Brockton High School Job Analysis

I got my first job during the start of my junior year and at first, it was easily manageable to keep up with both school and work. As time progressed, it became clear as day that I was in way over my head, my maturity level was insufficient for the tremendous responsabitity of this major life event. Brockton High school is a very prestigious school and compared to other schools of similar size such as Durfee High school in Fall River our curriculum and performance is far superior. Taking honors classes only adds to the tremendous workload provided by the school. Being the immature sixteen years old, when hours began to add up at work school grades began to decrease. Throughout school, I have been able to maintain a B average in the majority of my classes but with the added responsibility of work, my priorities were out of order. Stores are typically busy during the holiday season; Target is no acceptation. When I began working, I would average a measly twenty hours a week but as time progressed, twenty hours quickly became close to forty hours a week. Typically working from 4:00pm to quarter of ten and getting home by quarter past ten …show more content…
As living support of this study, I spent nights staying up late to finish homework and managed to worsen my grade rather than improve it because staying up late made it extremely difficult to focus in class. The lack of focus began appearing on my tests, as my grades were egregiously poor. After weeks of sleepless nights, I made the decision to do no homework for a while in order to improve focus in class. My reasoning being class work is worth thirty percent of your grade as opposed to homework’s miniscule ten percent. My parents then tried to become involved by forcing me take a day off during the week in order to catch up on all missed work, this helped me moderately but my grades were still insufficient to my