Pros and cons of part-time jobs for college students
Wenyan: Modern society is highly competitive and requires comprehensive talents. But this kind of talent is based on a great foundation of professional knowledge and can extensively engage in a variety of practical abilities. And sometimes there are so-called "comprehensive talents" who have "practical ability" but no theoretical knowledge. How can one be considered a qualified talent if he has not even mastered his own professional knowledge?
Nowadays, many college students have joined the army of part-time jobs, and even many freshmen are not willing to lag behind, which is quite common. While working part-time at Gao Gao, he also calls it euphemistically: "increase social experience and cultivate comprehensive abilities." Is this really the case? I see that may not be the case! Let’s analyze the pros and cons of part-time jobs for college students!
I have always firmly believed that no matter how time changes, learning is always the first priority for college students. The original intention of the university was to inherit human civilization, benefit society, and explore and transform the world. The role of universities is to cultivate students' independent thinking spirit. Teaching students the skills to make a living is only a small part of the equation. This is where the difference between universities and vocational colleges lies.
But now students who study a lot have blurred this boundary and regard their college experience purely as capital for finding a job. Part-time jobs and exams have replaced study and research as their main job. This kind of indifferent understanding of priorities and putting the cart before the horse has become a chronic disease in the ideological understanding of contemporary college students. Of course, part-time work and study are not mutually exclusive. The key is how you handle it.
Part-time jobs are generally divided into two categories. One is for some people from poor family backgrounds who have no choice but to do part-time jobs. To subsidize household expenses. Such students generally manage the relationship between study and part-time work very well. We will leave this category aside and focus on analyzing the second category. They are the "students" who work part-time jobs for the sake of part-time jobs and neglect their studies.
There are similar classmates around me. When it comes to selling phone cards, selling purified water, and acting as marketing agents, they are very clear-cut and eloquent. When it comes to their professional knowledge, they don't know anything about it, and they look dumbfounded. Their "practical experience" has increased a lot, but in the end they failed in many exams, have no professional knowledge, and wasted four years in college. time. As a result, I found that I had no special skills except for "work ability", and my professional courses were also wasted. When I set foot on the job, I found that I had no preparation for the professional knowledge that I most urgently needed. This time, students who are full of enthusiasm and ability for work have no space and opportunity to display their abilities! Because he doesn't even have basic working abilities. Is it sad? The water flows eastward and the skills are useless. In the end, such students will look up to the sky and sigh with regret.
Indeed, modern society is highly competitive and requires comprehensive talents. But this kind of talent is based on a great foundation of professional knowledge and can extensively engage in a variety of practical abilities. And sometimes there are so-called "comprehensive talents" who have "practical ability" but no theoretical knowledge. How can one be considered a qualified talent if he has not even mastered his own professional knowledge?
Increased temptation, increased opportunities, and diversified choices. Making specificity increasingly difficult. Don’t you know that “it takes ten years for a bench to sit cold”? The reason why a nail can drill into a wooden board is precisely because of its single-mindedness and persistence. Here I am reminded of the “Pygmalion Effect” in psychology. The sculptor Pygmalion carefully sculpted a statue of the goddess for decades. Finally one day God was moved by it and ordered the statue to turn into a magnificent woman who came to earth to be his wife. A wonderful marriage. A beautiful legend has been created. This may give us a lot of inspiration!
Another ancient legend in China also illustrates the great power of concentration, that is, the legend of Foolish Old Man who moved mountains. Yu Gong's perseverance finally moved the Emperor of Heaven, so the Jade Emperor ordered the gods to remove the mountain, fulfilling Yu Gong's wish. As the saying goes, "Where there is a will, there is a way." "Hard work pays off." Persistence and concentration are enough to "shock the heavens and the earth and weep ghosts and gods."
If the legend alone is not trustworthy, then please take a look at the following examples: I believe everyone has read Zeng Gong's "The Story of the Mochi". This is a genuine example, so I won't go into details; during the Sui and Tang Dynasties In order to practice calligraphy, the famous calligrapher Zhiyong used the broken brush tip alone to hold five large pen heads; and the "Grass Sage" Monk Huaisu of the Tang Dynasty even built a tomb for his broken brush tip, called " "Bi Zhong", and because he had no money to buy paper, he used the banana leaves around his house as paper to connect them. In the end, tens of thousands of banana plants were connected
Do I need to give more examples like this? The ancients have set enough examples for us. It's just that our contemporary college students seem to be too smart. The smart ones regard single-mindedness as pedantry and persistence as conservative. Nothing more. . . . . . .
In fact, there is nothing wrong with working part-time in itself. The key lies in our attitude and way of doing things. We can do part-time jobs while studying! For example, you can work as a teaching assistant, as a tutor, as a deputy to teachers and professors, those who study economics can do marketing appropriately, and those who study law can work part-time in a law firm, etc. This can not only increase your practical experience and improve your practical work ability, but also consolidate your professional knowledge and achieve multiple goals with one stone. Why not do it?
Of course, we cannot have a completely negative attitude towards those students who work part-time.
Maybe their starting point is good, but good intentions may not necessarily lead to good results. If you are not going in the right direction, you may even go further and further down the wrong path.
Indeed, it is not easy to maintain a normal mind in the noisy modern society. What's more, what about the young students who are dreaming about wonderful dreams in their ivory towers? But this should not be an excuse or shield for us to make mistakes or go astray!
Precisely because it is not easy to maintain a normal mind in today's society, it shows the preciousness of single-mindedness and persistence. If you are single-minded to a certain extent, you will become "crazy"! Pu Songling once said: "Sex-crazy people will condense their ambitions; those who are obsessed with ancient books must be good at writing; those who are obsessed with art must have good skills." Even if we cannot reach the state of madness, We can still learn to be single-minded and persistent.
Speaking of this. Looking back at those masters and scholars, which one has made admirable achievements without decades of study? Like Qian Zhongshu, like Chen Yinke, like Hu Shi.
So, here I sincerely remind my fellow students and scholars, including myself. You must learn to be single-minded and persistent. Persistence is victory. It is especially valuable to learn to be single-minded when you are young. I am not against part-time work, but I hope everyone will think carefully about how to work part-time and how to handle the relationship between study and part-time work.
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