Mattoon High School - Riddle Yearbook (Mattoon, IL)

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JOBS AND CAREERS Student help makes up a large number of employees in the retail and grocery stores, res- taurants, and gas stations. Extra cash accounts for the main reason teens spend their free time searching for and finally landing part time jobs. Saving for the Friday night date. gas, car pay- ments, college, or marriage often become more important than being with friends or doing home- work. Work training courses help many classmen earn credit and money at the same time. The course aids in finding job openings to meet the special wants and needs of students. Those with working experience sometimes have a big advantage over those who have none . Although most jobs taken by teens are tempo- rary, some prepare individuals for future careers. After graduation some seniors find themselves staying with the same employer with more work- ing hours and higher paychecks.

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School and College School is the place most people spend 12 to 16 years of their lives, lis- tening to educated teachers tell them what they should know. What each person learns is a different situation altogether. Even though high school is usually considered dull or boring, each fall returning underclassmen find themselves anxious to begin classes. Their reasons vary from wanting to see friends again to yearning for the year to be over more quickly. - Seniors meet the time to choose a college with much indecision. After a selection is made, scholarship forms arrive to be filled out and sent in. With the forms come spring and senior- itis. The urge to be free and get a full- time job or to further their education becomes more and more intense as graduation approaches. During high school years personali- ties develop and mold into mature adults. College provides the opportu- nity to express more openly those ide- als one has previously acquired.