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
Is earning your own money bad? The article The Fast Food Factories: McJobs are bad for kids was written by Amitai Etzioni and published by The Washington Post in 1986. In this article Etzioni states, and I quote, “theses jobs undermine school attendance and involvement, impact few skills that will be useful in later life, and simultaneously skew the values of teen-agers—especially their idea about the worth of a dollar.” Because I am currently in high school and have a job, I strongly believe jobs are helpful, contain many basic life learning skills, but often diminishes teen-agers` thoughts of the value of money.
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.
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.
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.
Growing up all my friends had perfect jobs for teenagers. As a teenager, I spent a lot of time applying for jobs and searching for places to work because money didn’t come easy and I wanted to be in control of my own money. But I could never score a job. I applied to at least 100 jobs at least twice and I still couldn’t get an opportunity.
The first piece of evidence Etzioni brings to your attention is that the only possible skills you can gain from these types of jobs can not be used in later careers you may find yourself in. He says that teens work just to spend their money on “trite” things such as, “flimsy punk clothes, trinkets, and whatever else is the last fast-moving teen craze” (287). How can this be true when Etzioni doesn’t compare what these teens spend money on
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.
As years go by, teenagers have been getting lazier and lazier. Read the article “What to do with the kids this summer? Put them to work”, the author “Ben Sasse” argues that teenagers do not want to work a summer job. He uses appeals such as credibility and emotion to support his argument. The author uses the appeal of credibility in order to support his argument that teenagers do not want to work a summer job.
Most teens are getting jobs at high school ages. They would need a way to get to and from work on their own. More often than not a teens work schedule is not going to coincide with the parent or guardian's schedule. The job would just end up being a hassle for both the teen and the parent taking them. If they have a license, there would not be a problem with getting a job when they can take themselves whenever. Having a job in high school sets you up to be more responsible, builds time management skills, and you can save up college money or money to support yourself.
Why have teen summer jobs decreased over the years? In the article “Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs-Why?” by Derek Thompson, he is very set and has the information he needs to show how much summer jobs for teens have decreased lately. Thompson gives emotional, truthful, and statistical points showing the downfall. Our author's three rhetorical appeals are strong throughout the whole argument of the article. Thompsons article talks all about the drops and decreases in summer job percentages for teens.
Most people would conclude that summer jobs when they were younger were a right of passage, but today’s teens don’t seem to have the same fondness for them. Why is this a problem? While you might think that has to do with today's teens getting lazier and lazier, Derek Thompson had a different idea when he wrote the essay, “Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs—Why?”. While Thompson uses reasoning to support his claim that teens not having summer jobs is not bad, he relies heavily on evidence to convince his audience that teens are spending their free time more strategically. Thompson uses visual graphs to disprove the idea that teens are getting lazy because they don’t have summer jobs by also giving many reasons why they don’t have summer
Jobs can and do improve the lives of adolescents. For example, Jerald G. Bachman, a distinguished senior research scientist at the Institute for Social Research and a research professor at the survey research center at the University of Michigan, the author of “Teenager's Work Can Have Downsides” says in paragraph 4,”. . . [C]ompletion rates are the highest among those who worked 15 hours or less a week when they were high school seniors.” This proves that jobs
...e as they see life being portrayed in a book or movie. They can gain some hands on experience that will prepare for their future. Experiences grow with working, no matter what type of job they do, teens will still gain a lot experiences as long as they are hands on tasks. Not only will working provide experiences, it will also help students be more confident in life. When teens become confident in what they are doing, they considerably are half way to success.
For teenagers typically the best employment is during the summer months due to the fact that they are out of school and thus have an increased amount of leisure time and many places require an extra source labor in order to accommodate for the rush which typically occurs during the summer months (Hall, 2013). In the year 1999 just above fifty-two percent of teenagers from the age of sixteen to the age of nineteen were employed for a summer job, however; the current employment rate for the same age group was around 32.25 percent in the past June and July an extremely low number especially considering that this was the peak teenage employment season (Hall, 2013). This has been compared to the great depression by some due to the fact that the numbers are somewhat similar to those seen during the great depression, in fact An...
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.