Getting a job has functions, and features of a symbol, myth, and
ritual. In the United States, most of teenagers get a part-time job in high
school. After they graduate high school, or college, they get a full time job.
It is difficult for them to get a job because there are a lot of competitions. They write own cover letter, or resume showing themselves. During university, they do the internship, and volunteers. It helps them to get a job greatly. The first pay check has big meaning and symbolic meaning. It indicates they can earn money themselves. Most of them take a picture of their first pay check because it is evidence of the productive member of the society. Most of people go to the workshop when they find a job. Then they hear the story which is about jobs like how to relate the economy. Also, they hear the story from people who experienced it. It is truth, and concrete story; therefore, they refer to that story. Consequently, getting a job has a symbol, and myths.
A rite of passage will happen after they graduate high school. At that time, they separate from school (it may separate from family too), and they will learn jobs to get it. Their idea and feeling may change. When they get a job, they have to introduce a new place, and people, but everybody will not occur at the same age. In addition, from the article “Get a job, and that’s not so easy”, the teenager employment’s rate is not high, so it depends on the person when he/she gets a job. The process of the getting jobs is different in each person. It doesn’t have a special order. When they find a job, they can feel a sense of liminality and communitas among people who also find a job. However, getting ajob doesn’t have schema, strict order, and symbolic activities, so getting a job is a ritualization.
Bibliography
Avery Billings
Get a job, and That’s Not So Easy
http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2012-12-06/youth-issues/coming-of-age-in-ar-get-a-job-and-thats-not-so-easy/a29628-1
The Importance of Male Rites of Passage
http://www.artofmanliness.com/2008/11/09/coming-of-age-the-importance-of-male-rites-of-passage/
ritual. In the United States, most of teenagers get a part-time job in high
school. After they graduate high school, or college, they get a full time job.
It is difficult for them to get a job because there are a lot of competitions. They write own cover letter, or resume showing themselves. During university, they do the internship, and volunteers. It helps them to get a job greatly. The first pay check has big meaning and symbolic meaning. It indicates they can earn money themselves. Most of them take a picture of their first pay check because it is evidence of the productive member of the society. Most of people go to the workshop when they find a job. Then they hear the story which is about jobs like how to relate the economy. Also, they hear the story from people who experienced it. It is truth, and concrete story; therefore, they refer to that story. Consequently, getting a job has a symbol, and myths.
A rite of passage will happen after they graduate high school. At that time, they separate from school (it may separate from family too), and they will learn jobs to get it. Their idea and feeling may change. When they get a job, they have to introduce a new place, and people, but everybody will not occur at the same age. In addition, from the article “Get a job, and that’s not so easy”, the teenager employment’s rate is not high, so it depends on the person when he/she gets a job. The process of the getting jobs is different in each person. It doesn’t have a special order. When they find a job, they can feel a sense of liminality and communitas among people who also find a job. However, getting ajob doesn’t have schema, strict order, and symbolic activities, so getting a job is a ritualization.
Bibliography
Avery Billings
Get a job, and That’s Not So Easy
http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2012-12-06/youth-issues/coming-of-age-in-ar-get-a-job-and-thats-not-so-easy/a29628-1
The Importance of Male Rites of Passage
http://www.artofmanliness.com/2008/11/09/coming-of-age-the-importance-of-male-rites-of-passage/
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