Comparing High School And Work

It is significant that students have a sense of stability between working and attending college classes. To some, having a job creates a meaningful work experience that can positively reflect on having better academic achievement and success. For others, it causes stress and anxiety, because they often neglect the person whom they should be most concerned, themselves. Also, it is commonly seen that students feel pressured about paying off college funds, which shifts their focus towards working rather than their grades. Students need to be aware of their emotional standpoint, which means taking time to be organized and in good mental

Going to school along with having a job can be arduous to balance. Working for five hours, three or four days a week can cause some hindrances. For instance, when I work until about nine on a Wednesday night and have to go home and study for two tests, it causes me to have to stay up late which consequently results in losing sleep. Even though this is a disadvantage when it comes to having a job, I've learned to adjust so that I'm able to accommodate it all. This also has permitted me to develop superior time management and multitasking skills.

Balancing school work with social lives is already a task within itself. Some students are pressured by their parents, by themselves, or even by their peers to take on a part time job. Attending work, especially when the students are closing at the end of the night, takes away time, time needed to complete academic tasks and sleep. Only 20% of teenagers with jobs work under fifteen hours per week. Around 33% of part-time working students put in over thirty hours per week (Etzioni 159)! For the other 80%, especially the few working over thirty hours, leaves little time for sleep when they feel pressured to complete their schoolwork. [Insert Quote]. [I.C.E.] All this extra pressure can and will lead to stress.

Learning is an important process, especially for the young. Teenagers working while they are still in school shoulder many responsibilities, including learning. They must learn to balance their school life as well as their work life. Many are expected to maintain good grades, participate in school activities, engage in sports, then go to work and perform well. Some have to learn to prioritize either school or work. Through the process of prioritizing, they will have a better understanding of order of importance. Not only will this help with future careers, but also with planning steps for their overall future, such as

With prom, school sports and other fun trips high school has to offer, paying for all these actives may not be ideal for the parent of these high school students. Getting a job can be an option for high school students to help the student also to the parent with these experiences that are coming. Amitai Etzioni the author of “Working at McDonalds” makes it clear, high school students with part-time jobs does not do anything for the high school student. Amitai Eztioni believes these part-time jobs does not teach true skills a high school student will need in the future. Even though Amitai Etzioni strongly consider part-time jobs have no long life value, part-time jobs do prepare high school students to develop job skills for their future because learn to maintain priorities , the student learns the value of money , and develop life skills.

Academic obligations are not the only responsibilities for American high school students. One of the responsibilities that many students have is a job. The unemployment rate for teenagers is a mere 9.1 percent. The reasons why students work wildly vary. For some, it’s to earn

In the article Teenagers’ Work Can Have Downsides”by Jerald G Bachman describe how teens who are in high school that have jobs developed poor academic performances “ they're more likely to be involved in a variety of problems ” Jerald began the “Monitoring the Future “ project that monitored teens in high school and from college who had jobs and discovered a drop in the high school teens academics and made connections between long hours and problems behaviors are symptoms of issue like poor adjustments to school and greater interest in short term gratification .They encouraged for student to follow what they call a sweet spot a job that requires relatively few hours per week during the school year fewer hours the better.Student that have

The first years of high school the student should start planning to save up money for what eventually may lead to thousands of dollars every year. For example, a student can balance out school and works, like another in likelihood would do a sport, could work for about 20 hours a week and saving 6 dollars for every hour that saves up to a ton in the long run and may accumulate “...a slightly higher average GPA (2.72) than those who weren’t working student can become almost like a hobby. It is also an exciting new way to exploring new areas of interest and fresh ideas that lead up to a close perspective on what they would like to major

Another option is for the student to work as well as being a full time student. Students quickly find that trying to manage time between work and studying can be difficult. Many students who work and go to school find themselves always rushing to get things done not giving complete effort. Also, working can have a negative

This is very important for students' lives after high school. For instance, as I mentioned before, I started to work when I had sixteen years old. That helped me to get about five thousand dollars from my work. And, that enabled me after the graduation from the high school to live alone in a small dorm on Phoenix campus university. So, I used my saved money to pay my tuition of studying in university. Also, I started to use the money that I got from my work in the pharmacy to pay for the rent of my dorm. As a result, the money that I got from my work helped me to start studying pharmacy immediately after the graduation from the high school. As you can see, how work is important for students to help them study in

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Students spend four years of their lives attending high school. Going through high school is mandatory as it prepares them for college and strength to face “the real world.” Having part-time jobs has become the phenomenon among high school students and many students follow this trend as well. Moreover, there are some pros and cons attached with it. Though it may seem like working throughout high school is a bad idea, it could better prepare students for “the real world.” Although some people believe that the primary duty of a student is studying, I am of the opposite position. I strongly support the idea that high school students should work throughout high school. This is because they can earn money, become responsible and get

The first cause of students dropping out of college is due to the fact that they are unable to balance their work and school together. A questionnaire was completed by 42 first- and second-year students from a single degree program at the end of Semester 2. Findings - Within this group, 83 per cent of students worked at some point during term-time of their degree program. In total 58 per cent of those students who worked did so to either cover or contribute to basic costs of living. While the majority of students felt they could balance work and study, half of all students questioned felt that working could have a negative impact on their degree classification (Working to live). Even full-time

Over recent years the increase in students working has become a staple of higher education. The increase in tuition has caused more students to seek extra sources of income in order to pay for school. However, as work becomes more prevalent in a student’s life, so has the controversies over its benefits and detriments regarding academic success. College students should not work while attending school because it prevents them from focusing on assignments, it deprives them of sleep, and it decreases retention rates.

     We spend four years of our lives attending high school. Going through high school is supposed to prepare us for college and “the real world.” Throughout these four years we begin to better understand our choices for college majors, but we don’t get presented with the financial and time struggle that we will face. College costs money, along with everyday living. When attending college we become more independent and are faced with the problem of coming up with money and finding a balance between time for work and school. Though it may seem like working through high school is a bad idea, it could better prepare students for “the real world.”