▶ Your Answer : These days, it seems that the importance of doing
part-time jobs is getting higher than ever before. Regarding this social trend,
many parents believe that their teenage children can be educated socially and
academically for their adult life by working at part-time jobs. I also go along
with the idea that taking part-time jobs is one of the best ways to encourage teenagers
to prepare for their future life where many different people get along and
interconnected with each other. Two aspects will be discussed as basic but
crucial reasons; taking a part-time job can make teenagers build social skills,
and also they can contribute to the society by doing it.
Most importantly, doing part-time jobs makes teenagers
build social skills. In general, people who take part-time jobs communicate
with many different people in the same place during the working time. Of
course, some people might say that teenagers can contact with others simply by
going to school, so taking part-time jobs is not the best way to raise social
abilities. However, compared to the school life, part-time jobs can give the
opportunities for students to meet many people who have different age and have
a chance for social experiences, especially in the case of part-time employees
who work in cafés or big family restaurants. To be specific, students can deal
with the problems between people who have dissimilar personalities by
interacting and having a conversation with others, so it will help them adjust to
a new working environment such as private companies. For example, I had worked
on a busy café nearby my house when I was in high school. I had a problem with a
customer that I had some mistakes calculating the price of two cups of coffee since
it was too busy. At first time, I cannot deal with the situation because I just
got panicked. However, after these kinds of mistakes repeated, I finally realized
that it will not be a big problem when I apologize quickly and give the correct
change. When I have some problems with my clients while I am working in a business
company now, I usually recall the memory during taking a part-time job in café.
On top of that, teenagers can contribute to the
society by doing part-time jobs. When teenagers are working as a tutor for young
children, they have to teach academic information to them. These days, many
schools implement tutoring programs for young children or orphans, and teenagers
are also trying to do these works a lot such as preparing instructing materials
and delivering for young children. In other words, these part-time jobs can give
positive effects to the society by passing learned information on other
children for the later generation. These effects would continue for a long time
when students do not stop taking tutoring part-time jobs. |