Personalized Business Card Holders: The Student's Alternative Wallet

Student Life Responsibilities

Almost a majority of us have experienced being students and for sure, we love receiving financial allowances from our parents or guardians. These allowances are what usually sustain our life in school, especially if you are living far away from your home and are living in a dormitory or boarding house. We need allowances to buy us food, pay our lodging, obtain a set of class readings, join some extra-curricular events, buy us books, pay some miscellaneous fees and lots, lots more. Apart from that, we also have some small important documents to keep as we go through our academic life. Important receipts, registration forms, tickets and stubs and other materials deemed necessary. All of these things deserve to be securely kept in a proper place.

Safekeeping Finances and Documents

Since we recognize the importance of keeping our finances and our small yet important documents securely, we buy wallets and other safekeeping products that are both light and convenient to carry. But have you considered using personalized business card holders?

Your Alternative Wallet

Apart from old-fashioned wallets and purses, personalized business card holders had surely crept its way to the lives of busy people, particularly of students. Who would not be attracted to the great convenience it provides to many people? Its versatility as a product is just unquestionable. Not only can you keep here your calling cards for easy reference when you meet a new acquaintance but it can also store your cash, credit cards, receipts and all other possible documents that we can possibly think of. Apart from these functions, one's attention will also be caught as he or she marvels at the various designs that makes personalized business card holders so very appealing. Indeed, you are storing items in style! Personalized business card holders can also be ideal gift items perfectly suited for almost every important occasion or event. Be it weddings, graduations, anniversary celebrations, dates, etc., students won't surely go wrong with personalized business card holders.

At Its Finest

There are sure lots of personalized business card holders available that are oozing with style and convenience. Fluster your classmates and friends as you flaunt your silver toned or gold plated personalized business card holders with all your bucks on it. Lacquer-colored, multi-toned, leather-made and stainless personalized business card holders are also very much available to match your growing tastes and preferences. Don't worry losing your allowance ever again as you securely store them inside funky novelty personalized business card holders that you definitely won't trade for anything else. There are also some personalized business card holders manufactured by the world's leading designer companies that will certainly bring out the great fashion buff on you. Apart from seeing your names engraved on your very own business card holder, you can further personalize it using your designs. This will help you as a student to establish your own identity to the product and firmly secure your ownership to them. Moreover, students will also enjoy the reasonable amount of space that a personalized business card holder can carry, and this fact alone makes it just fit to be the perfect partner for students to store their identification cards and many other vital items safely.

Area Businesses And Organizations Host 1,552 Philadelphia Schools’ Students For Shadowing Day

I have worked at one business or another, since I turned 16. I worked for both private and nonprofit businesses, for big corporations and small professional firms. I still remember the excitement, as well as the culture shock, of my very first job. Because of my own experience, I made both of my children get part-time jobs as soon as they turned 16. It was not for the money, though they enjoyed that aspect of working. It was for the experience of being a part of the workplace.

While our children are in school, they lead a totally different life than when they graduate and enter the workforce. Whether they enter after they graduate from one of the Philadelphia schools or after college graduation, the culture shock is there. Children, who have worked in non-neighborhood, part-time jobs during their adolescence, have an edge over those who have not. They have been exposed to the expectations that will be placed on them by an employer. They have experienced the “office politics” that even exist at a neighborhood McDonalds®. They not only know what to expect, but they have learned how to live up to those expectations.

The United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania teamed up with 165 other businesses and organizations in January to sponsor Shadowing Day for Philadelphia schools’ ninth graders. Over 1,552 students spent a workday with a mentor at his/her workplace, giving the Philadelphia schools’ students a first-hand experience of the “real world” workplace.

Each Philadelphia schools’ participant was paired with an employee from a host business or organization. The student literally shadowed their mentor for an entire workday to see what they actually do in their job, what expectations they must meet, the interrelationships within that particular workplace, and how the employee handles his workload, coworkers and supervisors. The experience reduces the future culture shock, when these Philadelphia schools’ students enter the workforce.

The United Way campaign for mentors of Philadelphia schools’ teens first began in 1990. They work year round to provide an adult mentor for every adolescent in the Philadelphia schools’ region who needs one. There are well over 100,000 Philadelphia schools’ students, who have the potential of experiencing teen pregnancy and/or violence, as well as so many who live in poverty. The United Way believes a positive adult role model now is more important than ever in the Philadelphia schools’ area. They currently provide mentors for nearly 5,000 youth annually, training hundreds of new mentors and program leaders each year.

Studies prove that youth with a positive, adult role model are more likely to:

• View their educational opportunities in a positive manner, seeking to learn and attend school;

• Have less behavior problems while in school; and

• More likely to see a college education as a possibility.

Alba Martinez, president and CEO of the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania, sees mentoring as “essential, because success in school is key to success in life” for these Philadelphia schools’ students.

This year’s shadowing day for the Philadelphia schools’ ninth graders was part of the celebration for the sixth annual National Mentoring Month, which raises awareness of the need and power of mentoring, recruits new mentors, enlists new businesses and organizations into the mentoring program, and recognizes current mentors for their positive impact on their community.