When should a person start working?

Life begins with birth, then infancy, childhood, adolescence or young womanhood, youth, adulthood, even middle age, old age, old age, and then some old age and passing into eternity. Because there are physiological differences between men and women, the turning ages of these life stages may differ slightly, but for all of us, life is more or less made up of these stages.

But have you ever thought about when to start and when to stop working professionally?

I am not talking about the order we are used to now, forget how we do it today, I am asking how you think it should be.

For example, the age of 18 is now legally the age of leaving childhood. Normally, many people start working after the age of 18. Do you think 18 is an appropriate age to start working? Or should it be an earlier age? Or is 18 too early, should it be a later age, like 21?

Actually, after those first years in our family, when we reach a certain age, we start to communicate with the outside world. Even our school years, aside from our family, are the part of our life that is reserved for our upbringing. In other words, part of infancy and childhood is spent with our family and the rest of our childhood is spent with our family and schools without working. 

Maybe you work somewhere in the summer like me, or if you are in a village, for example, you will definitely do something as a child. Maybe some of you herd heifers. 

Still, many of them don't earn any money until they are at least 18 years old. Even if they are studying at university, for example, there are many who study with the money they receive from their parents. Imagine a person who does not have any work experience until the age of 21-22, unaware of real life, and if there are men who wait a year for military service and then start working after military service, spending all these years without doing anything useful (here I use useful in the sense of earning money!)!

In fact, let's exaggerate a bit more, let's say that after the military service, he/she cannot find a job and spends a year or two like that.

Now, do you think that such a person will be successful enough in business life, no matter which university he/she graduated from? He/she has reached the age of 24-25 with almost no experience and has finally landed a job.

Let's look at the opposite. Let's not call him a primary school dropout, let's call him a secondary school dropout. Let's say he started working as an apprentice in a repair shop at a young age. Yes, if his master is good, he will be a good master one day. But he will not be able to live his childhood. He will not have completed his education due to his environment and working environment. Therefore, he will have a completely different world view.

I can hear some people saying what is the need for education, he has a profession, his master will train him. 

By the way, I love Cem Karaca's song "The Mechanic's Apprentice". I remember him with respect. May he rest in peace.

The situation of our young girls differs a lot from family to family. Although they are more advantageous than men in terms of age to work, the situation is quite dire in terms of working opportunities. Another problem is that those who are employed are not the first choice of employers due to lower wages and the obligation to take maternity leave. Moreover, there are many women who get married at a very young age and have children at an early age. Therefore, there are many women who end their working life before it starts, that is, those who are dependent on their husbands because they do not have economic freedom.

Okay, we get it, not starting to work until late in life is bad, but so is starting to work at a very early age. It is also bad for girls not to go to school, and it is also bad for girls to go to school and get married at an early age and not be able to start working. It is also bad for women to discriminate against men in the workforce, in other words, all these contradictions are bad.

But many people finish school in a standard way and start working in a normal way. Is there anything wrong with that?

It depends on your point of view. Do you have an answer to the question I asked at the beginning? 

Let me remind you the question: When should a person start working? 

According to the answer to this question, we can decide whether the working situation, which we call the standard, is good or bad.

I think our education system is completely wrong. I don't mean that in the way everyone says it. 

Education is a must! This education system must change! These are clichéd words of objection.

What I am saying is that there is something wrong starting from childhood, from the family. We cannot instill a sense of responsibility in our children. Because we don't have that feeling ourselves. 

Okay, I'm not saying that we should commit harakiri like the Japanese when we do something wrong, but I'm saying that as a society we should feel more responsible for what we do. I'm saying that we should be aware that we have to pay for the mistakes we make.

If one day we can evolve into such a society, then we will realize that we need to instill a sense of responsibility in our children at an early age.

So should only the family do something about it? Shouldn't the state have something to do about it?

You may have heard that the Finnish education system is one of the most successful in the world. 

This education system is not just a school education system. In Finland, children also start working at a young age. They both study and practice what they learn at school by working somewhere at set times during the day. In the summer they also work somewhere.

This order has been established by the state. But not by state force, families are also used to this system. Because their fathers and grandfathers also received education according to this system.

In such a system, it no longer matters who starts working at an early age and who continues their education in a different field at university. 

When professional life begins, the individual is completely ready for working life. They are already used to working.

I think that's enough for today, think about it, when should one really start working?

One day in the future, let's talk about deciding when to retire.

For now, love and respect to everyone from Moscow