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Today’s college kids need jobs more than they ever have before. For the last 20 years, the tuition’s that have been charged have gone up to the point where few can afford to pay them without some kind of help. While there might have been a fair number of students who did not need work 20 or 30 years ago, jobs now are a necessity for most that have hopes of ever paying off their school loans. Jobs for college students have become very important if they want to be able to afford the increasingly high costs. Many years ago when college was more affordable, fewer students needed jobs to get by. Now though, with so many students needing loans to pay for their tuition and other college expenses, the need for jobs has never been greater.

This tremendous need for jobs has come at the absolute worst time. With our economy reeling, employers have had to cut back drastically and many jobs have been eliminated as well as many companies having gone bankrupt. Students are facing increased competition for the fewer number of jobs that are available.

In years past, almost any college student who needed a job could find one somewhere. They could be found at the college cafeteria, library, recreation center, or at many of the business establishments in town. Now though, things have changed greatly from that time and students are finding fewer jobs everywhere and the ones that are available are harder to get. They now need prior experience to effectively compete for many of the jobs.

This is an unfortunate turn of events for many students who should be at college studying hard and enjoying their time there. College is an important learning experience and students should not have the added pressure of having to find a job in order to pay for it. With college costs so high, even if a job is found there is a high likelihood that many students will graduate with a substantial amount of debt.

For many, if a job cannot be found, it may mean that they will have to drop out of school. If that happens, they will just be back home looking for another job that will also be hard to find. This is the first young generation in many years that has had to face such a difficult job environment and it is surely going to impact many of their lives for years to come.

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2 Comments

• Yahoo News says:

  June 9, 2010 at 12:16 pm

  Yahoo News…

  This is really great news today….
• joe says:

  September 1, 2010 at 10:59 pm

  Things are not like they used to be its a dog eat dog world now where everyone is doing what they have to do to get by.