Why College Students Do A Part-Time Job
Many students nowadays would do one or more part-time jobs when they have leisure time, and most of my classmates are no exceptions. Tutor, for example, seems to be one of the most popular part-time jobs among college students because of the time flexibility and the high hourly pay compared to other part-time jobs. However, in my point of view, there are three main reasons why college students do a part-time job, which are learning how to be economically independent, improving social skills, and exploring potential working fields in which they want to further develop in the future.
Having a part-time job is a helpful method for college students to learn how to earn their own living without receiving financial support from their family. Take myself as an example. I didn’t know how to make both ends meet until I began my first part-time job. At first, I was not aware of the importance of making monthly budget plan and just bought everything I thought I could afford. Consequently, I spent so much money that I couldn’t pay the rent and I failed to keep my parents promise to manage my money. Eventually, I had no choice but to turn to my parents. Luckily, they only gently reminded me how important it was to make budget plan if I wanted to be economically independent. Rather than blaming me on my being too optimistic about spending money, they considered this embarrassing experience as one precious lesson for me to be learned. Thankfully, I knew I made it to strike a balance between daily expenses and my income for the first time when I saw there was still plenty amount of money in my bank account before I received my next salary. Thus, without doing a part-time job, I would not be able to earn my own living and gradually achieve my goal of being economically independent.
The second reason for college students to work part time is because they want to improve their social skills. As for social skills, communication and cooperation are two of the major elements and standards to evaluate a person, both in a job and in an interpersonal relationship. Working part time helps college students improve their communicative skills and learn how to cooperate with their team members or partners. For example, when their superiors assign a task that is more than they can handle, they would probably need to negotiate with their partners to figure out several solutions to finish it. Under such circumstance, they have to apply communication and cooperation to gain the best result. Furthermore, these two would benefit a lot no matter what their job is.
The third reason that accounts for college students’ doing a part-time job is to explore and discover where their passion toward in their future career is. Nowadays, after graduating from college, many freshmen of the society are still confused about which career they would like to engage in. If they took a chance to find out what really interested them through working part time in their college years, they would be able to picture what their ideal career life would be like in advance.
In conclusion, there are many reasons for college students to work part time after class, and three of them are mentioned here, which are, respectively, learning how to be economically independent, improving their social skills, and exploring their ideal career in the future. I support college students to work part time not only for the reasons given above, but also for cultivating themselves the ability to solve problems and manage their time well.
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