Employment Is The Key To A Great Future

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Employment Is The Key To A Great Future



Many students today, have jobs while attending high school. In the article “When Job Crimps School, Future Pays,” written by Christine Baron, she feels as if having a job is future threatening. Baron also believes that it is an educational disadvantage, to participate in responsibilities other than school. However, whatever way it’s looked at, it is the path most often traveled by teens today. In my opinion, being employed during high school isn’t threatening at all. It should be a motivating and moving experience, which makes a person look forward to their future.
For many teens, high school is a place of freedom. Whether it be finding out who they are, what purpose they serve or simply becoming employed. A place of employment is an opportunity to excel in what a person feels they have to offer. Each and every high school student that I know feels this way. They would very much disagree with Baron, just as much as I do. I work with an eighteen-year-old girl who is a sophomore in college and this is her first job. She told me that she was an only child and very sheltered. Also she stated that she didn’t have the kind of freedom others did in high school. While her friends went off to earn their weekend spending money, she was at her home with her parents, watching television. She wanted that freedom of having an occupation but wasn’t given the opportunity, until now. She is slowly catching up to those students that have had the chance, to experience what it is to be independent. Education is very important, it is a tool that trains a person for job skills used and tested in the future. However, if a student is able to maintain good grades and a job in high school, it is more feasible for the road ahead. In school students work, but in work students get hands on training and preparation for future jobs. With experience and an education, it makes it easier to...