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Should University Students Have Part-time Jobs

There have been tremendous and thorough changes in the value and philosophy of most university students over the last century, thus more and more college students wish they had a part-time job in order to help their parents pay the increasingly higher college tuition and be economically independent. Actually, the part-time jobs can provide university students with a precious opportunity to know the outside world. Whereas, there are still many people who believe that students just need study hard, and have the part-time jobs is the waste of time. They claim that student cannot do the part-time jobs even if they can finish their study well. Although these opponents think that part-time job should not be taken, as far as I am concerned, college students have part-time jobs is good for them.

Opponents of having part-times jobs argue that it is bad for the students’ study. After the concurrent work, some of the students completely burned out, even get sick, consequently they are unable to attend class or they will sleep in class and skip the homework. In other words, teachers frustrated trying to teaching the tired students. Other students may drop out school to work full time. Admittedly, the argument is clearly shows that the disadvantages of having part-time job; however, they do not know that the part-time work will bring more benefits than detriments to the college student’s study. Firstly, due to the job, students

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can learn useful and new life skills; it is the vital part of their ability. Then, part-time jobs will open their minds, broaden their mental horizons and enhance their practical ability. Last, students can gain some society experience and obtain more choices about their future.

Another argument advanced by opponents of having part-times jobs is that students will have extra money to take drug and use alcohol, also they are able to buy luxuries makes teens materialistic, unrealistic about lifestyle. Nevertheless, students will know that money is not easy to earn only if they make money by themselves. It is necessary for students to build the accurate value of money. Furthermore, the part-time wages can contribute to their daily expenses for lifting their parents’ financial burden.

In brief, it is evident that having part-time jobs do reap a lot of benefits. To my way of thinking, college students can get more useful things from the part-time jobs. Hence, students should grip the every opportunity to do a part-time job.

These days, it‘s not uncommon to find that some children ar

e taking certain type of paid work in many countries. While some people, Idontknowlly astonished by this fact, firmly consider it as absolutely unreasonable, I finally fail to check out anything wrong about it.

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Those subjective and overreacting arguments do have one concern in common: children’s learning. It’s without denying that taking a part-time job will take up more or less time of the children, which is originally supposed to be devoted to their study. In fact, far beyond books, learning means keeping the mind open and active to receive all kinds of experience. Taking a paid job actually provides the children a rare opportunity to have a glimpse at our society. This experience itself may help children to gain fuller acknowledge of their motivation, expectation and final objective of the education they have received. Some more direct benefits may lie with the children’s skill of managing time. Realizing that less time is left for study, a child may automatically cut down on the time wasting in some other less important activities, such as chatting ceaselessly on the phone with a friend nearby or watching TV. With the wise guidance of his parents, this child will surely perfect his skill of operating time, which is of paramount importance for a person living in such a competitive world.

Besides all these mentioned above, there are other less important benefits from a paid work for our children, such as easing their parents’ financial burden, teaching them to take responsibil

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ity to make their own plans for spending, etc. Thus, I completely advocate our children to take some kind of paid work in order to enjoy all the great benefits.

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