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A difference comes in between the workplace and school life. Generally, the school is meant to equip one with the knowledge that is required in the workplace. Mike Rose presents a contradictory explanation of how the knowledge obtained in the school is limited in the application at the workplace. The workplace has changed continuously to have new requirements that workers have been forced to learn new skills in the workplace (Rose, 83). Generally, the workplace has evolved to limit workers from applying their intelligence and instead come up with new skills in the workplace. Mike Rose creates a more practical in the article, “The Working Life of a Waitress” to show how a waitress is forced to adapt to the environment and the needs of the employers (Rose, 10). Generally, a waitress should have more than mental intelligence learned in school because the work further needs body skills to take care of the changing requirements.
The workplace has a way of keeping workers at their disposal without having to set limitations. The skills learned in the workplace are challenging and cannot be acquired with ease from another workplace. In the article “The Working Life of a Waitress,” Mike Rose presents the exemplary skills held by a waitress that keep her fit for her job. Therefore, a waitress will keep her job unless she decides to seek a similar job. The article “Black Hair” on the other side presents the narrator’s experience in the tire company. The severe conditions in the workplace appear to have changed the employees, but they keep coming back for more work (Soto, 296). Generally, Rose and Soto present the employees as being tied to their positions but the challenges they face as well as the skills they have learned to overcome the challenges.
Works Cited
Rose, Mike. “The working life of a waitress.” Mind, Culture, and Activity 8.1 (2001): 3-27.
Rose, Mike. Why school?: Reclaiming education for all of us. The New Press, 2014.
Soto, Gary. Black Hair. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985.