Sunday, June 24, 2007
Should teenagers work during the holidays?
In my opinion, I agree that teenagers should work during the holidays.
I think it benefits them in many ways and helps them to kill time, as most
of them feel that it is boring to stay at home all day with nothing to do.
Firstly, it helps teenagers to understand how it feels like to be working with others
under different environments. They will also experience how to cope with the different
types of difficulties they have never faced before, handling problematic customers and adapting to their working environment, etc. They will also learn how to co-operate and work with new colleagues and their bosses. Most importantly, they will learn that they cannot refuse to do tasks assigned by their superiors,bargain with them and get a taste of how it feels like to work in the society. It also fits the purpose of some schools organising 'Work Experience Programmes'.
Secondly, they can earn money and realise how hard it is to earn only a few hundred or a thousand bucks a month, depending on what kind of work they took up. Some may even learn how to save money, as they do not want to spend their hard-earned money on unneccessary things. Although some may even splurge all their money to shop, but at least it will be a relieve to some of their parents, as the money is not coming from their own pockets, but from their children's pays, where there is nothing wrong for the teenagers to use the money they earned to buy things to pamper themselves. They can also help to lighten the financial loads of their parents.
Lastly, teenagers can learn to be independent as when they work in the society, there is no one there to spoonfeed them. Their parents and friends will not be able to help them in times of trouble, they will have to depend on themselves.
However, there are disadvantages to this issue. For example, not being able to spend more time with their family and friends and getting to know people that are of bad influences. Although those examples may affect our lifes, they could be solved. The teenagers can work part-time instead of full-time, so that they could spend sufficient time with their family and friends. They should have no problems judging people to and not to mix with, if they have discipline and the ability of having good judgement instilled in them. Hence, it depends on the teenagers as an individual.
Overall, there are more advantages as compared to disadvantages and I strongly believe that teenagers should work during the holidays, since it is beneficial to them.
Low Shi Hui (16)
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Should teenagers work during the holidays?
In my opinion, I agree that teenagers should work during the holidays.
I think it benefits them in many ways and helps them to kill time, as most
of them feel that it is boring to stay at home all day with nothing to do.
Firstly, it helps teenagers to understand how it feels like to be working with others
under different environments. They will also experience how to cope with the different
types of difficulties they have never faced before, handling problematic customers and adapting to their working environment, etc. They will also learn how to co-operate and work with new colleagues and their bosses. Most importantly, they will learn that they cannot refuse to do tasks assigned by their superiors,bargain with them and get a taste of how it feels like to work in the society. It also fits the purpose of some schools organising 'Work Experience Programmes'.
Secondly, they can earn money and realise how hard it is to earn only a few hundred or a thousand bucks a month, depending on what kind of work they took up. Some may even learn how to save money, as they do not want to spend their hard-earned money on unneccessary things. Although some may even splurge all their money to shop, but at least it will be a relieve to some of their parents, as the money is not coming from their own pockets, but from their children's pays, where there is nothing wrong for the teenagers to use the money they earned to buy things to pamper themselves. They can also help to lighten the financial loads of their parents.
Lastly, teenagers can learn to be independent as when they work in the society, there is no one there to spoonfeed them. Their parents and friends will not be able to help them in times of trouble, they will have to depend on themselves.
However, there are disadvantages to this issue. For example, not being able to spend more time with their family and friends and getting to know people that are of bad influences. Although those examples may affect our lifes, they could be solved. The teenagers can work part-time instead of full-time, so that they could spend sufficient time with their family and friends. They should have no problems judging people to and not to mix with, if they have discipline and the ability of having good judgement instilled in them. Hence, it depends on the teenagers as an individual.
Overall, there are more advantages as compared to disadvantages and I strongly believe that teenagers should work during the holidays, since it is beneficial to them.
Low Shi Hui (16)
