Jul 20
Teenagers often take part-time jobs during the school year and summer jobs or other jobs around the holiday season in particular. There are around one third teens are working in U.S.A by a recent survey.
Just like almost everything, teens working have pros and cons.
The Pros
- Encourage independence
- Improve confidence
- Develop a sense of responsibility
- Build good work habits
- Discover what she or he is good at and interested in
- Explore potential career paths
- Use what learned at school and understand further
- Learn work skills needed in their whole lives, such as job searching skills, social skills including how to get along with co-workers and superiors
- Develop skills and knowledge about occupations that they might pursue in the future
- Expose them to positive adult role models
- Learn time management skills to understand the value of time
- Learn the importance of hard working
- Add income which may help family
- Help them understand value of a hard-earned money
- Create learning opportunities on money management
The Cons
When compared with other students, those who work overtime, usually more than 15 to 20 hours per week tend to have some of the following problems:
- Lower academic achievement and school participation
- Overwhelming amount of stress, leading to using illegal drugs or alcohol
- Less time to spend with their families, making parental monitoring difficult
- Expose them to negative real-world life, if not prepared well, they may be easy to do something wrong
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