Have you ever worked a day in your life?

Yes. First job was when I was 13...lied about my age and said I was 15. Don't know how that flew, 'cause to this day I look much younger than my age.

but then I'm only 19 yo and a student.

do you mean normal business hours, all the daylight hours, or 24 straight hours? The answer is yes!

I've done paid work for about 500 days in my life, but the vast majority of my days have been taken up by education.

Yes, many of them.

YES!

SIR YES SIR

Many, many days!

Of course. Now, if your intent was "worked a WHOLE day in your life" that might be different. Most people who have an 8 hour day schedule don't actually "work" the whole day (excluding lunch of course). Currently I figure I work on average 3 hours a day when I have work to do. Haven't done anything for 3 weeks now. No work. Of course that doesn't matter to my job security one bit. My company's goal is 80% billable hours for a whole year. I've been 100% billable this year until 3 weeks ago.

Yes!!

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. A job well done it's own reward.

Yep - had a job that was at least 25 hours per week since I was 15, been working full time since I was 21.