Summer break: a time for relaxing, catching up with old friends, and soaking up some sun. The harsh reality is, to do most fun summer activities, you need cash (cash that, if you're a broke college student like me, you most likely don't have). Luckily for us, the wonderful option of summer jobs is available! Explained by our dear friends of Bikini Bottom, here is the fast and incredibly rewarding process of getting a summer job.

In the beginning of the season, you're surprised to see many places are actually hiring.

After applying, you wait for weeks but hear nothing back.

When you contact the place of business, they tell you they have no idea what happened to your application/they only take the opposite method that you used to apply/the hiring manager isn't in for the day/they've never heard of you and make you apply AGAIN.

You feel like you nail the interview...

…but it takes them FOREVER to get back to you.

When they finally do get back to you, they tell you they won't hire someone just for four months.

Just when you're about to give up on the job search, one of the places decides to hire you (a month and a half into the summer)!

When you finally have to go to the job, you realize how much you hate it

When you try to make plans with your friends, their work schedule never works out with your work schedule.

Since its only for a few months, you'll probably have to spend weekends and fun summer holidays at work.

You try very very hard to stay civil with the annoying people you work with.

And the annoying customers.

You try too hard to impress your boss so they'll hire you again next summer.

You hate feeling like you're wasting away your summer at work…

...But you know it's all worth it when you get back to school in the fall and have all that money saved up to spend on food.