Teenagers should work part-time when their livelihoods don’t depend on it.
My two-year-old son, Leo, spends his days giggling through story time and happily throwing his toys. The coming years will be filled with homework, activities, sleepovers, vacations, and other experiences designed to boost his social and academic abilities.
Working an hourly job taught me managerial hierarchies, how to take critical feedback, the importance of formal communication styles with superiors, patience, and the path to promotions and raises. Yet several years into my career, I was surprised at how many new college grads. I’ve also seen this innocent ignorance seriously harm a young person’s career mobility.
Walking across the graduation stage doesn’t automatically impart college grads with knowledge of how the workplace operates and what is expected.
A part-time job exposes teenagers to all of these elements gradually over time. Asking my mother what FICA was when I was 16 fares a lot better than a 26-year-old who is coming to the realization his take-home pay won’t be as much as he originally planned.
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