Question: Compare and contrast attitudes towards students working part time in your country and in the U. S. A. Use specific examples and provide appropriate evidence to explain your answer.
Part-time jobs now is very common for students in many countries, we can see a lot of job websites can offer various part time job for students, but there are some differences between different countries, especially China. The report will talk about part time job and compare and contrast the difference between Chinese and American students’ part time job. From my research, working while studying in school will become a precious memory.Why? Because there are lots of benefits of part time job, like enrich students campus life, apply students ’ knowledge, bring more balance to students life, benefit feature job hunting and so on. I summed up the following points: Firstly, working can save for college or even to supplement family income. In America, parents don’t paying child support when their children are at the age of eighteen or above, so lots of students have to rely on part-time income to pay for tuition fees or save for college.
In China, there are some students who in financial difficulty families have to work after their class to support their family.Secondly, college often favor toward students who have part time work experiences, because working can teach students about responsibility and something that they can’t learn at school. First of all, you can learn specialty knowledge which are associates with your work, and put them into practice. It’s a good chance to improve your social skill through working with others; you will learn the concept of time, team spirit, and work attitude and so on. All the experience can be drew when you are in college or future job. The most important is you will know how hard your parents were and try to treasure money.
Above all, part time job can provide both training and experience and expand your outlook. Although both Chinese students and American students work in part time, but there are lots of difference between Chinese and American part-time job. The first point is the age of part timer. All minors of China are rules by the laws thereof that they can’t work until eighteen, so most of Chinese part-timers are college students, but there is no age limit for American part-timer. American students can take part time job while they are still on height school or younger, so they often have more experiences than their peers in China.The second point is differences between their incomes.
A same job, same educational background, same working time, Chinese part-timer’s income is much lower than American part-timer. The minimum wage in America is 7. 25$ per hour now (http://www. minimumwages.
org/), in China, according to incomplete statistics, the minimum wage in China approximately 2$ now (http://www. wageindicator. org/main/minimum-wages/china-custom). Another reason is during the job search process, the inexperienced young who are still under graduated can’t get a good position in China, they can just do some physical work for they don’t have a high education background.The United States pays more attention to ability instead of educational background.
As long as you have good skills, you will get a good job and high salary. The third point is Chinese students’ way of part time job is different from American students’. Almost all part time jobs in China that are go to a company or organization to work, students always work for others on the contrary, but most American students will try to create their own bossiness, maybe is just a little pitch or secondary transactions, but all can embodies the United States of America’s innovative spirit.Some data show that there are 20% of American college students choose entrepreneurship, in China, there only 1. 6%(.
The biggest difference Chinese and American’s opinion on part-time jobs, Chinese educational concept has a great difference with American educational. The exam-oriented educational system makes Chinese students lack awareness of independence. They often study very hard, lack internal quality, it includes learning ability, work ability, and communicative ability…Which can only obtained through practice.In China, if a college student go to work with no related professional part time job, most people will consider he is living in a poor family, in traditional Chinese opinion, only students whose family are difficult in economic will do part-time job, and Chinese parents often think study score is more important than practice, if their children has free time, they must suggest their children study more rather than go to find a part-time job. They think work is unnecessary for a student.
The situation is completely on the contrary in America, part-time jobs are very common in the United States students no matter their age, American parents and school students should afford the tuition by themselves, so college students have to go to work. Above all, all the differences prove Chinese need to change their education a concept, support students to be creative and keen to practice. Change the opinion of part time hob for students. As a Chinese, I worried about the prospect of Chinese students’ outlook, has a positive impact on learning.
