It is a common belief that it is good for teenagers to gain experience by getting part-time jobs. However, there is more persuasive argument that the teenagers should focus on their study because it can distract students.
On the one hand, part-time jobs teach students about
the virtues required to succeed. Observing experts at workplaces and having
conversation with them help students develop their insight of industries. When
students look for jobs, this experience helps them to be prepared since they know
what is required to be successful. For example, students who are applying for
medicine in the UK sometimes need to have experience for shadowing doctors. By
working at hospital, students can develop communication skills which are necessarily
need to be a doctor since hospital is such a multidisciplinary working place. Moreover,
it can be opportunities for them to re-confirm their goal by knowing their dream
job is really going to be. This suggests that teenagers sometimes need to get
part-time jobs while they are still in school.
Nevertheless, getting part-time job as students in
school distract study and make them weary. Doing great for both academia and
work can be too much burden for teenagers. Whilst students’ first priority should
be studying, they would consume times for working. According to recent research
that student with part-time job academic performance much lower than the student
without it. It can be analyzed that one of the reasons is the student was too
tired to study so that they couldn’t focus on their classes in school. This suggests
that students better invest their time to study.
To sum up, while there are some advantages to
teenagers getting part-time jobs, it is evident that the disadvantages of
having work while they are still in school outweigh them.