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Agree or disagree that students should（not）work at part-time jobs when attending the university

People would have different opinions on that whether college students should work at part-time jobs or not. For me, I think the decision to take part-time jobs is based on a condition: his/her ability to strike a balance between his/her work and study. If a student could use one’s wisdom to handle both work and study, I believe that they have the right to take a part-time job.

Take some of my classmates at my university for example, they could work as tutors while maintaining good performance on their studies, so they did part-time jobs happily and properly. However, I also met some classmates could not do well on their studies for they are too busy working on part-times. My suggestion is that unless there are great economical pressures on them, they should always put their studies as the first priority, and try to quit their jobs or change to other part-time jobs.

If people could fulfill the condition that I just mentioned, I totally agree that they should work at part-time jobs for a couple of reasons. Firstly, taking part-time jobs help students broaden their horizons. They will be able to meet more people from different backgrounds, and learn new skills in a more practical way. If the job is highly-related to the student’s major, he/she could grab the chance to apply his/her knowledge to his job, get more knowledge in a learning-by-doing environment, ask valuable advice from his/her boss, or even increase the chance to find a suitable job after he/she graduate from college. As a result, a useful part-time job experience would be advantageous to one’s future career.

In addition, one will learn independence from working at part-times. Since a student could pay his/her tuition and daily expenses from his/her part-time salary, it will help them to be independent from their parents. More importantly, they will understand difficulties to earn money and work within a society at an earlier stage, so they could be more mature and responsible for their life.