How Jobs Affect Student Life

Feature
By James King
Husky Herald Reporter

  Many Juniors and Seniors in the Port Huron Area School District have part time jobs . The real question is how do these jobs affect their school life. Do the late hours deprive them of much needed rest, or do the after school hours intervene with their homework time?

  Zachariah Muir (‘17) had a tight work schedule of 4pm-10pm at Menards with only Tuesdays and Thursdays off.

  “I barely got any sleep because I would get home and i'd have to eat, use the bathroom, do homework and then I would still want time to myself so I ended up staying until 12:30” said Muir.

  Muir’s grades plummeted from A’s B’s and C’s to C’s D’s and E’s from only having 30 minutes at most to do homework.

  From his lack of sleep Muir said “I was so tired in the morning that I could barely make the bus stop”.

  But not all jobs affect students performance in school. Remy Evenson (‘17), a straight A student at Port Huron Northern, works 3pm-8pm most weekdays, 4pm-10pm on Fridays and sometimes 8am-4pm on weekends.

  Evenson says “It hasn't affected my grades too much, sometimes I don't have time to do my assignments right away, but i'll get it in the next day and it'll be fine.”

  The students grades really depend on the job itself, Evenson states that her bosses did not make students work late on weekdays, so most of her hours were on the weekends, while Muir’s hours were always late even on weekdays which caused the lack of sleep and a less can do attitude.

  This should not deter students from getting a job, they should just talk to their employer and make sure the employer is alright with their sleep schedule as well as their school schedule.