Work, work, and more work. That’s all I used to do on the weekends which can be very frustrating when you’re a high schooler. We all have busy lives as high school students whether it being with school activities, a job, or both.

Having a job during high school is a good thing. I believe it teaches us as students valuable lessons, but we can also learn these lessons in the other activities we do as well. The lessons you learn when you’re in a work place can vary from how you handle customers to counting change.

While you can learn these lessons at a job, you can also learn them at school or doing extra curricular activities outside of school.

For example, say you’re in an authority position at school (like being the president of StuCo). You learn how to deal with disagreements between two parties.

While working can teach us valuable lessons, we usually end up giving something up as well. Usually when students work we are trying to juggle work, school, extra curricular activities and our friends.

As teenagers, friends are a big deal. They usually help keep us sane. But when you’re working and doing other activities as well, it’s hard to find time to hang out
with your friends.

Being able to see your friends is important but looking on the academic side having
a job can hinder your school work.

If you work after school and get home late, how much
of your homework actually gets done? Not a lot.
Not being able to see your friends and having your grades slip because of a job doesn’t really make the job seem worth it.

My senior year is here and I’m not working and I’m actually enjoying
my weekends. I’m actually enjoying my high school experience.