Holiday just came and past with the blink of an eye. It is so fast that I still cant get use to school life yet, thinking that it is still the holidays and I can still slack.

Thinking back, I feel that I have not done any thing meaningful throughout the whole holiday except training, playing and more playing.

This topic suddenly came into my mind when I was thinking about what I should have done over the holidays to make it more exciting and meaningful and I feel that I can share with you guys what are the pros and cons of working during the school holidays in my point of view.

There are two long school breaks a year and it is a time where student relax and enjoy their carefree life of not going back to school. There is no homework and even if there is, there is about a month to do it so student don’t really do their homework. It is only during the last week or the last few days of the holidays do they start “chionging” their homework so as to hand in sloppy work to their ever-demanding teachers.

There aren’t many things that we student can do except for sleeping, playing computer games, watching the television, shopping, going out with friends, reading a book ( for those hard-workings ones) and going back to school for remedial lessons. Each day come and go just like that and by the end of the holiday, you will realize that you haven’t really make the most out of your time and didn’t accomplish much.

Hence, rather than wasting your precious time like that, why not try to work during the holidays?

Firstly, working allows you to earn extra cash, which allows you to buy anything that you want. It trains both your responsibility and independent as you do not have to depend on your parents for money and when you are working and you have to be responsible for what you are doing or else you will faced severe consequences and complaints from your boss and your clients or customers should you be working in the service line.

It also allows you to get the experience of working, how hard it is to earn money. This enables you to understand the hardship that your parent faced when they are working so as to provide the family with enough income. Through this you will slowly learn to be less spendthrift and even help your parents save money by not buying stuff that you don’t need. You can be more mature by not letting your parent worry about you be it your studies or your well-being by showing them that you can take care of yourself so as to lighten the already heavy burden that they had to carry. By working, it also allows you to widen your social circle and make new friends.

However, working also has its disadvantages. Firstly, you might be influence by your fellow colleagues and pick up their bad habits like smoking, gambling speaking coarse languages and maybe even drug trafficking which might pollute your pure and innocent minds and this is one of the major reason why parents are reluctant to allow their child to work during the holidays. Furthermore, some parents care so much about their child that they do not want to let their precious child to suffer any hardship derive from working. They rather their child stay at home and study or revise their school work.( most student don’t really do them during the holidays.)

I feel that these parents are being too over-protective of their child and they should allow their child to see what exactly is the real world instead of keeping them shut up at home. If they are afraid that the working environment might be bad for their child, they can find out more about what exactly will their child be doing before allowing them to work there.

In conclusion, I feel that those who want to make the most out of their time, they can try working during the holidays provided that their grades in school are quite good so that they would not have to study and can still catch up when school reopens.(like I said most student do not study during the holidays so it doesn’t really matter)

What are your opinions then? Should we really work during the school holidays? Are there any other meaningful things that we can do during the school holidays?