Students with Jobs Series

Sophomore Molly Dixon has been working at PJ’s Pizza since before her freshman year of high school.  Making pizzas, bringing people their food, scooping ice cream, and ringing up customers has all become as much a part of Molly’s life as homework and school activities. Her tired legs take her from school, to home, to work, and back home again.  “It can definitely be stressful at times,�...

According to the US Census, 1 in 4 students holds a part-time job position, which estimates to about 3 million students worldwide. To further put that into perspective, in each class during the day, seven to eight of the students head to their part-time job after school or during the weekend. Do the benefits outweigh the downfalls? Or does each drawback overshadow the limited benefits of working durin...

For many students, homework and stress take over their lives into the late, eerie hours of the night.  For a few, these hours become even later as the commitment to employment begins to control their already packed schedules.  Day after day, I watch as exhausted students force their dreary eyes awake and stumble into first hour. Their bodies are becoming used to the sleep deprivation, but t...

School at FHC runs from 7:45 am to 2:45 pm, a long seven hours riddled with tests, homework, and studious students. Yet outside of this commitment—one that rivals the length of an adult job—some students extend their responsibilities beyond this with part-time jobs. According to Child Trends organization, 50% of people aged 16-24 were employed in 2018. While 16 is the commonly accepted age for j...