Depends on what "extra" means to you. I put myself through 6 years of University. Worked full time in the summer to pay for school and worked weekends year round (without pay) to help the family business. Never asked my parents for financial assistance. Scholarships helped though.

I never thought of it as working "extra" hard. One might consider it "extra" hard compared to some of my peers at the time but there are also some who had it harder.

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