CHOOSING A CAREER
- Let’s talk about your career. What would you like to do in future?
I think the sooner a person chooses his future profession the better. He can attend specialized classes to be well prepared for his entrance exams. Some people try to postpone making a decision. Fortunately, there are a lot of people I can turn to for advice and help. And of course I can talk over my ideas with family members and friends.
I made up my choice long ago and decided to become…
- Is there any kind of job you would never choose? Why?
Yes, it’s teaching. Because a teacher is a person who is learning as well as teaching all his life. He must know his work, his subject and his pupils. He must be deeply interested in what he teaches. He should also be patient, understanding and kind. Certainly it is very difficult to be a teacher, because sometimes pupils do not behave properly. And discipline at school should work hand in hand with freedom.
- What questions will you ask your future employer when applying for a job?
- What is my schedule? (How much should I work?)
- What should I do? (What is my duty?)
- What is the size of my salary?
- Give me some advice on what I need to think while choosing my future career?
When choosing a future career, we should consider different factors. In my opinion, satisfaction is one of the most important factors when you make your choice. A job should be interesting and socially important. You should also decide whether you want to work indoors or outdoors. Another important factor is social environment. The profession of parents often influences the future profession of their children.
- Some people think that it is necessary to speak a foreign language well to get a good job. Do you agree with them?
Learning a foreign language is a life necessity today. Nowadays plenty of people have a very strong desire to learn English as the language has become the international language of politics, science, trade and culture. A foreign language equips a person with a practical skill which adds to appreciation of other cultures, improves employment prospects and makes travel more rewarding. It goes without saying that it broadens one’s mind, widens one’s horizon, and shapes one’s intellectual fitness.
An ecologist and help people to prevent ecological crises protect nature and save life on the planet. I’m fond of reading, and books make me understand that the development of civilization was followed by man’s careless interference in nature. It resulted in the fastest-spreading disease of the 21st century-poisoning of the world’s land, air and water.
Every year industry all over the world pollutes atmosphere with about 1000 million tons of dust and other harmful substances. Cities suffer from smog.
Vast forests are cut down and burn in fire. As a result one kind of animals, plant or insect dies out for ever every 10 minutes.
That’s why I consider that my own duty is to find about what has been done in this direction and what can be done to save our beautiful planet.
A programmer. I’m good at computers. Many people continue careers of their parents or grandparents but it is not the case with me. My mother is a … . My dad is a … . But I don’t want to be neither a … nor a ….
My hobby is computer games and computer programming. I have a computer at home and can spend hours working at it.
I consider that the profession of programmer can give many opportunities. Computers are the most rapidly changing sphere of modern technology. We live in the age of information and I think that the future is just filled with computers.
So, after I finish school I want to enter the university and study computer science.
A sociologist. This is rather new profession in our country. And I think it is very interesting specialty. Sociologists are supposed to work with people, to render them real help in difficult situations.
Our country is going through a difficult period now. Economic restricting doesn’t lead everyone to success. There are social workers who have to relieve the burden off people’s shoulders and to help them to solve their problems.
I understand the difficulties of this profession. But I believe this specialty is really needed and hope that I can help a lot of people.
A journalist. I think it is an interesting and useful profession.
I like to watch TV, listen to the radio, read newspapers and magazines. I like everything which connected with mass media.
I admire this profession because journalists meet many people. They try to understand what is going on in the world, or the country, or the city and try to explain it to other people.