Change is inevitable. As one grows he or she is challenged with the aspects of growing up. One is overtaken with responsibility, time must now be spent wisely, and money is more than what is found between the couch cushions.Teenagers are held to a higher standard than any other age groups.Teenagers are repeatedly ask what they are going to do with our lives and are forced to make that choice once they become a senior in high school so we can prepare ourselves for college, but they’re still indecisive. More parents are forcing their children to get a job so they can pay for their own things. As a five year old I would spend my time playing dress up in my mother's clothes longing to feel grown up. Being five, I decided my parents gave me such strict rules of not crossing the street, and only playing outside if mom or dad was there to watch me caused me to only anticipate growing up even more so I could finally do big girl things. As days passed I would begin my morning waking up at ten and rushing to the kitchen to find any sugary sweets to eat. The rest of my afternoon was spent having tea parties with all my Barbie’s and stuffed animals. When the day went on you could find me outside playing hide …show more content…
I have started my first job and with this job my parent require me to pay for my car payment, insurance, and phone bill. The bills keep coming and now my money has to be managed properly. I now have a checking account and have a huge responsibility of making sure I do not overdraw my account. With each paycheck I struggle with this decision of putting more into my checking account or leave more for savings for college. Some day’s I still wish I could break my piggy bank open but with my future right around the corner I am faced with saving now more than ever. Money has become crucial to my life, and having my first job I have finally realized the real meaning of the value of a
When it's all said and done they do not think twice of what might happen in the long run. Teenagers do not think about the their actions. Teens do not have enough experience like older and wiser people do. Teenagers brains are still forming and still growing to the maximum height of what it can be. Most teens might think they know what's best but they really don't, unlike older people do.
When a teenager is maturing, one is faced with many challenges. Teenagers may feel like they have so many decisions to make. As a teenager approaches graduation, one may feel overwhelmed. A career counselor is working with a teenager, named Taneka, who is working as a salesperson at a store at a local mall. Her supervisor is impressed by her performance. Taneka’s supervisor is encouraging her to participate in a leadership program. Taneka is torn between joining the work force and going to college after graduating from high school.
Since, the students take college courses while in high school, they’re not really mature at that age because they’ve been used to being watched all the time. So, when they get freedom; either it spoils them or makes them mature before age. For example, in this age, everyone likes partying and stuff and when there’s no one to stop you, you’re definitely going to waste your time on all this childish stuff (Although having fun isn’t a bad thing but like someone said, “excess of everything is bad”). Many people like to go wild at this age but not all of them are same. Some try to manipulate their time for their best. Because they know that these charms are not going to last forever. Sooner or later, they’ll have to face the hard reality of the
Ask any parent, they will tell you that teenagers think they know everything even though they are usually wrong. So why do we let these mostly incorrect know-it-alls choose their paths in life? American novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace, in his 2005 commencement address “This is Water,” states that adult life is completely different than what graduating seniors imagine it to be. The author provides personal anecdotes and uses imagery to convey the unmentioned, annoying, and boring aspects of adult life. Wallace’s purpose is to explain that many of these students will feel unsatisfied with their adult lives but they must power through the “day in, day out” frustrations in order to be successful. But what makes his speech so relatable;
Some teenagers believe that life should imitate high school. Adolescents think they should never have an inordinate amount of pressure foist upon them, and that deadlines are strictly an outline to go by. If something is done incorrectly the first time they can just keep doing it until it's right. However, when young adults enter 'the real world' they come to the horrific realization that their boss doesn't care how they feel, and if the deadline is missed, there can be severe consequences. High school should aim at preparing young adults for real life, rather than misleading them to believe the world will continue to revolve around them.
Choices made as teenagers can impact their lives in either in a negative or positive way. If a teenager begins to make poor decisions, he/she could destroy his or her future personally or professionally. As teenagers become older, the margin for error becomes smaller. In “Beautiful Brains” by David Dobbs, the teenager in the story chose to drive passed the speed limit on a highway, and this decision got him in trouble with the law. It’s these types of choices that can get a person into a serious mess if he or she is not careful. If you choose not to work hard in school, you will receive bad grades. This will impact your GPA and consequently your ability to get into a good college. Therefore bad decisions you make as a teenager, especially as
Adolescents’ is the process where a child matures and it was really different from the child that he or she experience. In this stage the adolescents are more anxious, more confused about themselves as (Schneiders, 1965) agrees that “the contemporary adolescent is different from the child he was and from the child he was and from the adult he is going to be; and he is different also from the adolescent of a generation ago.” Motivation is also a big factor to adolescents; adolescents have a greatest variety of motivations. Adolescents can be motivated to learn through family, peers, or by emotional. Adolescent enter and remain in college primarily because of family pressures or traditions college is simply something expected
“Less than 1.4 million teens were employed full time in February, down from more than 4.1 million in June 1978, according to the Labor Department." (US News, Why Teens Are Getting Shut Out of the Workforce) Teens also are having to compete for college scholarships as the amount of people going to college is constantly increasing. In 1980, 12.1 million people were enrolling in college, in 2015, it is estimated that this number for enrollment is 20.24 million. (Statista, US College Enrollment and Projections in Public and Private Institutions) This generation is also being raised straight out of a recession, more families have struggled which could lead to fewer savings and even potentially tapping into their savings to stay afloat. Taking away from any money that could be used to assist their children in things like college, vehicles,
When we are teens we are forced to make more and more choices. These are no longer simple choices they quickly go from picking what flavor we want to what do we want to be when we grow up. Our parents no longer are there to hold our hand through the decision making process. They’ve let go of our hand to let us learn how to make “grown-up choices”. They let go of our hand to let us decide and assume responsibility to the choice we’ve made.
Receiving my first job was a huge milestone in life, as it is for any teen. The feeling was equivalent to learning how to tie a shoe and being picked first for kickball. It was basically a moment where I truly became aware that I was growing up, that “this was it” I was finally going to cut the ties and become my own provider. To prove myself and others, that I can handle the so called “Real World”. However, upon entering my first job, most teenagers were unaware the of the reasonability that came with it. It was pretty much treated like a last period class, “if you show up you pass” kind of deal. When in actuality, it was much more. Working as a ride operator at a local amusement park, Lake Winnie, many would assume that it would be the easiest
Teenagers have it easy now-a-days, and there is little attempt to make getting anywhere hard on them, they practically have everything handed to them and once they begin to take it all for advantage they begin to slowly make mistakes. These mistakes are what eventually cause problems in their futures. Parents, schools and communities should work together to show teenagers a more real version of life so they understand that it isn’t all fun and games.
Change is inevitable in our world. Things and people are constantly evolving whether we like it or not. In this paper, I will be discussing how the transition from adolescents to adulthood has and is changing. According to research done by Dr. Jeffrey Arnett, a sociologist in the field of Human Development and Family Studies, there is a critical period of time now known as “emerging adulthood” that bridges the gap between late adolescents and early adulthood. Dr. Arnett’s theory suggests that more and more people are postponing the transition to adulthood by taking those early years to explore different possibilities for their education, careers, and love lives instead of jumping into marriages, creating families, and careers right away (as
I remember that Big Mac, the first one that wasn’t for free. I paid for that one and it was the first time I tasted expense, tasted real value. It’s an experience that can’t be taught, or described enough, just perceived in first person. I embrace the life changing step, being the first time I stepped into the world of consumerism by myself. Employment and its reward of income changed my life: allowing me to finally comprehend the work behind a dollar, the importance of saving, and the significance of a job.
On my first day as an intern for Colder Products Company (CPC), I did not know what to expect. The prospect of doing real and influential work was both exciting in the fact that it would apply to what I enjoy doing, but daunting when I realized that my work now counted for something more than a grade. Now, a little under three months in, I’ve learned some simple, yet important lessons along the way which will help you succeed on the job, and get the most out of the work you’ll be doing.
The truth of the matter is, is that being a teenager is hard, right from the beginning, and it doesn't get any easier. We are such easy prey for big name companies who advertise using the pressure of popularity, looks and sex to force us to buy their product that, as it turns out, we never wanted or needed in the first place. Our lives are filled with stress. One of the greatest sources of pressure is school. Where we are herded like cattle from room to room, chewing on our cud, while the hay of knowledge is force fed to us as we are trying our hardest to gulp it down as more and more is shovelled in. Another great source of pressure is ourselves. We try our hardest to be accepted among a certain group or circle. Whereas most of the time we are rejected and we become depressed. Depression, another problem, along with ignorance and apathy that thwarts our lives. A wise man when questioned about his view on ignorance and apathy, said &...