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Balancing high school, a pandemic, and a part-time job ​
By Vanessa Brohman
     Many high school students are working part time jobs while attending school. Having a job during high school is already difficult enough, but add a pandemic and online school and students are left bending over backward to learn. I decided to interview classmates to understand the struggles and successes of having a job during these difficult times. I was surprised by what I learned during our chats. 
     Ella is a student at Canterbury High School who also works as a part-time bakery associate at a grocery store. She took this job because she wants work experience, needs to pay for her phone and is saving money for college.
      Ella has expressed and shared both positives and struggles she faced this year.  Ella says her coworkers do not always follow Covid guidelines, and that concerns her. She mostly struggled with work hours, finding herself sometimes overworked, sometimes underworked, and having no control over the number of hours she worked per week.
​     Also, Ella has been paid less in the last month than before Christmas. She explains that she and other employees are frustrated with shorter shifts given little if any input. Furthermore, Ella finds work can be both mentally and physically draining with customers' demands in particular. ​

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      On a positive note, the grocery store has been respectful with her schoolwork, even allowing her to skip a shift when Ella's changed an assignment due date.Ella advises other students to look for a job but remember to communicate with managers and to know that we all deserve respect.
​     I also talked with Evelyn, who works at a fast-food restaurant as a cook. Evelyn took the job to earn money and get out of the house. In the summer, she worked eight-hour shifts four days a week. Now she is lucky to get one four-hour shift a week.  Evelyn does not find it hard to balance school and work, given the few hours she is working.
     Evelyn reports that the restaurant respects all covid rules, and she is comfortable working there. However, Evelyn acknowledges that her social anxiety is a challenge in the workplace. She does, however, feel that she has learned to communicate better and is more accountable. This has also helped her at school. 
​     Evelyn gives the advice that students should be prepared to encounter unpleasant managers and to speak up when needed.
I was surprised that time management was not an issue for either young woman. Instead, they both faced social challenges. I admire their organizational skills and determination. We will look back on all the ways that this school year has been unique. ​

                                                                                                                                              The Wallflower is a proud production of Canterbury's TGG3M program
  • HOME
  • SPRING 2021
    • Pointe Shoe Anatomy
    • Visual Arts gallery
    • Gr. 12s: Life after high school
    • Treating vaccine hesitancy
    • Getting the job done
    • Galadriel_SewMachine
    • The (art) show goes on
    • Romance during Covid
    • TikTok & Mental Health
    • Pandemic Pets
    • Damage over Time
    • Post-secondary in a Pandemic
    • Mask Off
    • RIlla_MushroomFairyHouse
  • Radio Free Canterbury
  • Earn a credit with The Wallflower
  • Virtual Club Schedule
  • Course selection
  • #snacktime: A VIsual Arts Exhibit
  • Back Issues
    • March 2021 >
      • Quarantine Passtimes
      • My TOY STORY
      • School: Why go back?
      • Salty Dogs
      • Dog days of Lockdown
      • Beauty of winter
      • Spring in the air
      • StarvingArtist
    • February 2021 >
      • Comfort quest
      • Eat, Sleep, Instagram
      • Online learning: The Success
      • Online learning: The Struggle
      • Sustaining Canterbury Spirit
      • PSP Rules the School
      • Memories of Lunch
      • Presidential perspectives
      • Crocheting a flower
      • Rocking out to Records
      • Safety Dance: Ballet in a Pandemic
      • What I like about Me
      • First Snowstorm
      • Giving & Receiving
      • Locked Up Fun
      • Covid: The Great Wait
      • Obsession
      • Real Potter Magic
    • January 2021 >
      • Virtual auditions
      • Pandemic projects
      • PhotoEssay: Students of Cohort A
      • Promises for the new year
      • Yubo
      • Shop, shop, shop online
      • No masking style
      • The Small Business Struggle
      • PSP students online
      • Cancel culture conflict
      • Winter driving
      • School, Covid, Work, Repeat
      • A new scientific balance
      • Photo Essay: Winter is Coming
      • Photo Essay: Other Side of the Screen
      • Photo Essay: Day in the Lockdown
      • Photo Essay: Glebe during a pandemic
    • December 2020 Features >
      • Christmas spirit
      • HOME2
      • The New Age of Teaching
      • The 4-Hour Sit
      • Covid Change & Challenges
      • Impact of Quarantine
      • Covid Closes Caf
      • PSP Winter Worries
      • Snow and Peace
      • Covid & Academic Motivation
      • Cloaked Chords
      • The Gifting Dilemma
      • Screen Ed: Pathway or Obstruction?
      • A Covid Kinda Christmas
      • Video Games as Sport
      • StudCo still running
      • Competing through Covid
      • The Lost Season
      • Self Care
    • November 2020 >
      • Amazing Race Canterbury
      • Halloween photo gallery
      • Photo essay: Grasping the Guitar
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    • eboktest