In some countries young people are encouraged to work or travel for year between finishing high school and starting university studies.

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students have the possibility
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when they finish high school and before starting university studies, to have a gap
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year
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they can
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or travel in order to make a more informed choice for their own future
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. In favour of
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opportunity
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there is the possibility to start working and understanding how the world of
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works with its rules and with the necessity to create relationships with colleagues.
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, working is important to understand the importance of taking responsibility and the difficulty of managing the money earned. Starting
work
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early can help you understand what your inclinations are and help you make a more informed choice of the type of study to undertake
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so that
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are closer to
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own desires and
life
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experiences. In fact,
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choice, probably, will
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. Working will give them the opportunity to know new people who, surely, will enrich them with new experiences e knowledge.
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travelling could be most useful to know new cultures and ways of
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and can help to reduce the stress of daily
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. At the same time could be useful to learn how to manage better money and time. Against
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possibility,
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, we can say that
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gap
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could be very unproductive and unuseful because it could be very expensive because of
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and,
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, could do losing one
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to study. In conclusion,
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opportunity could bring the advantage to understand the importance of money and
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managing
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and the difficulties of the world of
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but it could have
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some disadvantages.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Cultural immersion
  • Life experience
  • Work ethic
  • Career readiness
  • Self-discovery
  • Delayed gratification
  • Intellectual stagnation
  • Financial implications
  • Social dynamics
  • Academic trajectory
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