'The Best Extracurricular May Be An After-School Job' By Pamela Paul

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Joelly Welnel Ms. Krick English 8 12 March 2024 Teen Jobs Teenagers should get jobs because they benefit them by teaching them valuable lessons, reducing crime rates, and preparing them for their future. Articles and research have shown that teenagers getting a job is good for the student, but some may disagree. Teenagers can handle jobs available to their age group, because most don’t require experience. Teenagers getting jobs teaches them valuable lessons. The article “The Best Extracurricular May Be An After-School Job” by Pamela Paul gives examples of teenagers learning valuable lessons from getting jobs and advice. Pamela Paul explains that “At any workplace, you will have to work alongside people with different backgrounds and values …show more content…

She says, “I applied early to a good college and got in. One of the first things I did when I got there was get a job” (Paul 16). Getting a job as a teenager looks good on college applications, and you can even save up money for college. Meanwhile, teenage jobs can lead to less success in children's futures. In the article “Teenagers’ Work Can Have Downsides” by Jarald G. Bachman, he shares how he doesn’t think teenagers should get jobs because it can lead to bad habits. The first point he gives is, “Working over 10 or 15 hours is correlated with poor grades. And earning a lot in high school can create “premature influence” and bad spending habits” (Bachman 3). This shows that having a job as a teen has downsides, creating these habits can be bad for your future because it can lead you to having no money to pay bills or to care for yourself. Another example from this article is, “Researchers have consistently found that high school students who work long hours in jobs during the school year tend to have poorer academic performance and are more likely to be involved in a variety of problem behaviors, including delinquency, cigarette use and other drug use” (Bachman 1). Teenage jobs are bad because they make students care less about learning and they start to care more about money and what that money can give them access

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