said that it started to get a little cold just a few days ago, but compared to the cold of winter, it seems that it is difficult to see it as such a strong cold.
And I ended up drinking beer, as I sometimes did, looking out from the railing.
In addition to the freshness after taking a shower, drinking a cold beer with carbonation was like a slightly refreshing feeling.
After studying all day, I feel like my head is a bit muddy, but I also feel like my stress is relieved after taking a break like this.
Still, it’s a bit of a burden to have to go to study after another glass of beer and go to bed, wake up and wake up scared.
I want to blow away the life that happens like that while passing this exam.
I felt the harmony of the freshness after a shower and the cool carbonation of beer, and looked at the world outside the railing as I drank beer.
“Gulp, gulp…”
The carbonation of the beer down your throat is always refreshing.
It was especially good because it was cold carbonated.
Certainly because it was Sunday night, there were fewer people walking around than on weekday nights.
And it feels like the number of people is slightly less than when I first came to this goshichon.
I look down at people and think that way.
If only I could pass this 9th grade civil service exam.
Then I wondered if I would be above all the people who roam down here.
Not all of the 800,000 civil service candidates will be unemployed, so I won’t be above all of them.
Still, I thought that I would be higher than 500,000 to 600,000 people.
Even if becoming a 9th grade civil servant does not seem so great in terms of money or power at first glance, it may be possible to rise in social status above a huge number of people, reflecting the current social situation of employment helpers.
In addition, in a state where I already have some human value due to my respectable appearance, a little or a relatively large social value in modern society is added.
It was still going smoothly.
Like the wind blowing from the rooftop while drinking beer, at least so far, my studies have been going well.
This is my third civil service exam, and I was close to passing the first exam.
There was also a case where they dropped by an average of 1 point, almost a sheet of paper.
Studying is going better now than then.
Of course, the difficulty of the civil service exam is getting higher and higher every year, but if my skills go up beyond that, it will be a worthy game to try.
Since I finished studying for the day, I was more free to think about other things unrelated to studying.
Then I thought of Joo-Hwan and Jong-Hoon as well.
I put my hand in my pocket and took out my cell phone that I had tucked in when I changed into comfortable clothes.
When I turned on my phone again, there were several missed messages from Joo-hwan, and I was invited back to the 3-person chat room.
I read through the message there.
[Hey Lee Jinhyuk, let’s go today only!!!]
[Gazua!!]
[Hey, she doesn’t answer the phone in this century]
[Do it until you receive it]
[Your phone is off, bastard]
[Lol]
[A toxic guy is studying hard]
[Ha, no big deal, let’s go by ourselves]
[See you at 10:00 at Lotteria next to the club]
[Yep]
[Today, let’s run just 4 hours standing]
[Goes out with the dog fully set up]
[I bought new clothes, I’m all worn out]
The message in the chatroom ended here.
Seeing the conversation between Joo-hwan and Jong-hoon made me laugh.
Their conversation felt a bit childish.
Running a club is not something that I would risk my life for like them, but it might be something I can think of as just going out dressed appropriately and walking around with a bottle of alcohol.
But even when they try desperately, they almost always fail.
‘This time…’
Looking at it, it was still a little after 11:00.
If I put my mind to it, I could join the group of Joo-hwan and Jong-hoon, assuming I’m going to Gangnam by taxi now.
I had a bit of energy left over today.
The condition is a little better than the other days.
I thought for a moment.
Tomorrow is Monday.
Like Joo-Hwan or Jong-Hoon said, wouldn’t it be okay to hang out at a club in Gangnam until 2:00 in the morning?
