The author of the article is the Family Education Staff. The title is “Is Your Teen Ready for a Job?” This article was about the pros and cons of a teen getting a part-time job and what a responsible parent should do if they were to get a job. A few interesting facts include that teens that work no more than ten to fifteen hours a week actually receive higher grades than teens without a job at all. Teens with a job that work any longer than that typically get lower grades. They also are associated with drugs and alcohol because of the connections that they have with their older co-workers.
I feel that teens should not get a job unless there is some outstanding circumstance that makes them have no other option. This is because a job really takes up a lot time that a teen could be using for studying and keeping up their social calendars. Colleges really love to see extra-curricular activities and those typically happen directly after school along with sports. The solution of making your hours later will also cause problems when you have homework or projects that have to be completed. I know someone that works a job that makes him do long hours almost every day because he is eighteen. However, he is a senior in high school and his work is suffering along with his sleep because the job is taking up so much of his time. He had previously been arrested for illegal activities before he turned eighteen. This was most likely due to the relations that he had with his older co-workers.
This information will benefit me by supporting my idea of getting a job after high school. The job that I would be interested in after high school would be having a paid internship on a movie set. I would like this job because it could lead to many great things like being discovered. Or it would introduce me to what my career will be like in the future. This would also open many doors for me. I would like to have my hours any time from 12-10. I would not even mind getting paid minimum wage. This article applies to the workplace because it describes what it is like for a teen to have a job.
Responsibility: the social force that binds you to your obligations and the courses of action demanded by that force
Job: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
I feel that teens should not get a job unless there is some outstanding circumstance that makes them have no other option. This is because a job really takes up a lot time that a teen could be using for studying and keeping up their social calendars. Colleges really love to see extra-curricular activities and those typically happen directly after school along with sports. The solution of making your hours later will also cause problems when you have homework or projects that have to be completed. I know someone that works a job that makes him do long hours almost every day because he is eighteen. However, he is a senior in high school and his work is suffering along with his sleep because the job is taking up so much of his time. He had previously been arrested for illegal activities before he turned eighteen. This was most likely due to the relations that he had with his older co-workers.
This information will benefit me by supporting my idea of getting a job after high school. The job that I would be interested in after high school would be having a paid internship on a movie set. I would like this job because it could lead to many great things like being discovered. Or it would introduce me to what my career will be like in the future. This would also open many doors for me. I would like to have my hours any time from 12-10. I would not even mind getting paid minimum wage. This article applies to the workplace because it describes what it is like for a teen to have a job.
Responsibility: the social force that binds you to your obligations and the courses of action demanded by that force
Job: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money