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| Should University Students Go in for Business? |
While university students doing business was generally disapproved of only a few years ago, these days they seem to receive more understanding and support than rebuke. Many argue that their business experience may help them better adapt to life after graduation. However, in my opinion, for university students, going in for business produces more harm than benefit.
Whatever reasons may list to show that doing business is good for students, there is no denying that doing business is very, very time-consuming. Take running a shop for example, as I happen to have a close relative who is the owner of a drugstore, I know perfectly well that it practically calls for sun-up to sun-down care to run a small shop at a profit. If students spend all their time on looking after their business, what about their academic work?
To run a business, one needs not only time, but money as well. In China, as most university students are financially dependent on their parents, they cannot but rely on their parents to provide them with the means to start a business with. If they suffer a loss, it is again their parents who will be on the wrong end of it. Or course, as alternative, students may turn to their friends and acquaintances for help. But if they get into debt, it is again no one but their parents who will have to come to their rescuer. In short, by going for Business University students are in effect asking, rather unfairly, their parents to take financial risk.
Furthermore, university students doing business may be wasting a crucial passage of their life, and will later suffer the consequences. True, one of is never too old to learn. Yet the best time for leaning is your four years in college. If you fail to make good use of those years, you will have to make twice or thrice as much as effort to make up for the lost time. if one want to do business, it is of course important to start early, yet an early start will not be a good start unless you are well-equipped, not only with money and social skills, but with knowledge as well.