What are the positive effects of having a job or volunteering in the summer?

By Hasan A. Rabbani Gr, 8
Getting a job or volunteering in the summer is an excellent way to open the door to professional and educational opportunities. First of all, each job and volunteering opportunity provides a unique experience that comes with its own set of obstacles and scenarios for you to overcome and learn from. It also helps you gain and improve skills specific or general to school and work.
Finally, these opportunities add more to your future post-secondary applications by showcasing your hard work and dedication. Overall, getting a job or volunteering in the summer can provide unique learning experiences, help better your skillset, and boost your post-secondary applications.
Firstly, every job and volunteering opportunity comes with experiences for us to learn from.
When we face an obstacle at our workplace, it’s an opportunity to choose the right path to overcome our problems and learn for
tomorrow.
Even when we choose the wrong path, we have a chance to reevaluate our actions and avoid making those same mistakes in the future.
Sometimes we may hit an obstacle at work, be entirely lost and be forced to ask others for help but this is yet another kind of learning experience since we now know what to do in the future.
Learning experiences are common in every job and volunteering opportunity and often present themselves in different ways, but each of them makes us stronger.
Furthermore, jobs and volunteer opportunities are some of the best ways to quickly and effectively enhance and add to your skill set. A crucial life skill that we’ll need anywhere we go is communication, and jobs and volunteer opportunities are a great way to improve your skills and prepare you for different types of coworkers and peers. Another essential skill is time management, as with bad time management, you will never get work done as you’re expected to. As you’re given deadlines and timed objectives, you’ll learn to manage your time in a way that allows you to have a healthy work-life balance. Yet another crucial skill to all jobs and volunteer opportunities is leadership, you will come across an instance where you will be put in a team and you must be the leader without any previous experience. This will lead you to greatly improve your leadership skills, and lead you to be prepared for the next time you need to be a leader. As your skills are put to use, they will grow, and you’ll learn new skills to help you aid your journey through life, inside the workplace, and out.
Lastly, jobs and volunteer opportunities add to your post-secondary applications by displaying your tireless efforts and devotion. Your job and volunteer opportunities show your superior that you’re hard-working and dedicated.
It shows them that you’ll be a meaningful and dependable part of their organization or institution. The hard work you’ve put in also shows them how you have legions of experience from many different scenarios and how you’ve grown from them. It shows that you know what you’re doing and you’re a very capable person.
Most importantly, it shows them your devotion to helping people around you and to giving back to your community. These jobs and volunteer opportunities could be the deciding factor in your post-secondary application, and make up a massive part of your application.
In conclusion, there are many rewards to getting a job or volunteer opportunity in the summer as it provides many different experiences, is an effective way to grow and add to your skill set, and adds to your post-secondary application. A job or volunteer opportunity is worth the time and effort that it requires considering the benefits it has, and it is one of the best ways to lay down a foundation for your post-secondary future.