How to Study, Work Part Time and Have a Meaningful Life in Your Teenage and Young Adult Years
This post is guest blogged by Asif Karim.
Balancing Study and Work While Maintaining fun in life:
The best & the most enrapturing fraction of our entire life is, needless to say, the teenage and the early adulthood. Everyone goes through it, everyone craves to make the most out of it, and as true as it is, this is indeed the exact and the most apposite passage to take off!
BUT, here comes the catch, a catch that lies behind a layer of almost undetectable yet omnipresent weight of significance. That is, this teen and early youth is also the time to DECIDE what is that you really want to be in life, what is that makes you satisfied. There are many open fields out there, many professions of great reverence and intrigue.
Different people are flourished through different ways of life, for which they are mostly suited, which comes naturally to them. And almost in any case, whatever the profession you decide to take up as your life’s destiny, you must become well-versed and expert at it. That itself entails the fact that you must pay enough attention to your studies in your chosen field. Cause only knowledge and good standings in academic stations will bring laurels for you once you enter into the planet of real jobs.
So, in any case, you can not really be lax at your studies and expect a solid platform is building up out of nothing. But one thing to clarify is that you actually don’t need to become a typical nerd or bookworm sort of a character, there is time for everything, besides self-study, do enjoy and relax when the opportunity arises out of situations, or when have grown hackneyed over things then take a traveling tour somewhere nice, I can bet that it will most certainly perk up your life.
Now what about that part time work you dream of so ardently? What about that extra bunch of cash that’ll make your friend circle outing more shining, that’ll able you to present your loved ones those small tokens of gift that lift up their faces ? Ya, don’t worry, if you are really smart at proceeding with your life in a certain fashion, and is able to project a clear long term vision, you can also churn out times out of your ever-constrained schedule of assignments and dating, that you will need to make those extra cash in hand. Alongside you can also keep up the higher grades in your academic venture in proper place.
For me I found the following technique most effectual:
- Think hard and decide your chosen field of study, and don’t go for part time work straightway when you are out of school, because in that stage of your life, you really don’t need so much cash that your parents will not be able to furnish you with. Instead enjoy your time with friends and family AND devote a lot of time on self study of your chosen field.
- Even if your official study has not started in the form of Bachelor Degree. Try to research about the subject a bit, what to study and what not, and then dedicate some quality time on it.
- Try to learn and hone your skill in that field, build up that basic with strong knowledge and belief on yourself, you don’t need to be a master of it even before you instigate college, but the basics, the foundation, upon which the monument will be erected. A time span of 1 to 1.5 year on this self study WILL make you a competent student of the subject later on.
Now, here comes the fruit of it, You enroll yourself officially, you start taking lessons officially, and slowly you come to appreciate the fact that you are not having to burn up your late night cozy sleep to understand the theories of:
- not having to leak your tank of patient on figuring out how to do the assignments
- not having to postpone parties and traveling for the sake of few classes
- not having to run behind people who actually can solve those ever-mysterious projects for you.
Instead, you see that all is coming naturally to you, all is going normally, without any fruition or incidental craziness. Study seems a lot easier to you than to others. Because you already have built the basics that others have just started to work out. Not only that, you’ll find extra time for other activities also. This is when you know from your heart that you can carry on with some side activities such as some part time work cause it will not hurt your educational purpose nor your usual recreational and fun lifestyle.
That’s it. Just build up some strong foundations about your studies for a while, then later you can nicely balance your work life with studies, cause you will have sufficient time to carry out your respective duty while able to maintain good academic standings, which should be your cardinal motive. And with those extra bucks in your pockets, fascinating faces of world Itself will come to you.
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