I do think the education plays a role in the types of jobs
people can get. However, my education level has never played into the types of
jobs I have had. My first summer jobs were working a basketball camp for a
couple weeks out of the year. This type of job didn’t have any special type of
requirements education wise. The only type of education that was needed was how
to play basketball and help the campers learn throughout the week how to better
their skills. I was treated as well as the other employees and everyone got
along which made it that much better. Everyone was also paid an equal salary
because we all did the same amount of work during the week.
My first official job was and still is cleaning the offices
of my Stepfathers company. This job didn’t have any special requirements
education wise either. I feel like for only working once a week that I am
treated as fairly as everyone else who works there all week long. I do think
that education level should determine the pay of the worker because for jobs
that require certain skills that you have to go to school for that it you
should have the upper hand in getting paid more than someone who didn’t go to
school at all. As far as respect goes, I don’t think that an education level
should reflect how you should be respected in a company. Everyone should be
treated with the same respect. It shouldn’t be different just because you went
to school or went straight to the work force out of high school.
An experience in my family that I can relate this to is my
mother. She is a secretary for an attorney who doesn’t always give her the same
respect as she shows him. He will say hurtful things to her for not knowing
exactly what he is talking about. It’s almost like he expects her to know what
he is talking about when she didn’t go to law school. When she is doing work
for him, if she is typing and he doesn’t think she is listening he will get mad
and say something about it when she is just trying to get her work done for
him. He has never shown the same respect for people that others show him. In a
way he makes her education level make her seem like she has no idea what she is
doing when she really does.
In a job atmosphere everyone should be treated with the same
respect as everyone else. Education shouldn’t play into how you treat another
employee. Education should reflect certain types of jobs because it is a harder
task than other jobs.
