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.
(Risos) Com a vantagem duma visão retrospetiva, sei agora que a finalidade era preparar-me para ser administrativo ou trabalhador mas, na altura, senti-me  como se a ideia fosse aborrecer-me para me submeter ao que se passava à minha volta.