Essay about Working Throughout High School

A student named Andrew Braaksma wrote an article in a newspaper called, “Lessons from the Assembly Line”, explaining his story about his summer occupancy while being on vacation away from college. The author writes about the lessons, experiences, and knowledge he had gained from his summer job away from his college campus. Andrew Braaksma explains both roles as a student and as an employee sharing these lessons he learned about the value of an education. Andrew shows his audience the benefits of working and why valuing an education is so vital to an individual’s future. The author’s goal is to inspire young college students to value their education, explore the workforce, and appreciate how employment can benefit them by sharing his own experiences. Being employed or working while attending school is very valuable because it teaches you the concept of financial obligation, gives you a strong worth ethic, and teaches you many lessons about the real world, and how important an education is.

Everyone has thought about getting a job, even if they do not have one, and the argument of whether or not teenagers should get jobs or not, is a very controversial issue. The biggest issue people see with teenagers getting jobs is that it will affect grades and participation at school, which can be true, but the key to anything is to make sure that it is done in moderation. Obviously it is true that if there is a teenager trying to work five days a week, and balance school, they will most likely struggle in school. This is especially true if they work long hours. On the other hand, if they only work for three days a week, and only a few hours each day, they can get the benefits of having a job as a teenager, and still be able to focus in school. Experts even say that having a summer job can help prevent the “educational backsliding that happens between school years for high school students” (Belsner 1), which is something that many students struggle with, because unless students study over the summer, they usually forget some of the things they learned the year

Jobs in high school are more than paychecks. Author Jeffrey J. Selingo writes about how students should work while they are in school in “Why More Teenagers And College Students Need To Work While In School.” Selingo builds an argument that explains many reasons why they should have a job during school by explaining the losses and the benefits of working. Selingo opens with an anecdote that explains that students are unprepared for jobs in their future when they are employed. For instance, he mentions how he continuously hears from employers that “many of today's college students lack basic work experience”(Paragraph 1).

Employment can have a positive effect on my learning because it motivates me to do the best I can so that I can achieve my career goals. It would also benefit me because if I was employed with a part time job, I could have money that I would buy nice things with. I enjoy luxury things so by getting a snippet of what I can buy with the money I’m already earning can be a motivator for me to do well so that I can get a proper job and earn a lot more money which means having nicer things which I would enjoy and be my reward for doing well.

On the other hand, part-time work may affect the potential of teenagers to become someone much more significant in a society than they are when performing standard operations at McDonald’s or any other fast food restaurant. Due to intensive work most teenagers that

When in the Course of Human Events, It is necessary that high school students have the opportunity to have jobs at their age. It is necessary they have one so they can provide for their families by helping paying the bills and buying groceries, also to be more prepared for the real world that awaits them after high school.

Some students are already prepared for what comes after they finish high school. Not all students work at the same pace the faster students can finish high school and are ready to get a job. The

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

     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.”

Starting to work at a young age has shown me a little preview of what is ahead of me in life. I may not be paying mortgage, electricity bills, or even my own phone bill, but I know what responsibility comes with bills. Having a job, managing to go to school, and still being involved in school activities has been stressful, but I try my best in everything I do and try to have positive outcomes in every situation. Working has provided me with the experience and skills that I will need in my future career as an entrepreneur.

In the American culture is normal for most high school students to have part time jobs. On the other hand, high schoolers are not expected to work. There are many reasons for that, but one of them is that it

Laurence Steinberg discusses in his essay “Part-Time Employment Undermines Students’ Commitment to School” that students who have a part-time job do not do as well in school as other students. Working twenty or more hour shifts per week can interfere with a students grades and accomplishments in school. Steinberg states, “That the key issue is not whether a student works but how much time he or she devotes to the job”(472). I work a minimum of twenty-five hours a week making and that makes it difficult to complete my homework or study because I come home very tired and drained from my job.

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

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.

I’ve just entered my senior year of high school. I know that this is a very important year. I have a lot of decisions to make and not much time to make them. These decisions will either make or break my life, and I want to make sure that I make them to the best of my ability because there is no turning back. I need to make sure I definitely want to attend college. The decision is totally up to me. There are many positives and negatives of attending college. Go over them, and then decide. I know myself better then anyone else, and I won’t let anyone else tell me what to do. I will make sure if I am going to attend college that I have something in mind that I will want to do, to succeed in. Choosing a major can be a