Having a year off after graduation from school and entering a university is getting highly popular. In my opinion, this custom would certainly aid teenagers to reflect on their preferences of future prospects as well as broaden their outlook of different cultures and traditions but there would also some drawbacks.
There is little room for doubt that having a year off from school allows adolescents to spend this time by obtaining practical skills and experience. In other words, youngsters would have the ability to work as a junior employee for chosen companies where they wish to gain specific practical knowledge. A typical example for this would be when young people want to develop a clearer understanding of their abilities to perform particular tasks and responsibilities by working for a chosen company, as a junior developer or chef assistant. Furthermore, this time out of specific obligation youngsters are able to spend by traveling around the world in order to widen their perceptions about different cultures and customs. Hence, taking a year off after graduation from school would result in youngsters developing practical skills and learning specific features of other countries.
On the other hand there would be obvious disadvantages if a teenager choose to have a year off after finishing high-school. Firstly, there is a high risk that young people, by traveling around the world, might be involved in serious accidents. Indeed, if adolescents select to travel to low-income countries, which are widely recognized as countries with high rate of crime and state of upheaval, they could have faced a serious dangerous circumstances with locals which might be fatal to them. Secondly, those adolescents who chose to gain practical skills by working as an apprentice could change their mind about obtaining further education. Consequently, a number of young people who were employed as juniors could be succeeded in getting promotion and, therefore, earning an appropriate salary would encourage them to proceed with working rather than entering a university.
In conclusion, while taking a year off after finishing high-school and before going to university is advantageous for young people as they will be able to obtain useful skills and widen their outlook about other countries’ culture, this trends disadvantages should be also taken into consideration.
