Journal 64: Rites of Passage

       As a female, we go through many rights of passages, just physically. There is when the period comes, when we have a baby, gives birth, then when the period stops and we goes through the transition stage, then last but not least we die. Ever girl would have to go through the same process, there are some that skip to the final stage before others do but this is the general process.

      For me, I think getting your own job and for the first time earning your own money is a very big thing. I think it marks the time when you went from depending on your parents to more independent stage. Although most people’s first job’s salary is very low and there is no possible way that you are going to live on your own on the first salary, you have taken the first step out to the real world. I had taken my first summer job during the summer of 7^th grade turning on to 8^th grade. You might not count it as a real job because I am hire by a family friend. However that is a real job to me because I am earning money from people other than my parents, and she is paying to ME not my parents. I ride bicycle to work everyday and my job is to take care two little kids. One is 2^nd grade then other is one years old baby. The 2^nd grade girl needs to read and memorize books while I need to keep the one year old baby nice and happy. You can’t image how hard it is to keep both of them quiet, sometimes I need to change diaper for the baby while the little girl wines about why she has to do all the “works” and baby can just play.

      However I do think everything is worth it. I earn around 9000 that summer. Not much for a summer job (I don’t think I work for the whole summer anyways) but as the first job and as a illegal child to get a job. I was satisfy.

My second job comes at the summer of 8^th grade. I took two jobs at the same time. This time I work at my aunt’s tutorial class, working for two teachers at the same time. I took care of everything. I am the cleaning lady, grads all the paper, look after their homework, mini teacher when the real teacher is busy, real English teacher, guide when they have fieldtrip and create digital file for the past documents. It was hard, harsher than before. I earn around 12000 this summer.

    Some people spend all their earnings, some people save it in the bank. I don’t I save up all my earnings in my piggy bank. For one goal, I know my parents don’t have the money to provide me to school like PAS, I was going to pay for tuition feed. I end up having (on paper)   220,000 NT. However at first I gave some to my dad and told him to save in my bank. I don’t think he ever did. So when the beginning of 10^th grade, I hand in my money, I have around 62,000 cash with me and I told my dad he could use it to pay for the tuition. I don’t know what he did with it. But this is the story of my first job and how those money end up.

p.s. I think I am very weird, with at least 62,000 NT on my hand. I could have buy iphone, mac or anything else if I want them, but I hand them in. :] 
The mac i have right now is the one that my dad brought but he could not get use to it and that is why he gave it to me. We have a "deal" that i can not sleep later than 11pm, but i guess i never follow the rule.