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Is it normal to not allow your child to get a job? Do you believe its right and how many of you dealt with it at legal working age. The thought is people who work before graduating will not get into university.
| My parents did it | 11 | |
| My parents did not | 3 | |
| Other | 6 |
If they want to work let them! There's not many people who want to work these days, they'd rather just sit down and claim everything of the hard workers.
I know people who have had a job and got into uni :s
Hell no go to colledge. All you parents see in your kids are money. Dont force them to do the shit you did and end up workin at mcdonalds cuz yo dumass got sidetrackted
It is better to work before university, you get experience and potential employers are more likely to hire you.
I don't know what it's like in other countries, but here it's normal that people take a year or two to work before going to university
Why would work stop a kid getting into uni? If I worked in university admissions, I'd *prefer* someone who showed the maturity and initiative to have a job.
Since they believe they will stop focusing on school. Since apparently you cant do school and do any extra activity's after school. Some parents are very anti work for this reason.
I live in the UK and I don't know if you do or if it's the same where you live, but over here it's extremely encouraged to get a job specifically because university admissions officers look upon it fondly. It might be an urban myth that it can negatively effect your chances.
I'm a firm believer that you should let kids do what they want and make their own mistakes and write their own story.
I started part time work 6mths after I started uni.
Four years later, I dropped out without a degree. I now work for myself and have done so for the last five years.
How did you go to college four years and not get a degree? I thought four years was a bachelors?
Part time, plus last two years I failed and retook stuff due to having my self worth completely crushed and being overwhelmed by a sense of hopelessness and depression, leading to anxiety that made me skip classes and not turn in assignments.
Fun times. I wish I'd just worked from the start.