【2024-3-22 PT】《Money or Study》

Bunny：Hello, everyone. How has everyone been this past week? Last week I went to Quanzhou, where there was a custom called "hairpins", meaning that women wore colorful flowers on their heads, which looked very beautiful. In the local, there is such a saying: this life hair flowers, beautiful afterlife. Women of all ages wear flowers on their heads and skirts, showing the strength and beauty of women. In recent years, this custom has become well known to people all over the country. More and more people come to Quanzhou to experience the local culture. I am one of these tourists. I like to travel to different places, but to be honest, traveling is really a very expensive thing, I need to save money every time to save enough money, and then I can go to the place I want to play. Sometimes I wish I had a lot of money. But I also know that there are a lot of college students who choose to make money while studying, and I want to know what you think about this phenomenon. Do you want to make money, too?

Selena：Of course I do. I've been trying to make money since the college entrance exam. Maybe when people reach this age, they want to have comprehensive freedom. I hope I can have enough economic ability to support myself to do what I want to do. At that time, I tried many ways to make money, but it turned out that I was not financially savvy, and not only did I not make money, I even lost money. Since then, I have been much more cautious about making money, and will not blindly pursue money as I did when I graduated. For me, the ways to make money are still too few and too limited. Many ways to make money require a huge upfront investment, I do not have that much start-up capital, and I am also worried that my effort will not be proportional to the return. All in all, I will not focus on making money for the time being. If I have the chance in the future, I may work as a part-time tutor.

Ruby：I was thinking the same thing. In the past, I also thought about making some small money in the case that I have a spare capacity in school, and this money may be used as the starting capital for my future. But I found that it was too demanding on my time, and I didn't have enough free time and energy to do it. After careful consideration, I feel that the focus of my life should be on learning and improving myself, rather than making money. As for me, my family situation is quite good, I have enough economic ability to support me to concentrate on my study, and there is no need to worry so much about making money to support myself. There is a saying that "there is a golden house in the book". I believe that I will thank myself for my training today in the future. When I make more progress, I will have a better ability to earn more money.

Tyler：I don't agree with you. I think people should find ways to change their current situation. For many college students, the family's living expenses do not have so much balance to support themselves to do more and more free things. For these students, finding ways to go part-time is indeed a good choice. In my opinion, this incident has not affected my own improvement. Do some part-time jobs when you have the spare time to enrich yourself. As far as I know. Nowadays, many college students are still wasting their time. Most of their spare time is spent sleeping or playing mobile phones. Since this is the case, it is better to do some part-time jobs within the scope of ability to get not only economic remuneration, but more spiritual enrichment and wealth. These experiences are others do not have, people should exercise themselves.

Bunny：I think what you're saying makes sense. But I have another question. If you found a way to make money while you were in college, would you choose to stay in school or focus on making money?

Ruby：I will choose to continue reading. The benefit of a period of time is only temporary, it is more important for me to constantly improve myself, learning is lifelong, what I learn will be beneficial to my whole life. When I become better, I will have more strength to fight for a better life for myself.

Selena：Me too, I will also choose to continue studying. Maybe I've been screwed before, so I'm a little more cautious. A period of gains doesn't mean anything, and this way of making money won't work forever. And the knowledge I learned in college is very valuable. I can be an opportunity to make money, but I can't give up enriching my mind and improving my ability.

Tyler：right. What is more important for students is campus life. There are many opportunities in college. I don't think we should be blinded by momentary interests. It is good to have the opportunity to make money, but we should not give up studying and improving ourselves because of it. A period of time there is a period of opportunity, people are constantly growing, we must learn to invest in ourselves, when we become stronger and better, there will be more opportunities to make money, life will be more friendly to us.