It is becoming increasingly popular to have a year off between finishing school and going to university. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this?

It has become a trend for

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to prefer to have a

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year

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break between high

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and tertiary

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. The advantages of

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are

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firstly

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a chance for

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to decide what career they will choose, and

secondly

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year

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will give them the opportunity to save some

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to continue their

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.

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, the drawbacks of

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are losing the interest to continue studying

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and may

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in casual work their whole life. The

first

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merit of

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is to choose what subjects they will study. During high

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,

students

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are overwhelmed with their studying of different subjects and are not able to choose what kind of tertiary

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they will study.

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of

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, it is a good opportunity to have a

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year

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break to think about the career they would like to have. The

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advantage is to gain some cash to cover some of their expenses during

university

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studying.

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, because

university

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education

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is not free,

students

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have to have some

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to spend during

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period.

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, the majority of

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degrees in Canada require quite a lot of

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.

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, losing interest in continuing

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is

one

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of the most important drawbacks. If high

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graduates left

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for a

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, they might leave

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for good.

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means that they get used to

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every day, which might lead them to prefer working

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of going back to

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.

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,

students

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may like their job and prefer not to leave it, which means that they would continue their lives and make a family with these minimum wages.

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, there was a study conducted at Queen's

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that showed that most of the

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who have taken a

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year

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vacation have never gone back to

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. In conclusion, the main merits of having a

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year

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off after high

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are choosing their career and saving some

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for tertiary

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. The disadvantages of

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are staying

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kind of

low income

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job and do not like to go back for higher

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