Students Should Work Part-Time While in College

Student should be encouraged to work part-time.

Nowadays in the era of globalization, students are encouraged to have work part-time that will create them to become more experienced in their future, teach them to become more independent and mature in real life. Although the students have enough money to pay their fees and able to accommodate the necessities of life but we totally agree that the working part-time should be encouraged because work part-time can give more benefits to students. According to King and Bannon (2002, p. 2), more than 50 percent of full-time students have jobs and “nearly 46% of all full-time employed students work 25 hours or more.” As students work more, they have less time to become engaged in campus life both inside and outside the classroom. Many students love to have part-time jobs. Their parents approve it easily as they are said to gain experience from working. However, having a job is a big responsibility for a student. Before, teenagers at their age were working to help their family because of poverty. Nevertheless, they were actually eager to study and learn at school for their future. It was not the same as the students nowadays where they are more likely competing to each other to have a job. Most of the students are working part-time jobs and some have the intention to work. When we are in any fast food restaurant, supermarket or shop, there are must be school students who are working. Besides, students can gain a lot of experiences, students should be encouraged to work part-time because they can learn new skills and learn how to manage their financial properly.

Firstly, Work-part time is good for students because they can get a lot of experiences that they cannot learn in the class because ...

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...o learn to deal with and resolve their own problems before they get out into the real world. They need to find a way to integrate both study and working for example they should simply create a systematic schedule that emphasize the time to spend working and assignment given by teacher or lecturer. This way will help students to easily follow the schedule created so that they can balance the time to learn and work. And certainly, the can set a day of the week for family and peers gather together so that they can still retain a good relationship. With the positive mind set and motivate, part-time work can be a great experience for students to be the one that successful and useful to the community, nation and country. Lastly, they can use of their experiences gained from part-time work and the skills they have learned to be carried and used in their future careers.