my opinion toward teenagers having jobs.

Before having their actual job, many high school students find their part time job to afford themselves little bit more without help of their parents. The reasons of having jobs may vary, however, I think the idea of having the job and earning by themselves is a good idea and actually gives many benefits to themselves, too. Although there are some disadvantages of it, for example, teenagers would not have enough time to spend in their academic studies or would only focus on earning the money, I think there are more valuable advantages to it.

First, having jobs help grow student to be independent. As I am a non-experienced person, who never worked, when I compare myself to my friends who had several jobs in their teens, I feel more immature. They know what they are doing and they have more responsibility of what they are doing and also spend their money efficiently. On the other hand, I tend to be more dependent to my parents and have no sense of balancing my money and therefore tend to extravagant toward my time and money.

Second, the process of having the job and the result helps teenagers to be more appreciated with the time they spent in their work. Although it would be just the part time job, still, students who are trying to find the job has to be evaluated while submitting their resumes and this process helps the working teenagers to be appreciated with the results that they are actually employed to the company they hoped to work at. Also, they actually meet new and experienced people and they will naturally know how earning money requires effort of their own, therefore appreciate their job.

Third, having jobs is the step toward to be prepared for the future. As shown above, the process of getting job grows individual's independency and helps them to be prepared for their job in timely manner. Therefore, it would actually help them to have more idea about having the job.

Although the jobs would have negative affects on students to not to concentrate hard on their studies, this would actually help teenagers the idea of how to manage their time. I think this issue matters to how they think and how they respond to it. Therefore, I think having job in their teen years would actually boost their ability to be independent, grow appreciation, and the preparation for the future.