Online Selling: Unfolding the Lifestyle of The Working Students

Abstract

The popularity of online purchasing is growing. There are still online buyers who refuse to buy online despite the availability of outstanding products, low costs, and simple checkout. This paper would unfold how working students, particularly in the online selling platform, would adjust, behave, respond, and foresee the challenges of being a laborer and a student. Qualitative phenomenology was used to determine the methods of the working students in overcoming their challenges and their initiative to cope with the demands of academic and work performance. Five (5) student online sellers aged between 15 to 24 years old residing in Tacurong City were the study’s participants. They were purposely chosen and interviewed via Google Meet. As revealed by the data gathered, there are a lot of significant changes in their routines, schedules, and time management. This was a major challenge.  They knew the importance of the purpose of their works, knowing that there were gaps so they had the initiative to overcome those said gaps. Bottommost, the participants are still in the process of how to achieve effective time management as it benefits being a good self-employed worker and a student. It is the reason why the students must overcome and be held as responsible as possible. In conclusion, the overall lifestyle of the working students in the online selling platform is the process of how they must manage time wisely, such as time management plans. Aside from motivation, there lies self-reflection, and consistency, especially in having effective time managing skills.