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It is becoming increasingly popular for people to have a year off between finishing school and going to university. Do the advantages of having a gap year outweigh its disadvantages?

#people #year #school #university #gap
In
this
 present world, the popularity of
students
 having a
gap
year
 between graduating from school and starting for
the
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university had increased gradually. From my point of view,
although
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having a
gap
year
 seems to be a waste of
time
, they offer an opportunity for
students
 to find themselves and be able to learn in a correct
career
path
 in the university. On the one hand, one of the
advantage
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 of
students
 having a
gap
year
 is that they have
time
 to search for jobs they would like to do. As we all know, working life takes more than half of our lifetime. Some of the
students
 use
this
gap
year
 opportunity to search for their jobs that they have a passion
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 by doing
the
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work
 placement or taking a short course. I truly believe that if we are able to
work
 on what we enjoy
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, we will be able to
work
 more efficiently than others who did not have a passion
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which result
for
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 more opportunity to grow on that
career
path
.
On the other hand
, there are some disadvantages of having a
gap
year
which
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one of
that is
 the waste of
time
. Some people have done the
work
 placement and
still
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 not sure of the
path
 they will be choosing and
ending
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 up
by
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learning on a course that they might not like.
Moreover
, it might make the
students
to
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miss some of the opportunities on their
career
path
.
For instance
, in the covid pandemic situation, jobs are very hard to find. If the
students
 did not have a
year
 off they might already have a job as a
year
 earlier the world situation is still normal as usual. To summarize, it is true to say that
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having a
year
 off will help
students
 to find a
career
 that they really want to
work
 on.
However
, it might be a waste of
time
 if that person did not find what
career
 that they really want to
work
 for the rest of their life.
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