Working For Success Do you know how many young kids start working at age 16?? No? Well, I don’t either. Did you work when you were 16? Did you ever tell yourself when you were a young boy or girl, “man, I need a job!” I remember saying this often when I was barely in middle school, just for the money and being able to spend as I pleased. Or have you ever question why your friends don’t have a job? I can understand why many people choose to work at an early age. Including myself, and there are many reasons why working at an early age is beneficial. One of the biggest reason for wanting to take on that kind of responsibility at 16 is for the money involved. Going out and having a job teaches kids responsibility, hard work, dedication and helps …show more content…
It’s not like they can’t do that, it’s their parenting choice. Parents worry that their children will be spending their free time working and not studying. They don’t want all their children’s free time being distracted and not focusing on the big picture. Which is college and this is understandable. Some people might not be able to maintain their school work and work. Also, some might be in sports and parents feel that having a job, work, and sports will be a big burden and too much for their children to handle. But, that is not always necessarily the case and I am an example of this. In High School, I played 3 sports total, football, basketball, and track. That never held me back though, I would get off practice go straight home then head over to work. I never complained about my daily life, although I would enjoy being home and relaxing, it was all worth it. I was also maintaining all A’s and B’s in class and never failed anything. I chose to work and have a busy schedule because of how mature it made me feel and because I liked having my own money. Having a hectic schedule having school, sports, and work gives students a good work ethic and prepares them for life after school. Some students get babied by their parents and that harms some of their life’s after they are no longer under their parent’s roof. Whether working on your game, or …show more content…
Have you ever had money or got a check and wanted to go out and blow it on some random thing? Do you blow it all away or do you say “no, I’m good” and save your money? Detasseling at an early age, I had to learn how to save my money. I realized that from age 14 to 16 I only worked roughly 3 weeks every year, so I had to manage my money to make it last. When I turned 16 and got an all year-round job and I was now getting checks bi-weekly. At 16, you ask yourself, do I spend it or not? Since I learned to save money already from detasseling, this was a no brainer, I was saving all my checks and only spent what I needed. Life lessons at an early age is beneficial to our young minds. It’s a learning process and it is much better to learn some of these adult things at an early age and fail now, instead of failing on your own as an
All schools require students to maintain a certain minimum GPA, attendance, and discipline standards in order to be permitted to continue practicing and playing with the team. Coaches push the point that school comes before the sport. Although it takes self-control to finish things on time during sports, a student who doesn’t do homework during their season most likely doesn’t do it the rest of the year either while they don’t have a sport. Whereas a student who cares about their grades and regularly does their homework and focuses in class will continue to do just that no matter their extracurricular activities during the season. One of the lessons I've learned from playing a sport is how to manage my time and keep an organized environment. In my opinion nothing could have given me the same motivation to figure this out besides wanting to do well while playing soccer. Making an assumption like this is not fair nor valid when there are different types of
Image being a student-athlete in college. You still have to go to class like every other student, but on top of that you have to attend practices and games. Sometimes the games will be out of state, requiring you to leave your school for at least a day, maybe longer. On top of school, practices, and sporting events. How are you going to afford your basic needs? You don’t have time for a part-time job. Not all students have the luxury of their parents sending them money either.
Most kids that have graduated high school have never been educated on the subject of personal finance, so they don’t know things like how to pay bills, or even how to do something as simple as applying for a job. According to a family friend of mine, Ron Hart; who happens to also be an award-wining author and TV/radio commentator, believes that students in high school don’t learn anything about how to get a job or get prepared financially. He states that, “ Students should prepare for a job. Maybe, instead of taking a fifth field trip to the Trail of Tears site, do one to learn about real jobs in an area they might want.” Hart believes that most basic high schools aren’t teaching students how to become financially stable for their future, which can cause major issues. He claims that “few schools teach about the value of hard work, ingenuity, gumption and entrepreneurship. Those lessons are as rare as Donald Trump bumper stickers in the faculty parking lot.” Hart also goes on to talk about how high school does not prepare you for life the same way college will. There are so many more lessons to learn there that people are missing out on. College is very important due to the fact that it will teach students more skills about finance and job seeking that most high schools don’t. In college, kids will learn how to save and budget their money, pay for their own expenses, and prioritize their needs verses their wants. Learning financial responsibility is also something that kids will carry with them throughout their jobs and their life. Having more freedom to understand the concepts of person finance will allow students to make mature decisions while easing their way into real world
Jobs won’t only support teens for the things they want, but it can help benefit for the things they need. The first things teens think of for their future are going to college and getting their first car. But, let’s say there’s a well educated thirteen-year-old, raised in a low-income family, who has plans on going to college. There’s no way their family can support him to go to college, and its funds could be over-whelming. The only way they could go to college is if they started saving at an early age. Therefore, if they got a job at the age they were at now, they’d be on their way to college by the time they graduate high school. Or, another example would be, if a teen wanted to get their first car on their sixteenth birthday. As you may know, many teens don’t get things handed to them on a silver platter, so they’d have to buy that car themselves. They might be old enough to drive, but they just turned the legal working age. Once they get a job, they’d have to wait at least a year to have enough money for the car as well as its insurance.
As one young person was heard to remark, “You can’t get a job without experience, and you can’t get experience without a job.” That dilemma can be overcome, however, by starting work early in life and by accepting simpler jobs that have no minimum age limit and do not require experience. Jobs Teens Can Do Begin early at jobs that may not pay especially well but help to establish a working track record: delivering newspapers, babysitting, mowing lawns, assisting with gardening, and the like. Use these work experiences as springboards for such later jobs as sales clerks, gas station attendant, fast-food worker, lifeguard, playground supervisor assistant, and office staff assistant (after you have developed basic office skills). As you progress through these work exploration experiences, try increasingly to get jobs that have some relationship to your career plans.
To most of us, they say they can spot success at first glance. Generally by the car one drives or how one is dressed. Some might see it by how healthy or how happy one feels. Merriam Webster's Dictionary states that success is “the fact of getting wealth, respect, or fame.” If one where to adopt this definition of success, one might go on to living a life of materialism. This mindset is deceitful and will only reward you with short term happiness, like a drug addict searching for a quick fix. For one to be ultimately successful, one must be able to overcome hardships and possess qualities like integrity, pride and patience which no amount of money in the world could buy. These qualities will make anyone strive in most, if not all the difficult obstacles one must face in life.
In many families, both parents have day jobs, leaving the student with nor ride to or from practices and games. In addition to both parents having jobs, sometimes neither parent has a job, therefore they cannot afford a car or gas to constantly run the student to and from practice. Many families also have get togethers throughout the year to celebrate various things, leaving the student the difficult decision to choose between sports and family.
In this study, the researchers examine the Student Success Skills program (SSS). ?In previous studies (Brigman & Campbell, 2003; Brigman, Webb, & Campbell, 2007; Campbell & Brigman, 2005; Webb, Brigman, & Campbell, 2005), the SSS program was effective in improving academic performance and closing the academic achievement gap for low- to mid-range-achieving students? (Miranda). This program focuses on goal setting, progress monitoring, memory skills, social skills, interpersonal skills, social problem-solving, listening, teamwork, self-management, motivation, and anger. Research has shown that these skills have helped close the achievement gap and help in the academic success of student. The results of this program have shown that posttest score is significantly higher in math and reading. This program main focus was to help African Americans and Latinos, however this program showed similar gains amongst the African American, Latinos, and White students. The benefit of this program is that not only will this program help in closing the achievement gap, but it will help all students succeed in school.
In current times, success seems to determine everything about an individual. One of the main reasons people go to school is to grow up and become successful. Success is the reason anyone does anything. Whether it be a small or large-scale success does not matter. A person might make a sandwich to succeed in fighting off hunger, or a basketball team might take time to watch more film and spend time together as a team to succeed in winning a championship. Either way success motivates people. The question that goes with it is, was I successful? If one says yes, then they ask why? The answer almost always includes some amount of preparation. Because a success without prior preparation is uncommon. No matter what, we humans strive
Striving for Successful I believe that making a organizational successful is to being able to meet the needs of the organization. The strength of any organization depends on the strength of the management and workforce. The organization needs to have unique and strong cultures with values of the same in order to provide excellent performance. Managing people with respect, from the time they are being interviewed for possible hire, to the time of their leaving the organization, is the hallmark of modern, successful organizations.
The true definition of success is the accomplishment of an aim or purpose. Although, many people have different perceptions of success. Success is judged by the individuals themselves. Success can be defined in many ways including: wealth, happiness, fame, etc. Success can be anything from material goods to concepts. It all depends on your concept and how you achieve your goals. You have to have persistence within yourself. Varying on your profession, you will need a certain skill level. Your definition of success can be suitable best for you, but not for others. It is about truly not giving up, reaching your full potential, and self-fulfillment.
There have been many studies that show that working less than 15-20 hours a week increases the students GPA (Effects of Employment). Work is difficult and time consuming. This teaches the students to grow up and mature; it offers them the opportunity to do something else besides studying. Although working while going to college may seem impossible, it’s actually teaching the student skills that will improve the way they are, once they leave college and go onto following their careers. Much of who you are and what you have succeeded happens during college. Working while in it helps with time management, budget-spending, and the chance to learn new things at
Success is something we all wish to achieve and even though we have different definitions of success, we all want to success in different aspects of our lives. For some success, success is attaining an education, others it's getting a good job, for others it's being wealthy, and others to start and own a business while for others it's having a family of our own and seeing our children prosper. We all have different metrics of measuring success and we all have different goals, but it is part of human instinct to want success, to want to succeed in everything we do no matter how small or big. Success gives us a feeling of development and growth, a sense of gratification that we are no longer where we used to be, but rather
Once I was about fourteen I decided I was going to buy myself a phone. My parents told me that they weren’t going to buy one for me, so naturally I started saving up for one. I managed my money well enough for about a year so I could buy one right before I started high school. After I bought my phone, naturally I paid monthly for it, so I continually kept having to save more money so I wouldn’t fall behind on my bills. I believe that with having to pay for my own phone, I experienced money management first hand. Also, it gave me insight into the future when I will pay monthly expenses, for example, an electricity bill. Once I entered my senior year of high school, however, I learned I will need to be saving and for something greater, not just my phone bill.
I believe that hard work is the real treasure of a person because without hard work we cannot achieve our dreams and goals in life. No one can achieve success without doing hard work. It starts when we stop looking for alternatives or shortcuts towards success. We need to remember that there are no short cuts to success. Hard work, complimented with an intense desire to struggle and to achieve success is the only sure way of reaching success that you have always wanted. Hard work is one of the secret for us to be successful in life. Laziness and sluggishness makes one’s life a curse and only hard work can make your life a blessing. We cannot work hard if we don’t have goals. The meaning of goal according to Wikipedia is a desired result of a