part time work
My son Matthew has finished Poly and is now waiting for his two year stint of national service in the armed forces in June. It was good that he was willing to work in a local company for a few months. I remember working part-time screwing bolts into army truck benches for $4 a day in order to buy new clothes. Now it is ten times or more per day. There were some arguments that it is bad for students to work part-time because it puts too much money in their hands, and they may mix with wrong company, give up on studies altogether or they become too independent or …….. For me I think that such work can cultivate in them some discipline, responsibility, some clarification of what they want to do in future, and an appreciation of the value of money.
7 comments February 28th, 2007
