You'll take what I give you

Ramit posted an intriguing idea about money is money is money. The gist of the piece can be summed up that if you are making a ten thousand dollar purchase and it is ten dollars more you should think about it the same way as a ten dollar purchase that gets bumped ten dollars. If you refuse to spend $20 but you are willing to spend $10,010 you are making a silly statement about monies relativity.
Have you ever been working on a big project at work and it's getting close to the end but your day is clearly over and somebody say's "Look, just one more hour and I think we can finish this thing out. Come on, we've already put like forty hours into this lets just finish it!". Now imagine you are watching a movie and halfway through it you realize it is sucking everything you learned that day out of your head and replacing it with oatmeal cooked three times over, yet you sit there and watch another hour to the end. Finally you are standing in line at the grocery store, it's a long line and does not seem to be moving, there is something wrong with cash register and no other lines are open. It takes you an hour just to check out, as you walk out you have a few choice words for the manager.
When I was seventeen I was skiing at Breckenridge ski resort and a lift broke. We gently swayed in the air forty feet off the ground for thirty minutes. I was stuck with one of my good friends Adam and altogether the experience was not to bad. When we got to the top we hopped off and there was resort employee handing out Starbucks one free drink certificates whilst apologizing. As he handed me a coupon I snidely stated "I don't want this free drink, I want the last thirty minutes of my life back!" to which he replied very quickly "You'll take what I give you."
To this day, I have a deep fear that I will somehow accidentally work for a company for thirty years without realizing it is happening, just swaying there in the breeze with some good friends. When my end finally comes and they give me a gold watch (do those even exist anymore?) my response will probably be "Keep your stupid watch, I want my youth back" to which I am certain they will retort "You'll take what I give you".
Time is time is time, do not take what they will give you, take time seriously. If you have put ten years in at a dead end job don't justify the next six months because you have spent so much time already there, you would not wait in line a the grocery store for six months would you?