With the benefit of hindsight, I now know the job was to prepare me for life as a clerk or a laborer, but at the time it felt like the job was to kind of bore me into some submission with what was going on around me.
돌이켜보면, 학교가 저를 점원이나 임금노동자로 살도록 대비시켰다는 것을 알지만, 그때는 학교가 제 주변에서 일어나는 일을 이용해 저를 굴복시켜 지겹게 하려는 것 같았습니다.