Summertime is coming up fast! Teens with jobs over the summer are productive, creating more social skills, and achieving good work ethic all while getting paid. Summer jobs are also a good thing for parents. They don’t have to worry about what their children may be doing while they are at work.
There are advantages and disadvantages of teens with summer jobs, but there are more advantages to it. These advantages are career exploration, financial independence, time management, and self-confidence.
According to HealthyChildren.org, having a summer job has many benefits. Career explorations can help high school students find new interests and different career paths. Financial independence can teach working students valuable life long skills, including budgeting and money management. Time management is a great way for setting deadlines, being organized, and to be accountable for your responsibilities. Working in places out in the open boosts self-confidence, and receiving paychecks can help teens feel accomplished.
Shelby Mishoe, a freshman, started babysitting when she turned 15-years-old, and she said that its nice having money to spend on activities, but it takes away from summer break.
The disadvantages are not being able to have as much time to hang out with friends/family and sometimes the long hours since there is no school.
Sophomore Sophia Cala shared that her first job was at Jack’s Surf Shack, and she worked there the summer she was fifteen. She enjoyed working there.
Cala said, “My current job has strict rules about availability which means I work on holidays like Memorial Day and The Fourth of July which is the only disadvantage of summer jobs.”
Summer jobs can be an eye-opening and exciting thing for someone or it could be the complete opposite and be the most dreadful thing. Overall, summer jobs are good for teens to be involved in adulting before becoming an adult.
