Work And School
Many people have busy lives, especially someone who has to juggle more than
one
task per day. The people in particular that I am talking about are
college
students. How some of us have jobs and need jobs that help keep us in
school.
The tough part is that we have to spend most of our time on
school which leaves
very little time for work, even thought we do have to
work to make a decent
amount of money. So, since work and school are apart of
everyone’s life,
either if you just work or go to school they both involve a
good amount of your
life and time. On the other hand, going to work and
school at the same time can
make it tough to concentrate on one even tough
you have to do both. One thing
that students need to know is time management.
It is ok to work and go to
school, but each person has to give a reasonable
amount of time for both. Many
students, like myself, like to work, and we
will sometimes do that more than
school. In contrast we have to give the same
if not more time to school. The
reason for this is because probably the job
you are working now is not going to
get you that high paying job that you
will be looking for when you are out of
school. Students have to remember
that and not put all of their time into work.
Some people like myself
feel obligated you work more since we have more time out
of class than we did
in high school. Another thing that I notice myself doing is
going to work
right after school which leaves only a little time to do homework
and that is
at like 10 o’clock at night. Most of the time that homework will
not get done
because we are to tired from working all night. So, we will put it
off until
the night before it is due. I, personally am a procrastinator, will
put
things off until the night before it is due and start it then. Everyone
needs
to know the value of time management. Not being able to put the right
amount
of time to the most important thing is not a good habit. Everyone needs
to
get their priorities in order, or toughing it out get the hard stuff
done
first and relax and have fun later. If everyone does this there will be
less
stress and people will feel much better about themselves. Also, people
will have
more free time and be able to do al the things they have been
wanting to do.
Plus if you keep putting things off and doing them at the
last minute you could
miss out on doing something more enjoyable. On the flip
side people need to know
how to time manage work too, since people have to
also put most of their time
towards work. The reason I say this is because
many students like myself want to
work many hours to make money. The problem
with this is we pick a bad time to
work these hours. We really should either
wait until school is out to work many
hours or on our breaks. Also, we have
to put our priorities in order. What is
going to mean more to us in the
future a dead end job or school that is going to
get us a degree and a high
paying job. Some of us do not see this is because we
are making a decent
amount of money, but what we should see is that the money we
making now is
nothing to what we could make. According to history of Americans
we were
brought up to work, and if time school, but now the times have
changed.
In today’s world we are brought up to value education and use
our education to
get a job. Back in the early 1900’s children were forced to
work with their
families. and if they had time went to school. An education
did not mean as much
as it does now. Also, people did not need an education
to be successful they
learned a trade that was probably taught to them by
their father. That was how
people made a living back then. People can do the
same now by learning a trade,
but some people still want a degree that will
help them get a better job. This
is the way children are brought up now.
Personally, I am finding really hard to
do both work and school. Since I know
how important school is to me, it is
really hard for me not to work I like to
keep active. Plus the place I work also
gives me the flexible hours I need so
I can do both go to work and school. Even
though I get the flexible hours so
I can do both is still very hard to arrange.
Working everyday and going
to school full-time is not smart but if you need
money like myself you will
try. The horrible part about working and going to
school is I see my grades
falling. The reason for this is I find myself working
to much and the reason
for that is that work is not as stressful as school can
be. That is also
another reason why it is tough to do both work and school
because the stress
kills you. According to Susan Griffin in her essay "Our
Secret" she
states "I think of it now as a kind of mask, not an animated
mask that
expresses the essence of an inner truth, but a mask that falls like
dead
weight over the human face, making flesh a stationary object." What
this
quote means to me and the essay that I am writing is that the mask is
work and
the human face represents school. The reason I say this is because
everything we
do revolves around work. Also, now matter how we try to manage
time work has to
be apart of the time we are trying to manage. I know that
Susan Griffin essay
"Our Secret" has nothing to do with work and school,
but this quote can be
applied to many things. Another quote by Susan Griffin
from her essay "Our
Secret" is "Then the soul is an integral part of the
child’s whole being,
and its growth is thus part of the child’s growth." Even
though I said it
before but this quote is not directly related to my topic,
but it can be used as
part of my explanation. This quote can mean, to me in
my explanation that
depending on how a child is brought up is the way he or
she is going to perform
at work or at school. What I am trying to say is that
if a child is brought up
to try their best to succeed then these children
will probably will grow up to
be good people and good workers in either
school or in work. On the other hand,
if a child is brought up with no morals
or standards and his or her parents do
not care to much from them, they will
probably grow up not caring about life and
what they do with their life. Even
if parents do not think so ,but they do have
a big impact on the way their
children turn out to be. That is why I am thankful
my parents brought me up
with morals cause I would not be the person I am today.
Also, Susan
Griffin says in her essay "Our Secret" is "But everything in
his life is not
as it should be." This quote sums up everything that I feel.
Because
everything in my life either never goes the way it should, or if I am
lucky
everything will go my way. Lately everything has been going against
me,
between both work and school. Work is getting me very stressed and school
is
just against me too. I mean that I will try to just give but school and
work my
all but that is just to tough and I am wearing myself out. Usually
even if I am
worn out work is just so much easier to do when I am worn out
than school. I
like both but I have to start concentrating on school much
more. Even though I
love to work my job is not going to get me anywhere with
out a college degree.
That is why I have to start concentrating on school
more so I can get a decent
job that pays well and is not as stressful. I know
I mentioned this before but I
goes without saying that work and school are so
much apart of everyone’s life,
and my advice is just do one thing at a time
and try to enjoy your life. Even
though I know I need the to both work and
school, if I had a choice to do only
one I would just go to school and work
on breaks and the summer. Also, if I was
living at school I would be able to
do that, but since I live at home and have a
car I need to work and when I
have free time I will go there. I do not just need
to work so I can have
money to just waste all of the pay I get either goes to my
car or to help my
parents pay my tuition. So, I do have good reasons why I work
so much I just
have to cut down so I can concentrate on what is more important,
and that is
school. So, in the end what I think people should do is concentrate
on what
is more important to them. No matter if that is work or school. The only
good
thing about going to school is even thought it is harder the payof is
better
in the end. On the other hand, the good thing about going to work is
give
that all that you have so you will able able to move up in position or
get a
higher salary. Again I say that no matter what you do give it all you
have and
be the best person you can be at what ever you do. Also, if you are
a student
and you are working try to learn the value of time management
because trust me
it will help you throught out your entier life.