FRED: But listen—if you’re scheduled forty hours a week, what are you trading for forty hours of pay? CLASS: [uncertain, murmurs various answers] FRED: Your life. Do you realize we never get that back? You can’t hit the rewind button on life. It doesn’t go backwards. If you picture who you’re working for every day, that little boy or that little girl, you’re going to work harder. I promise you’ll try harder. But whatever that is, whoever you’re working for—you’re trading your life every day. Your life! I’d make sure you get the most out of it.
