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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Is summer for working or building resumes?
How should a summer be spent by teens? Is it OK to enter college never having worked before?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It seems to be a trend for teen-agers to spend their summers improving their resumes for scholarships and college applications and not working the menial jobs of yore. They go and build houses for Habitat or attend summer classes instead of flipping burgers or being camp counselors.
But is this a good thing? Are teens losing out on a valuable experience not working before they enter college? Is it wise for their first real job to be their first job ever?
Is increasing their chances for a big-payout scholarship a more valuable experience than working?
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