High-school is a time when everything is wonderful during school hours but many students do after-school hour works so how do they balance their work with their studies? We live in the 21st century where being good in studies is just not enough we need to focus on extra-curricular and do other tasks also. But is that easy to tackle all of that with these many distractions?
Being a current high school and doing internships is not at all easy, if you are thinking that it would be just a cup of tea for you. Some days I get so exhausted and skip the work of all day and get on to my phone and start scrolling. Then get double load for next day’s work. There are goals, which you are aiming to reach in school and in professional front. Being a person who does many competitions and MUNs for which hours are required to do a research of every single committee. For those wondering how can we do internships or part time work, I prefer working online instead of going to any office or any other place during school years, but if we talk about summer jobs then it is absolutely understandable that going physically to any place for internship would indeed be more preferable in my opinion.
So as mentioned above it really gets very disturbing and problematic to do all the work. But as we all mention in our resumes- that we can do it… even I found a better way to manage everything that I think is my responsibility to share with other students who are struggling in the same way as I did earlier.
• Proper time table – I know it might feel childish to write something down with sketch- pens on a sheet of paper, but to be honest its absolutely effective. It doesn’t matter if you note on piece of paper you can even just make it virtually on any docs or excel sheet. You should know the reality that it won’t be always that you would be able to follow the similar timetable every single day as the work can increase or decrease. So you should be always ready to accept the changes if you are taking this challenge.
• Loosing friends is normal- As mentioned above it is 21st century where there are lot of distractions, when you start scrolling 2 to 3 hours passes just in a blink of eye. Yes that is reality that your schedule became so packed that one doesn’t get any time to make plans with friends. And it is reality that these things can cut your friendship but, you can talk to them and make them understand about the busy schedule, and if they don’t support you then we can say that your friendship is not real.
• Prioritize your education- working at should not affect your education you should always take the reasonable amount of time for your education. As your goal is to get all-rounder and academics is utmost important for the future.
• It needs nights of work- I know most hectic thing for me was the exam time and tackling the work. Pulling all-nighters might be needed, I know it is not best thing to do that. But I once I heard someone say ‘‘you are the young people, your blood is young. You can wake up till 3 or 4am and complete your work, and when you will sleep after 2 days of completing your work the sleep which you will get, would be tension free and that would be most relaxing.’’ These thoughts really just keep me going further and further.
• Take refuge in your parents and family- friends can get jealous and that reality, but parents they always want best for you. Whenever it becomes exhausting you could go and cry and tell your problems to them they will help you and make you feel like home.
• Maintain dairy or journal-we all know sometimes it’s difficult to tell your problems to any one so just maintain a diary to reflect your thoughts.
• Take time you relax every day- watch an episode or a movie, read a book, or you can simply go out for cycling or a walk. Just do something to take your mind of the work and get refreshed in a way that you like.
• Take days off is important- being burned-out is of no use so just take a week in a day off, if you want to go out for shopping or partying just do that on that day. It is important to be on holidays and take mind off school or work. As we should even enjoy our life as there should be a balance maintained.
