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HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT
WORKING STUDENTS: THEIR CHALLENGES
AND PERSEVERANCE
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By
Jomamel Pepito
Melody Williams
INTRODUCTION
not advisable for students to work at the same time studying. However, there are
path so they opt to work while studying. While this is an honorable way to support
his/her studies, the struggles and the pressure they have to go through is
something not every ordinary student can understand and this makes it difficult
for them to catch up in their tasks and assignments. Every student has their own
aspirations in life, and that is the reason why some students are now working by
have their own aspirations. Now that the number of working students of Palawan
State University is rising. The financial education is rising. Due to the increasing
price of tuition fees, school fees, and other education finances, families tend to
face financial crisis particularly on managing the budget on the family basing on
their family income. These include the budget for food, education, electricity bills,
and other financial bills the family is unable manage it all since their income in
their family, students will be necessitated to work while studying it is either a part
time or a full time working student. In Nigeria, before the establishment of the
National Open University of Nigeria which takes into cognizance the students
who are working and schooling simultaneously, the tertiary institutions hardly
design their calendar and curriculum to favour undergraduate students who are
putting themselves through school. Most times the working students miss
lectures and cumulative assessments which affect their grades and academic
because of the unruly nature of the academic calendar where things aren’t done
hardly perform well in terms of grades. Working students are those students who
work outside the school and having a school responsibility too. Students have so
many reasons to work outside at home. One of these is that they want to help
their parents in earning money to meet the needs of their family. These may
include their everyday needs such as food, shelter, clothing and education.
Others want to work because they feel bored at home and by means of working,
they will able to amuse themselves. Somehow the others work for their personal
interests. That is, they want to use what they have acquired in school and feel
fulfilled just to apply whatever knowledge they have gained in the past.
Money or financial gain is not the main issue but simply expression of self –
fulfillment. Students who are engaged in a job have a carry out their duties and
company relationships student who had stayed at home with their parents were
often eager to get any job. Some really needed extra income and others wanted
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them busy. The successful working students have examined their goals and
With this in thought, we the researchers, aim to identify the reasons why there
school load and time and how this affects their quality of life in general.
The purpose of this study is to know and understand the challenges being
aware with the essential effect of working while studying as well as to their
personal development.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
research aims to answer the above mentioned queries through the research
question below:
interview;
student?
THEORITICAL LENS
This study was anchored by Janet McGreevy (2002). She published her
own article about working students with a title of “Working Students Face Tough
Challenges.” It is declared that the degree belief in the fundamental need for a
college degree cuts across all sectors of American society. She proclaimed that
life is visualized as days of intense study coupled with “getting to know yourself”
through campus involvement, the last hurrah of a carefree life prior to joining the
real world of work after graduation. That study was supported by Angela Walkup
that she learned the ropes as a working student. It is stated that being a working
student is hard but that is the real situation of a working students is a constantly
being watched and evaluated. If a working student is seen as a hard worker and
quick leaner then it will lead him/her to more responsible duties. She testified that
experiences from being a working student are good and but it will be helpful for
your future.
students. This study will mainly identify and asses different factors that affects
the student. Also, this study will mainly identify on how can be the researcher
develop and assist the working students be more mature in identifying, dealing,
and intervening with the challenges of all the working students and aspirations in
life to pursue working even if causes problems to them. This study will be
students to gather some information and use the other resources to be able for
This research can be a source of information about the students who are
will be engaging in work while studying, for them to be aware of the situations
and problems that they will be encountering. By knowing the factors who prefer
to work and study will be responsible and ready for the situation he/she entering.
Further significance is the non – working students and the teachers to be able to
understand the situation of the working students and help them to cope with their
studies.
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES
Over the years, the concept of ‘’work – study balance’’ has been an
ongoing struggle for working students. While there can be a number of factors
involved’ financial crisis is still the primary reason why students take part-time (or
full-time) jobs. Running from school to work and juggling academic requirements
and side-hustles while keeping your family, social, or love life in check is truly
daunting task (Nucum, 20218). The life of a student is not easy. The ones who
are naturally slow have to keep up with the rest of the class. And even the ones
with superior learning abilities are pressured to stay at the top. The student’s
situation is daunting enough. Yet not as daunting as when the student has
something equally important to busy himself or herself with. Many students have
the term “working student” does not seem to elicit sympathetic feeling anymore, it
have grown so much that they have already become commonplace. Or, in a poor
otherwise, young people would only seal their fate in the poverty they were born
into. But poverty is not the only ‘qualification’ for one to be a working student.
able to face up to the challenge. A working student necessarily lives two lives all
at the same time – as worker and as student. The worker needs to be good in the
performance of his or her job, so that he or she may keep job. The student needs
the income to defray the expenses entailed in going to school. And at school it is
important for the student to do well, too, in order to justify to hard-earned money
spent in his or her studies. Anyone who has the need to work in order to
school at the same time may try being a working student. It is never a self-effacing
engagement – but self-elating instead. For, again, it is a special person who can
carry two major life undertakings simultaneously. In this day and age, those who
want to try working and attending school at the same time are blessed with
various options. The number of options, though, does not mean these jobs are
easy. But at least the prospective working student may choose a job that best fits
his or her abilities and available time (Freeman, 2016). College school students
should not work part time while they are going to school because they will get
several disadvantages. The main point of those disadvantages is they will not
extracurricular activity if they do work. The last disadvantage is they will not have
leisure in their teens to play with their peers. As has been noted, there are
several disadvantages that can be happening to you if you were a high school
student which has your own job out of study. There will be bad impacts that can
be appear of your study process. Instead of it, you can get the limited time
because a half of your time off used to work. Likewise, you can lose your leisure
time to enjoy with your friends. The facts showed those disadvantages. As a
result, it might be strong reason, being a student who has his own job is not good
idea. The best way is reason, being a student who has his own job is not good
idea. The best way is students have to give full concentration, time, and passion
their study to get the success (Maret, 2012). The study (Factors Affecting
students’ academic performance. Some are home, school, teacher, and student
factors. Most of the factors are home related: family size, financial burden, work
at home, parental attitude towards education and parenting style. When it comes
to school, the relationship between the teacher and the students and the distance
of the school from home are some factors that affect (Garcia, 2017).
the peer group influence. It reflects the students’ values and priorities when it
comes to the life’s choices. However, spending one hour more on student work
does not necessarily translate into spending one hour less on study activities
(Triventi. 2014). First as students in tertiary education have more flexibility in their
schedules the assumption that working crowds out time spent on activities that
foster academic performance the Zero Sum Theory may be less valid for them.
Indeed, their classes are usually not compulsory and they often have flexibility in
(Triventi, 2014). For examples, their choice is to study hard and give a focus on
the study. Many students need to longer days and longer weeks to carve enough
time for classes, study and work. Most Southwestern College students fail often
because work overwhelms their lives. Students should not have a choice. They
help support their families by chipping in for rent, buying groceries and playing
findings of this study indicated that these students benefited from the
responsibilities that resulted from their dual role as both students and employees
in many ways. However, they also suffered from emotional and physical
stress which resulted in tiredness, lack of sleep, role conflict, homesickness and
mechanisms including finding social support, and participating in leisure and non-
leisure activities to off-set the negative effects of studying and working currently
Kwadzo (2014). According to the studies of Nucum and Kristian, 2013, they have
to maintain a specific time of duty and at the ssame time juggle their time in their
academics. Not every working student is successful in this matter. The amount of
affects their holistic approach in life and how they perceive the future for
themselves and their family. The constant pressure of maintaining a quality work
attitude and output, a quality school career and a quality way of life is a daily
struggle to keep. The several advantages of this pattern is that the students will
not be able to concentrate on his/her studies which should have been the
number priority of the students, they will not enjoy their time as teens and most
specifically, they will miss out on what is the real of high school because they
Research Methodology
the subject matter. Literature such as related thesis and journals were reviewed there
Management to the students while survey questionnaires containing close and open –
ended questions were prepared and administrated in the study area to obtain facts,
opinions and views of respondents of the students. These approaches will represent an
overview of the methods used in the survey, which will include the research design,
consent and research here’s potential impact on the participants and vice versa
(JMed Ethics Hist Med., 2014). In their study able to conduct proper treatment
and did not force them to participate in their study and asked respectfully for their
approval and ensure to them that their privacy would be their priority the
researchers gave them the chance to express their own opinions and ideas and
The American Psychological Association (2009) pointed out that the goal
of research and how it influences practices. In addition, the researchers will need
to ensure that no harm occurs to these voluntary participants and that all
participants have made the decision to assist you after receiving full information
arise from such participation. Those who choose not to participate must also be
given the same information with which to make their decision not to be involved
preferences of the participant were not a problem during the data gathering.
This research will abide by all ethical guidelines and data privacy laws. To
comply with this, the raw data obtained during the survey that collected by the
researchers will be kept with utmost care and confidentially. The information
gathered will be painted outs and saved in a folder, which will be kept in a safe
place where only the researchers has access to it. Accessibility of the research
output and files will be restricted to the authorized office and to the target
publisher for monitoring and validation purposes, and if other researchers would
like to make a secondary data analysis whose reasons are valid, they can make
a request to the office upon the consent of the researcher. All research files shall
be stored for a minimum of three years and proper disposal of these files will be
observed as well.
Research Design
This study utilized the descriptive research design. This type was suitable
to the study because it signified interest to the present conditions, the challenges
and perseverance.
Research Environment
were students respondents from different year level (1, 2 and 3) of BSHM who were
chosen randomly to answer the survey questionnaire given by the researchers and 30
Research Instrument
Respondents
study.
Data Gathering Procedure
To gather the data, the researchers asked approved to the Campus
the data are gathered, has been tallied, tabulated, analysed and interpreted.
The following are the statistical treatment used in the data. Frequency was
undecided, agree, strongly disagree, disagree. Percentage was also used in the
data to express the proportion of the respondents from the sample of the total
population.
f x 100
P=
N
Where:
P = is percentage
100 = is constant
/ Average Weighted Mean. This was used in the determining the general
description of the given variables or factors. The formula in getting the average
Where;
demographic profile. Instead of each data point contributing equally to the final
mean, some data points contribute more ‘’weight‘’ than others. If all the weight
are equal then the weighted mean equals the arithmetic mean (the regular
“average” you’re use to). Weighted means are very common in statistic
5- Strongly Agree
4- Agree
3- Undecided
2- Disagree
1- Strongly Disagree
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Homesickness is the longing that defines true feelings that misses being home
that compete of a person’s limited time or could occur due to various strains
Work Study is a analysis of a specific job in an effort to find the most efficient