Sometimes I feel too old for this whole thing- the road, the endless spent waiting in these nowehere town, but then I think that age might be making me more resilient somehow.
Endless days spent chasing receivables to meet his firm's swelling payroll drove him to the brink.
Those endless hours spent writing essays and dissertations will benefit far more than just your knowledge base and degree classification.
One famous poem, "Mayn yingele" (1887; "My Little Boy"), for example, expresses a worker's estrangement from his family resulting from endless hours spent in a sweatshop.
Nor do they make up silly songs incorporating the names on their list during "call time," the endless hours spent calling prospective donors.
Boredom, too, can be lethal: Dart endures the endless hours spent in an airless, well-hidden cubbyhole waiting for wireless transmissions by consuming damaging doses of amphetamines.
The Ex-Files by Pete Johnson (Puffin, £5.99) Being dumped, as any teenager knows, spells solitary nights of misery and endless hours spent hovering over a silent phone.
Jason's Dead tour is like a hippie version of spring break at Daytona Beach: a long succession of hotel rooms, endless hours spent getting high, eating veggie burritos and watching HBO, punctuated now and then by an actual Dead show.
Even in our increasingly computerized world, dexterity with a video joystick is of virtually no value to employers, and the endless hours spent acquiring it divert children from developing skills that really matter, like writing clearly.
Investigative journalism can sound awfully dull and frustrating: endless hours spent trying to understand legal documents, calling people who refuse to talk, getting exciting breakthroughs that turn out to be incorrect.
