They say that If you work hard for something, you'll eventually get it. Lets look at some common everyday examples. Say you're working at the office, you've been filling papers all week, collecting your bosses coffee every morning and at some point you just feel out of it and just worked out to your limit. But at the end of the week, when you receive that pretty little envelop with a pay check inside, you know you've done well and that all that hard work was definitely worth it.
So here are, living in a world where "Money is everything" , and the strive for success actually gets us places. In fact, where would anyone of us be today if we didn't have a goal to reach every step of the way. You wake up, goal number 1, you get out of bed, goal number 2, you get ready for school/work, goal number 3, and the list goes on. The strive for success comes with the great inner responsibility to push yourself to run that extra mile to achieve your goals. We work hard, do our best, and set our eyes on a goal. The question is, are we always rewarded in the end? NO.
Once students graduate from their hardworking years of university, one of their first goals is to find a paying job that will financially support them and rewards them with the lifestyle they need. The question here is, is there a certain age that we need to be to begin being paid for handwork? And, why has society agreed upon working adults getting paid and not young students?
Right now in the United States of America, based on statistics there are 81.5 million students in school (not yet graduated). Although this is a rather large number, this doesn't mean that all of those students are succeeding in school. In fact, 80% of students in the United States are not adequately prepared for the next most important chapter in their lives, University. 90% of cases have shown that when success is encouraged, performance is improved. "Success is everything". My question to the public is, if most of the working population is driven by success, why isn't everyone being rewarded with money? In this case, I am talking about students.
Getting paid as a means of being rewarded for handwork is a very reasonable deal. If students were to be paid for getting good grades in school, this would ultimately leave them hungry for success, resulting in an on-going pattern of setting a positive "goal". Scientific and psychological studies have shown that most of the teenage population will most likely do something knowing that they are getting something in return. If a student wasn't doing so well in school and were "lacking off", this would give them a chance to act upon that and put in effort for good results and, eventually, be rewarded. Call it a selfish act, but in the end we all have to fight for ourselves.
Shocking statistics have shown that 65% of Americans would live on a deserted Island all by themselves for an entire year for 1,000,000.
If students were to be paid after receiving good grades in school, this would not only push them further into the strive for success but a valuable lesson would also have been applied to our young learner's minds; working hard and making good choices does have its results. A sense of mature responsibility would also have been gained by learning the importance of being financially independent. For example, appreciating the value of money and not always begging mom and dad for toys.
As you get older and eventually attain a job, you obviously receive a salary that is paid to you regularly. When I say job you're probably thinking about accountants, doctors, pilots and actors. I am trying to explain to you a reasonable reality. Students are eventually workers, who do what they are told (most of the time) and apply their knowledge at school for 7 hours a day for a week; the same amount of working hours as any other adult. So why aren't they getting paid? Some may argue that it's because their young. Let me ask you this, how does that a bad thing? The younger you start, the faster the lives of our financially independent growing youth evolve.
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