SHOULD STUDENTS HAVE PART-TIME JOB?

Every day, after studying at school, I come back to the dorm. Every month, I receive money from my parents. My students’ life seems to be very boring. I like doing something more challenging and I want to earn my own money. Therefore, I applied for a part-time job last month. Many people say that student like me should not do the part-time job while they are studying because it can distract the student’s attention away from their studies. However there are many benefits of doing part-time job so why don’t we find a suitable one?

Nowadays, many students do part-time job while they are studying. Instead of staying at the dorm, doing nothing useful, why don’t we spend a little free time do part-time job? It can help you so much.

First, doing part-time job helps cultivate student’s independence. Imagine that, every Saturday and Sunday, you spend from 3 to 6 hours to work as a waitress in a small restaurant and after that you can earn from 500 to 700 thousand dong. With this money, you can use to pay for tuition, buy some books you like, buy your favorite food you want or take part in art club you love…  It is so great! Isn’t it? Moreover, you can have a good lesson about the value of money you have earned and how to use money carefully and thrifty. If you don’t have a part-time job, whenever you run out of money, you have to ask your parents give you some. It is not good for you and you may become economic burdens of your parents.

If you just study well all things presented in books, in the internet… is it enough? 

 Second, part-time job can help students apply their knowledge in practice. For example, you are studying in foreign of faculty and you are working in an English- talk café shop. What will you gain? It is not only the money you can earn but also the advance you get in your studying. You have many chances to practice speaking English to people who are willing to talk even foreigners. All of us know that, the more English we talk, the more improving we get. Isn’t it the effective way to apply your knowledge in practice?

Finally, part-time job experience prepares students for their future job.  As usual, whenever you apply for a job, the first question of the manager is that “do you have any experience?”  Therefore, it is very important for you to have some experience which is related to our future career. The more experience we have, the more opportunities we get the job. It is very necessary for us on getting promotion in the future career.

Summary, in my opinion, students should have part-time job because it is a necessary condition for us to cultivate independence, apply their knowledge in practice and prepare them psychologically for the future job.