Studying While Working Essay

Recently, most people in Malaysia have chosen to study while working. It is because education makes someone to get better job and higher salary. Almost all universities in Malaysia provide part time study either during weekend or at night during weekdays. For example, University Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) has programme to give opportunities to society to continue their studies in a few interested field, such as in business, engineering or architecture. The programme was called UTM SPACE, which is School of Professional and Continuing Education programme. It is one of the Malaysia’s leading long-life learning education and well known. However, we should realize, studying while working not only give good impact to the workers, it can also have

It is because we have multiple tasks to complete when start studying while working. For example, we work as accountant in our company and in peak season, we should complete our task based on period that given by our boss. Because of that, we need to take extra time working or overtime to complete our task. In same time, we should continue our study and attend the class as scheduled. It will make our life be messy without strategic routine planning. Furthermore, it also will produce inefficiency work and bad results in our performance if we cannot handle it properly. In our study also, we do not have time to do revision personally at home. Sometimes we will absent the lecture because of job outstations or attending work conference in outside area. In concern, limitations of time make us not being able to spend time with family and be involved in communities’ activities in our accommodation

It can be more challenging to keep track of the entire project in office while also digesting deepest of readings and completing assignment for several different courses at university. The disadvantages of studying while working detected when our focus to both of studies and working will directly disturbed. It is because; we will give less of focus during learning sessions when we feel fatigue for working. It also occurred in workplace when we stay up for a few nights to finish our assignment of studies and feel sleepy on next day during working time. Moreover, if we are in hectic week, it is not easy to give full attention with one task to complete it. For example, the boss give tasks to present new project in front of our new client for attract them to collaborate with us, while we need do some revision for final examination in our studies in same week. It will cause our mind be unstable and our focus disturbed