Students and part-time Jobs

Students & Part-time Jobs

Helping students decide whether to work during school life or in university life is an important discussion that can have repercussions on their success in high school and beyond.

For some students, especially those in traditionally underserved populations, taking a job is not a matter of choice, but necessity. They need to work to save for college, or even to supplement family income. Counselors should help students who have a real need to work improve time-management skills and seek employment that helps their educational goals.

The benefits from taking part-time works is that, the students becomes more confident and possess better time-management skills than students who are not employed. In addition to offering a paycheck, some independence, and satisfaction, a part-time job can provide teenagers with both training and experience. This also can teaches them how to hold on to a responsibility given to them.

The major point that students should keep in mind is the importance of balance. Every parents want their beloved daughters and sons  to establish a healthy balance in life and work to maintain it throughout their lives.

If working will interfere with completing schoolwork, participating in extracurricular activities, spending time with family and friends, or getting enough rest, it may not be a wise decision for them to works. This will brings bad affect to their results in examination. So its better not to let them to have part-time job.

Choices.

No one can escape from making choices in life. No one can deny that life is all about making choices. There are millions of choices in life and despite of all of them, there is a hidden story in the future that nobody knows what it is. Sometimes, when we make a choice, we think that this is probably the last chance of making it, but, at the time we make that choice there are still other options to choose that may happen to be more complicated. Each option has its own risk. Each risk can lead to other problem and each problem sometimes can be catastrophic.

Early in the morning, we already started making choices. For example, when the alarm clock started ringing in the morning, I have to choose whether to turn it off, or to wake up straight away to take a shower. But, of course, I would prefer to turn off the alarm and continue dreaming. Hihi

It is not a life if there are no choices to make.

I love this topic and I feel like there is more to write about 'choices'. But, I choose to stop here. Hihi. By the way, do you believe in karma? I do :)

How to cope with stress

Nowadays, everyone has their own problem. Everyone will stress with their problems. Stress will lead to a lot of health problem such as heart attack, hypertension and so on. To prevent ourselves from these health problems, we must know how to reduce and control our stress. Managing stress is all about taking charge: taking charge of our thoughts, emotions, schedule, environment and time for work. The ultimate goal is a balanced life, with time for work, relaxation, and so on. Do all your work on time, change our bad behaviour such as, like wasting time doing unnecessary things, to good behaviour.

Stress management starts with identifying the sources of stress in our life. Identify all the problems that you had to face. This thing is not as easy as it sounds. Your true sources of stress are not always obvious, and it’s all too easy to overlook your own stress-inducing thoughts, feelings, behaviours and so on. For example, you may worried about work deadlines, but have you tell yourself is it you already done it or not. People always delay their work will have to face another problem and become stress. So, try your best to manage your stress.

Suicide is not an option

Another man jumped off a building. It is a common sight to see reports on the newspaper about people committing suicide not just by jumping off high structures, but also drinking bleach, hanging themselves on ceilings, suffocating to death by smoke in closed room and driving off a cliff. Why do they do such things? Normally, they commit suicide because they are pressurized by the environment in many aspects such as in studies, at work, at home, from relationships and friends. To them, life is meaningless and the easiest and quickest way to end their sufferings is to end their life. Before making any hasty decision, we should think it through first. Is it worth it to end our life here and now and not continue to move on?

First of all, we should know the fact that suicide is final. Once you done it, there is no changing of mind. You cannot regret and beg for another chance because you are long dead! If you doubt your decision for even a second, please continue to stay alive. Secondly, you are going to kill yourself sooner or later, why not wait? Even if you wait just one day, you might find a reason to live. Thirdly, we should be masters of our feelings, do not let our feelings control us. Fourthly, if you commit suicide to escape pain and seek relief, then you are in the wrong track. You cannot feel relief or anything else because you are dead. That is why you must stay alive to feel the relief you seek.

Fifthly, you commit suicide when you feel hopeless and alone, what about your family, friends and love ones, those who care about you and are willing to listen to you? You are not alone. Sixthly, if you commit suicide, you may have end your sufferings but you are leaving the suffering to others. Think of your parents who have strived so hard to raise you up and this is how you repay them? You will definitely break their heart. Consider this, they may even commit suicide if they cannot handle the truth. Seventhly, you never know what your future holds, but if you end your life, you have no future at all. So, why not live on to carve the future you wish. Eighthly, you should live on to find more reasons not to kill yourself.

This world is still beautiful if you see it from a different perspective. Be optimistic. If you feel burdened, He will help carry the burden for you. If you are in pain, He is beside you to share the pain. However, if you kill yourself, you are killing Him. So live on as life can get better!

Qualities of taxi drivers

The quality of service provided by some taxi drivers are getting worse nowadays. Taxi is an important means of transport for tourists and non-locals. If a taxi driver provides bad service, this will definitely leave them a bad impression of the place and people as a whole.

One of the important aspects passengers look for in taxi drivers is cleanliness. A good taxi driver will take good care of the cleanliness of his vehicle. His car should at least be free of stench so that passengers will not have to hold their breath for the whole ride. Next, honesty is the best policy. Taxi drivers should charge passengers accordingly. Most taxis do not have meters to indicate the costs of the ride. However, they should charge customers with reasonable price. Reliability is also an important trait. Taxi drivers should be reliable in the information they give and actions they make. There are incidents where drivers cheated unknowledgeable customers by driving them to the wrong place. Some were even robbed by taxi drivers.

Besides, taxi drivers should have patience. They should drive properly and obey the road rules. This is to ensure the safety of the passengers. However, some drivers drive aggressively. This gives passengers quite a shock and threatened their safety. Other bad driving includes cutting lanes, dashing off while traffic lights, exceeding speed limits. These actions are due to lack of patience. Taxi drivers should be considerate as well. They should not smoke in the car, keep the windows open and must keep the air conditioner in good condition.

Lastly, if a taxi driver are able to meet the above requirements, he is a quality driver. Passengers will have confidence in his driving skills and character. He has a well-built reputation and will surely has a good career in his life.

Irony of One Man Band

After watching the video “One Man Band” Mr. Razol showed us, I feel that the element that arouses my interest is the irony of the story. At the beginning, the little girl intended to throw her coin into the fountain. The two musicians played all out to get the coin but the little girl ended up throwing the coin back into the fountain. Their attempts to get the coin were futile and a waste of time too. Furthermore, at first, the two musicians were rivals that competed to get the money but in the end they had to work together to reach the money on top of the fountain. The ironic contrast at the beginning and the outcome is one of the interesting element of the video.

Comment about the one man band in the movie One Man Band

First of all, I am very happy to be shown with this entertaining video from Mr. Razol. What’s more, this movie is able to relieve our tension in a very short time!

Talking about one man band, the first thing appeared in my mind is a man playing with a few instruments. However, the final answer turns out to be a man holding and playing a lot of instruments together. It was a very fascinating sight looking at the guy playing all those instruments. However, it let out the weak points of this one man band, which is low music loudness. The power of a man is limited. One is not able to do too many things at one time. Even if you are able to do so like the one man band in this movie, you will eventually lose something in return, like in this example, the loudness of the music produced is a loss. Hence, we must do everything in balance so that we won’t lose anything essential.

Besides, one man band in this movie also proves to us that economy is in scarcity. Even though both one man band (the musician in the following text) are very talented, there is not much listeners and they cannot make money. Hence, when a girl appeared, they fight to get the coin from the girl. This proves that our economy is scarce and hence we must stay competitive so that we can get the resources we want.

Although my comment about the movie is not very good, this movie is still a very entertaining movie to me with all the silly humors and actions in the movie.

Ferris wheel

Recently, one of my close friends shares her problem in love with me. Her boyfriend is going for an internship and she is worried that she will lose her boyfriend. I tend to her with the theory of Ferris wheel, which I am going to share with you here.

Ferris wheel, as you all know, is an amusement ride consisting of a large upright wheel rotating on a fixed stand and having seats around its rim suspended freely so that they remain right side up as they revolve. As we reach the highest point we are able to have a very fascinating bird-eye view of the surrounding. However, what I am going to say is the relation between the Ferris wheel with our lives.

As Ferris wheel is a circular structure, it can only move in a circular motion. However, since the seats around its rim are suspended freely, the passengers are actually going up and down. This can be symbolized as the ups and downs in our lives. Similar to a Ferris wheel, we cannot stay at the highest point at all the times. Sometimes we will have one or two obstacles or falls in our lives. Therefore, we must accept these low periods as challenges in our lives and learnt from it.

Besides, the continuous circular motion of the Ferris wheel can also be symbolized as hopes in our lives. Life is full of hope. Although we might stay at a low period for a long time, we are able to run out of it when the time comes as long as we are willing to make a change. Just like the Ferris wheel. Even though we have reached the lowest point, we still can go up again as long as we are willing to pay for it. Hence, we should have faith that hope is always in front of our journey of life as long we are willing to continue our journey.

In conclusion, the journey of life is never smooth. However, we should not be stopped by all the obstacles. In turns, we should learn from all the obstacles and don’t repeat the same mistake in the future. Hope is always in front of us. If you stay resilient, you will find a bright rainbow waiting for you in front and an impressive sunset behind you.

Finally Added to the blog!

After a few failures, I am finally a member of this blog. I am very glad about it. This is a very good experience to me.

First of all, it taught me about the importance of be ready early. Prepare things in advance really helps a lot as you won’t be in chaos when the things come because you are ready for it. I get this lesson because I didn’t contact the person in charge of the blog immediately after the announcement of this project. As a result, this assignment is not done after a few months. Therefore, I learnt that everything must be done earlier so that you don’t have to worry about the problem later.

Besides, I also learnt that social communication is so important. We are living in an interdependent society. We depend on each other to survive. Hence, we must equip ourselves with adequate communication skills so that we are able to communicate with others well. As I have mentioned just now, I contact the person only after the end of the semester is around the corner. Hence, I have a lot to do at the end of the semester. In the end, I know that communicate with others is very important.

In conclusion, we are living in an interdependent society which requires us to have good communication skills. Besides, we also need to prepare things earlier so that we won’t trouble ourselves in the future.

the importance of the kindness

Kindness is one of the most important and fascinating qualities of our human experience.
It is gratifying to watch as humans share their love, generosity and good nature. It is sad that this quality seems to be most evident on our planet only when there is a crisis. That is when people easily reach out to one another with no barriers to race or color or religion. It is interesting that this quality lies dormant for much of our humanity other than at those times. It is as if kindness is to be used on certain occasions like an outfit that you wear on Sunday only. During the crisis it emerges in full force. As soon as the crisis is over many of these same people go back to being a person that is full of prejudice, anger and resentment.

How and why humanity can activate kindness at will and then conveniently put it away is a mystery. What is it about a crisis situation that awakens the kindness and compassion within us? It may be that when the crisis occurs whether it is physical, mental, emotional, financial or some universal catastrophe, it is an opportunity for humanity to awaken to its true nature which has kindness and compassion fully integrated. It is after the crisis is over that humanity must continue to pay attention and be aware of the importance of human kindness.

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