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.
Con il senno di poi, adesso so che era per prepararmi a una vita da impiegato o operaio, ma all'epoca sentivo come se il loro lavoro fosse annoiarmi e in qualche modo sottomettermi  attraverso quello che mi accadeva intorno.