Dwayne Johnson once said, “I'm always asked, 'What's the secret to success?' But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.” (Johnson). According to childtrends.org, 97 percent of young adults ranging between the ages of 15-22 have held a part time job, (childtrends.org). With this being said, teenagers are aware of the collasaul effects of having a job. Benefits include building a resume from a young age, being introduced to a work environment, and possibly funding for a secondary education. Responsibility is defined as the state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having control over someone. When teenagers have jobs, they have a specific task or duty to perform in this place …show more content…
Communication skills are very important in job evolving around food services, health professions, and other businesses dealing with customers. First impressions are vital in customer service. The workers appearance, maturity, and posture are all factors that customers take note of. Keeping the area clean and tidy, being courteous and welcoming, and maintaining a positive atmosphere are all good factors in having a positive workplace. Communicating between customers, co workers, and bosses happen on a daily basis in a workplace. Improving these skills at a young age will have a positive impact on the future of students. Not only will communication improve, but as well as time management. In a workplace, scheduled hours are given to an employee. Being able to effectively be punctual for an occupation, being organized in requesting days off of work, and to properly handle a schedule. A student who has experience in managing time and schedules, will be more organized in handling the future when it comes to important events, and juggling a real occupation. As well as learning the importance of time management, building skills with money management is important too. Jobs pay a specific amount of money per hour, taxes are deducted from each paycheck, and learning skills in personal finance are all important to a student. Learning to budget paychecks from …show more content…
Decades have passed, each with a high percentage of teenagers with jobs. Parents teach their kids the importance of money, and pass down the traits of responsibility. In the small town of Mexico, Missouri, there is a five percent rate of unemployment. (bestplaces.net). Out of the 11,000 population, only 550 people are not working. Not only do teenagers benefit from obtaining a job at a young age, but parents do as well. The teenagers are able to financially support themselves, develop a sense of responsibility, and having a job is a beneficial
In “Working at McDonald’s”, Amitai Etzioni depicts the reasons why teenagers do not gain much from McDonald’s type jobs. Etzioni argues that working part time jobs especially in fast food chains undermine youngsters’ school attendance and involvement and do not expose them for the skills needed in later life. He further mentions that McDonald’s job is highly uneducational in several ways. Far from providing opportunities for “entrepreneurship, self-supervision, self-discipline, and self scheduling”, youngsters’ part-time paying jobs are “highly structured, highly routinized”. Etzioni asserts that the fast-food chains type of job do not add no intrinsic educational value to those teenagers nor encourage skill acquisition and development but
Brian Roberson, 13 years old, the main character of the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, is forced to mature and act as an adult after he founds himself alone in the middle of nowhere. At the beginning of the novel, Brian is flying in a small plane to the oil fields of Canada to visit his father. While he is in the plane he is frustrated because of his parents’ recent divorce. The divorce and a secret are keeping him unhappy; everything he cares and thinks about is this. After the pilot of the plane, the only other person in the plane, has had a heart attack, Brian is unable to act.
As teens become adults many will get jobs. Getting
Former U.S. National Security Advisor, Colin Powell, once said, “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work”. Michael Jordan put in a great amount of effort and practice every day to become a famous basketball player. Tim Cook always worked harder than everyone else to become Apple’s CEO. Howard Schultz put in extra time and work to become the Starbucks CEO. Hard work and determination always lead to success.
Currently, 55.3% of teens aged 16-24 across the US are employed and in the workforce. This raises the question, what is so beneficial for the workforce, that teens employ from the age of 16-24? In Ben Sasse's article, "What to Do with the Kids This Summer? Put ’Em to Work", he addresses his direction towards how teenagers should spend their time during the summer. He settles that teenagers should be put into the work environment to demonstrate good ethics and qualities of being a U.S. citizen instead of having a 3-month school break.
The article,”Teenagers’ Work Can Have Downsides” written by Jerald G. Bachman, discusses many advantages and disadvantages of working as a teenager. Although, Bachman has good reasonings for both sides, teenagers should be able work. There are good outcomes that come from teenagers having a job, they can learn many useful skills that they can use in the future. They could be saving up money to help pay for college. Having a job can help students become more responsible.
Learning how to face your hardships and succeed They are negative situations that can compel an impact in your life and could teach you to become better than what you are and push you to succeed in life. Tragedy and hardships act as sources of motivation for betterment and perseverance. Teenagers often have to endure hardship and tragedies that motivate them to better themselves.
These jobs are nice for the youth that need the extra money to support their family’s needs or their own needs. However, the restaurants might be taking advantage of the youth just because they are so easily replaced. Many different businesses have begun targeting youth to work for them
Since the age of 13 it has been common in our society for a young teenager to act older than they’re supposed to be. However, while some consider making there own money for doing minor labor work for their parents as “being responsible” Connie, a fifteen year old freshman, took it to whole different level. She was a reckless teenager who was all talk and no play. Instead of helping her parents out at home or thinking about her upcoming year in highschool all she wanted to do was flirt with older guys with her friends. She wanted to be involved with the wrong crowd and wanted to grow up way too quickly.
From the moment we turn the legal age to work it is socially and financially expected of us to find a job. The act of working makes us feel accomplished and gives us some self worth knowing that we are contributing to society. Having a stable jobs produce revenue flow for yourself which in turn creates a stable economy by spending said revenue. Humans have always worked and that is all we have ever known but what would happen if we took all the time in our lives we spend working and put it towards our passion, education, or even a specific lifestyle. Human life is so fleeting that we should be able to live it the way we see fit instead of working 9-5, Monday through Friday, only to repeat it for 40+ years.
Most jobs available to teenagers are part time and are unique hours pushing them to work during late times in the day. For many this means being on the roads and getting home later than 10 pm. This being said, teenagers given an early curfew could lose their jobs due to lack of availability or the unwanted struggle of making sure they leave in time for curfew; this then reduces a teenagers chance for more freedom and takes away their ability to learn responsibility and control over ones
Twelve is remarkably young to start working in this day and age. Around this age, the main thing these kids should worry about is school. Acquiring a job will only cause a lot more stress than these young people need in their lives. The amount of stress for being responsible for the school, social life, and spending time with their family. Having a job at this young age will deprive these kids of having time for themselves.
Jeff in (Policy, 2013, P6) has mentioned that youth workers failed to work effectively in schools for the following
Time management: Time management is a very crucial component if you are willing to have a productive lifestyle. To be honest, I have always had issues with managing my time efficiently. This problem had become a huge obstacle once I got into college. Thus, attending a lecture that focuses on time management helped me a lot with this problem by introducing me to different aspects related to time management: planning, SMART goals, and important/urgent matrix. Learning to make a specific plan for my daily tasks and make a to-do list to make my day as productive as possible is something very helpful which was advised to me by the instructor of this lecture Mr. Irfan.
Unemployed Youth Youth that are unemployed are ages 15 to 24 and do not have a job but are looking to work. Normally at this age youth are in high school, just finishing high school and do not have enough education or job experience that a job requires or they may be in a post-secondary school and are not able to balance both a job and school. This