I haven't quite had a job in which I've worked for more than 9 months straight. It's been school after school so I do not know what it feels like to "take one off work." Taking one off school would've been a thing, but schooling doesn't give you much freedom, except on holidays after exams, which are filled with basically the same things - TV, hosting/visiting friends, more TV, until school resumes.

I've been quite the academic, and I can't wait to live life on my own terms.

Yours was a nice read BTW, chuckled everything I read, "Ignored a work call." It sounded like a guilty pleasure, or mischief.