Aristotle once said, “Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.” This statement further backs up why I believe Amitai Etzioni’s article “The Fast-Food Factories: McJobs are Bad for Kids” is wrong to state simple jobs in industries like fast food are making teenagers and young adults uncreative and lazy. Helping run a simple family business for 7+ years has given me enough experience to debate if certain jobs are harmful to teenagers and young adults like myself. Soon off to college and soon off to my first major career I believe that it is essential for teenagers and others to take up simple jobs as mentioned in Etzioni’s article. This is so workers can build a foundation of life skills to prepare them for their future life careers.…show more content… She believes that starting workers off in an environment where there is little room to change or learn will impair them causing them to become lazy and uncreative in their future endeavors. Etzioni argues today’s jobs are much different than those of our Found Fathers which usually involved things like apprenticeships, due to this change she attempts to contradict the Founding Fathers beliefs that teenagers and young adults should seek jobs early on. What she believes is that we as a society should ensure the jobs for teenagers and young adults provide them with more flexibility, knowledge, and higher wages so that they do not become accustomed to the harsh traditions of current jobs that require little less than a grammar school education to…show more content… To conclude I agree only partially with Amitai Etzioni's argument that "McJobs are bad for kids" because things only break when overused not when immediately introduced or generally used. I also see that these jobs should be on a strict routine and a low pay grade to train young workers to not expect much without things like previous experience or a college degree. Overall as long as we understand as a society that teenagers and young adults are actually slowly learning at these beginner jobs we can ensure that confusion about them in the future is minimal. The last step tied in with this as stated before is that we as a society can come together to ensure teenagers and young adults move on over time to different jobs in completely different fields so that when they are ready to enter a life career they won't be lazy, confused, or
