Today high school student is getting the job experience by working at McDonald’s or other fast food restaurants. Working a McDonald’s is not an easy job because the shift hours are not stable and income is not very high. High scholars are thinking that working at a fast restaurant is going to gain an income easily, especially for those in a middle class family that needs a part time job to support their self. It might be a bit of a struggle for the high student to learn to manage their time schedule between school and work. In the essay, “Working at McDonald’s,” Amitai Etzioni believes that high school students working at McDonald’s can destroy their future. He explains very clear through his point of view that if high school students choose to work at McDonald’s or any fast-food places, it would be a waste of time because they only take advantage of them. Etzioni think that these high school students are set for low paid job because if they don’t continue with their education path then they are stuck or don’t have any other opportunity. On the other hand, I agree and understand his point. High school students are falling behind in school, but I don’t see that working at McDonald’s is what causes them to end their future.
Etzioni states that “these jobs undermine school attendance and involvement, impart
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few skills that will be useful in later life, and simultaneously skew the values of a teen -agers- especially their ideas about the worth of a dollar.” It doesn’t prove that working at McDonald’s stop them from continuing their education. Now days, there are many students who doesn’t have the courage to go to college because it is not the right time for them that is why they choose to work in these kind of jobs. They might want to work rather than going to a higher education because they feel that might not work for them. As you can see, working at any fast food restaurants can help you build customer service skills or future entrepreneurs. There are a lot of low wage jobs taking advantage from high school students, but if you are there for a long time they have a chance of being a boss or manger. Working at a fast places it not a bad idea. He thinks working in a fast food restaurant can get in the way of not passing their class or graduating from high school. If high school students can learn to balance their schedule between work and school then it wouldn’t be a big deal. I have seen so many students that have a part-time job and end up with a bright future after high school. Etzioni stated that working at a fast food place experience cannot help them succeed through college. I believe that working at McDonald is not the blame for not finishing school, it’s not true because my cousin works at McDonald’s and is still continuing his education. High school students would work any type of job because it would help them to support themselves and being dependent without getting the support from their parents all the time. Working at McDonald’s is not a waste of time like Amitai Etzioni thinks and trying to prove. It doesn’t matter what type of fast food places you are working in because you will gain that experience. You will learn to be honest, become a leader, and to communicate well with others, this can help you in places reach a higher positon. Just like being a cashier at fast food place can help you learn to manage accounting and the responsibility of handling money. These few skills are examples of working in banks, becoming an accountant or business entrepreneur. He believes that jobs generally don’t provide any kind of training that will be helpful in the future. It can be true that some job skills have a very short time to hang on but working a fast food place can gain skills and can help them in the work force. Etzioni states in his article that working at any fast food restaurant can have some advantages and disadvantage for workers in the future. For example, if someone orders something and it went wrong by accident, come back for an exchange for a new hamburger or smoothie. The employee has to try to calm that customer down without losing money, so they have to do something to satisfy the customer. It’s not an easy job to talk to someone without having to return their money; this can be an excellent experience for future jobs. Etzioni explains that working at a fast food place doesn’t teach them to save money.
I think that working at McDonald’s doesn’t teach high school students to save, but it depends on that person and how wise can they be to spend their hard earning money. Teenagers having a job allows them have the responsibility to support themselves without depending on their parent. High school students can still work and go to school at the same time and learn how to save money for college tuition. Therefore, working at McDonald is not a bad idea or waste of time nor it doesn’t determine our “American Dream”. I think that any type of job experience can’t predict our
future. I agree with Amitai Etzioni point of view, but disagree on how he thinks that working at McDonald’s is the reason why high school students are not continuing their education and their career is going down the drain. It depends on that person if they want to continue their education or just work. High school students can go to school and work at the same time if the time it right for them. Working at a fast food restaurant can be both useful and useless. Sometimes having a job there can have disadvantages, but if they can stay focus and be able to pull through why not give it a chance to experience that life making money at a young age.
Yasemin Besen-Cassino’s essay “Cool Stores, Bad Jobs” highlights why affluent teens get certain jobs. Many of the reasons she wrote about in the essay, I have seen while working at the movie theatre. Hiring managers will try to hire specific kinds of people; people that will fit in with the current employees. While being selective about hiring, the low starting wage offered deterred many, often more experienced, people from accepting the job. Lastly, work is seen as a place to hang out by some of the employees.
In the essay, “Working at McDonald’s,” Amitai Etzioni shares his strong belief that working, especially at McDonald’s type restaurants, is bad for teenagers. I would agree that working is not a good thing for teenagers under some circumstances but at other times it is good. First, jobs affect school involvement and attendance in bad ways. Second, jobs often provide “on the job experience,” but much of the time the experience taught is useless. Third, fast food jobs may provide a disadvantaged status. Fast food jobs can also provide an advantaged status. Finally, workers can learn to manage their money by making mistakes with money before they get into the Real World.
In life, no matter who you are, everyone strives to find a job that makes enough money. In addition, to also make you happy and to feel important. People that fail to do this often lose ambition and the confidence they need to succeed. There are multiple outlets to purse including college, a trades union or construction, and also the military. Unless you are able to get lucky, these are the three most common paths to take in life. Matthew Crawford is a perfect example of this, who is also the author of “The Case for Working with Your Hands.” Crawford got a prestigious degree but ultimately decided that he would be better off working in a motor cycle garage. He is proof that you can find success outside of college if you take the right direction. Anthony Depalma provided a great example in the artile he wrote called “Fifteen Years on the Bottom Rung.” Depalma tells the story of John Zannikos and his former employees where Zannikos came to this country and started a booming restaurant due to luck, not being smarter or craftier then the other immigrants. The other immigrants got left in the dust due to being stuck in a dead end job. Fast food though and other entry level jobs, is not a boulevard of dreams you can find achieve enough to find wealth and peace of mind.
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
Rodney K. Smith’s mere opinion of his publication is that children with a higher level are more like to secure a job rather than those with no or little education. His view is upheld by the statistics of bureau that gives a clear statistics of the percentage of the salary earned by students with higher education and that of lower education. This makes his claim more reliable and credible because the bureau of labor and statistics is a reputable institution in the United States that deals with the percentage of people who work in United State. Smith’s own personal anecdote appeals to the feelings of the audience in which it ignites them with feelings of possibility.
Summary: In the essay, “Part-time Employment Undermines a Student’s Commitment to School” by Laurence Steinberg, it explains how studies show that teenagers that work while attending school are more likely to loose their commitment to school. Steinberg tells the effects on students when they work more than twenty hours a week. His theory was that students are more susceptible to losing their interest in school, while working. They may have to work in the evening time, which can interfere with homework, sleep and diet. Steinberg also elaborated on how these students that work receive money that can make school seem less desirable. Also because they do receive money, they can use their extra money to become associated with drugs and alcohol.
Students spend four years of their lives attending high school. Going through high school is mandatory as it prepares them for college and strength to face “the real world.” Having part-time jobs has become the phenomenon among high school students and many students follow this trend as well. Moreover, there are some pros and cons attached with it. Though it may seem like working throughout high school is a bad idea, it could better prepare students for “the real world.” Although some people believe that the primary duty of a student is studying, I am of the opposite position. I strongly support the idea that high school students should work throughout high school. This is because they can earn money, become responsible and get experience.
Students’ wouldn’t be able to hold down a job is the second reason they shouldn’t dropout of high school. Many employers would like to have someone who has been too high school and that have been educated so they can handle money and add things p...
Sowell argues that, “… in the United States, unemployment rates for younger workers are often 20 percent or higher, even when there is no recession.” These jobs pay low wages for a reason. So that teenagers have a base to start their life as an employee. If this continues than teenagers will never have the opportunity to gain experience to eventually get hired at a higher level job. It will be nearly impossible for future generations to find a job. Unemployed will lose many opportunities to earn a higher rate of pay in the
In “Fast Food and Intergenerational Commensality in Japan: New Styles and Old Patterns,” John W. Traphagan and L. Keith Brown employs ethnographic observation to analyze Japanese reception to the prevalence of McDonald’s in Japan, taking into account the subjects’ and informants’ ethnic backgrounds and cultural contexts. Critics maintain that the invasion of McDonald’s poses as a threat to the traditional dining patterns in Japan; however, few of them attempt to examine the underlying reasons of Japanese diners’ attraction towards McDonald’s. The authors argue that, rather than bluntly intruding the Japanese culture, McDonald’s naturally gain popularity amongst the local customers because of its exemplification of the deep-rooted Japanese values of commensality.
...ing the mindset of the students to aspire for jobs that they will be able to pay off their hefty loans. Students aren’t reaching for their passion but rather an apathetic job that society is forcing on them.
McDonalds is one of the most well known fast food restaurants in the world. It is so popular that it sells seventy-five hamburgers every second and is shockingly also the worlds largest toy distributor (Lubin, and Badkar.) The powerful company is an overwhelming influence not only in the worlds economy, but also the worlds holistic lifestyle and health; therefore, McDonalds must be carefully monitored-carefully monitored meaning every move, every change, every single action the company makes needs to be a healthy one. Since the McDonalds business is unbelievably large, it has to manufacture a lot of food, and in a fast food business more in numbers means lower quality. But the food served isn’t lower quality. The food is not even food. It is poison! The chain restaurants food that is sold to the world population contains over 70 cancer-promoting ingredients (Roberts), not to mention it also contains preservatives that are butane-based, bleached flour, and the main ingredient found in silly putty (Breyer). It is clear that McDonalds does not sell food that anyone should be eating; yet, it poisons 68 million people a day, or in other words one percent of the population (Lubin, and Badkar.) 68 million people poisoned every single day. This atrocity absolutely without doubt needs to be stopped.
• By working every day, children miss school and the proper education that could enable them to find
It is very common that many high school students hold part time jobs while going to school. When these teens work, they are able to learn and experience life lessons from ethical and moral work. Knowing that school is aways and should be a priority, students should work while in high school because working helps students be more responsible with their lives, help them practice time managment, and also helps students see and experience the real world.
...s proven that the structural factors are much based on the human factors. New government policies are trying to remove inequalities. Consequently, it could be said that if a human being is given a fair enough choice of all jobs that are available then it will be down to their freedom to choose, but it is very hard to measure what is the best job for one person as it may be not perceived by others. Its our choice, which way we choose because at the end of the day its our life, which way we want to go. Choosing an occupation can be very difficult for one person because their are many factors which effect the person while making a decision which is mostly like discussed in this essay as for example race, gender, inequality, class, role of women and there are many more factors which are explained in this essay which can affect ones life while choosing for an occupation.