Jelgavas 4. vidusskolas Comenius programmas
projekts
„Mana personība un karjera multikulturālā
sabiedrībā”
līguma Nr.
2008-1-LV2-COM07-00040 1
Career in my life
At first I would like to think about my interests, after what I would like to do and
what useful I can do for society. On the one hand, I have a lot of things, witch I like –
sports, music, computer programming, cooking, but on the other hand to make my carrier
it’s necessary to develop other useful skills such as good working skills, good
relationships with other people, patiently, honesty and loyalty, kindness. I would like to
develop my talent skills.
As my favorite subjects are physics, chemistry and mathematics. Due to my
interests and good skills in these subjects I think I would be a good engineer constructor.
I want to connect my carrier with engineering. Engineers are very useful because new
progressive technology develops, work organization improves. People use automatic
machineries, new systems, technology processes in many industries. It’s necessary to
know, how to use new technique connected with new technology and work organization.
It’s important to use the best working methods in manufacturing to increase production
amount. Providing optimal service to our customers is a top priority.
As a global citizen, I also think, how to recognize the vital importance of
maintaining a responsible balance between the comfort we create today and the world we
live in tomorrow. Carrier is an industry leader in energy efficiency, dedicated to creating
environmentally sound products and solutions that fulfill our customers’ demands while
preserving our precious natural resources.
What can I do to be a good engineer constructor? I think that good character and
excellent knowledge about this profession are very important. I would like to graduate
secondary school successfully and after that to enter the Faculty of Engineering. Maybe it
would be the Latvian Agricultural University or one of the Highest Educational
Institutions in Riga.
I think that my career would be closed with making the world a better place to
live, work and play. I believe in the relentless pursuit of quality in everything I do.
Jānis Galiņš
Jelgavas 4. vidusskolas Comenius programmas
projekts
„Mana personība un karjera multikulturālā
sabiedrībā”
līguma Nr.
2008-1-LV2-COM07-00040 1
Essay
Career in my life
Career is a general progression of working or professional life, the sum total
of life experiences including education, paid and unpaid work. People change jobs
or get fired all the time, we can read about it in newspapers, watch on television,
hear on radio and see everywhere around us.
I think, now it is the right time consider possibilities and make decisions
concerning my future and next profession. I can think about it for hours. I think that
there is a lot more in our lives than just education, career and position in life. And
each of us is made up of many different things. However, we all live a certain
lifestyle which is directly related to our education, career and position in life.
Career planning is a tricky process because it may encourage a feeling of
control over person’s reactions to future events. In reality, people frequently do not
know what they want. Actually I do not know what I want, too. And this is the main
reason why I will try to find and make arguments for and against making career.
I know that money is one of main things in career not only in my life, but it is
important for most people. It is not wrong to be motivated by money, but it may not
be right to be motivated just by money.
There are some bad things of making career: too much responsibility, no free
time for friends and family, stress which can cause depression. I see that career
planning becomes painful precisely because so much is at stake and it is such an
important decision that will influence the rest of our lives.
I do not know exactly what kind of career I would like to make. In my opinion,
the main thing is that I am happy with what I do and I strive to be the best at what I
do. However, life is too short to keep working on something I do not like that is way
I will try to keep my hobby and develop my career at the same time, because I want
not only a career, but private life too.
Alvīne Labanovska 11.a
Jelgavas 4. vidusskolas Comenius programmas
projekts
„Mana personība un karjera multikulturālā
sabiedrībā”
līguma Nr.
2008-1-LV2-COM07-00040 1
Career in my life
Every child in his childhood is thinking about his dream profession, so did I. I
changed my mind thousand times because there were so many things I wanted to do. I
wanted to be a doctor, a scientist, an archaeologist and even a designer. These are
completely different professions but they all have something in common - in these
professions, you can develop your career and reach the highest peaks, which is quite
important to me.
I already have working experience, because I have worked two summers as a
gardener. This was great experience and now I have new friends. These two summers
taught me many new things. First, I learned to have an attitude to work I was doing,
second - now I definitely know that I have to love the work I am doing, because this is
only way how not to fall in routine and how to develop. This experience didn’t come so
easy, because the job wasn’t easy too. To work in this profession person definitely needs
high physical skills and of course good knowledge in botany. At first, it wasn’t easy at all
and I had some difficulties but it was indescribable feeling when I got my first salary.
After some time I got used to work, I was doing and it become easier for me and I learned
many new things. I even got a small promotion, which was first promotion in my life and
my “career”. Now I can be thankful to this experience because I know that later, as soon
as I will start my career, I will have to choose profession with the highest possibility to
develop in.
I know that the basic of great career is good knowledge. Of course, that my career
will be as successful as I will create it, and to do it as good as I can, I will need good
basic - knowledge. Also I know that good career needs different skills, not only good
knowledge. To create a good career, as I mentioned before, I have to love the work I will
do and I have to be interested in it to get success.
For me development of career is something self-evident. I think if I’m really into
my work, I will get success with no doubt and my career will develop. Of course, career
never will be the main thing in my life, but one of the most important definitely.
Laura Bubko 11.a
Jelgavas 4. vidusskolas Comenius programmas
projekts
„Mana personība un karjera multikulturālā
sabiedrībā”
līguma Nr.
2008-1-LV2-COM07-00040 1
Career in my life
Career in my life have most important place in my feature, because without
education you are nothing – you can’t earn good money and make comfortable feature, so
your life is unsuccessful. A career is mostly seen as a course of successive situations in
your individual work, for that reason you have to get a good education and do everything
what you can – right in this moment.
I still don’t know what I should really be, but I know no one is going to tell me that
because my education and career is only in my own hands. I have some ideas and my
dream but I definitely know I can’t realize my dream in one moment and now because
it’s huge and I have very hard to work to a little bit get closer it, but if I will be able to
utilize and set up my knowledge’s then some day my dream will come true. My ideas are
in different professions and that is why I can’t choose which one and correct because I'm
afraid it’s can’t be my life’s calling or what I see myself being. I won’t be unhappy about
my unfortunate career, for that reason I want be completely sure that is what I really want
to do. Maybe question is “What can I do right now?” I think I can do much more as
someone can imagine – I to do the best all my works, always try getting new
knowledge’s. Maybe you think it’s nothing special but you are wrong, if you don’t work
at first you ever be the same, because you can’t wake up and decide that today I’ll be
doctor and tomorrow president. You have to think about education and feature all the
time. I know I’ll do everything to get a good education, job and a successful career. For
that reason I believe one day I’ll understand what I am going to be and then I’ll never
stop because that will be who I am. I like feeling hungry for good change in my life but
if you want a successful career, you have to risk because without risk you can’t get a
good job. Of course at any job has difficulties but if you will be shy and unsure about
yourself, you never overcome difficulties.
Think carefully about your education and career because good profession can
provide for successful feature in your life.
Dace Blūma
Jelgavas 4. vidusskolas Comenius programmas
projekts
„Mana personība un karjera multikulturālā
sabiedrībā”
līguma Nr.
2008-1-LV2-COM07-00040 1
Essay
“The role of Career in Your life.”
Career is a term defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as an individual's
"course or progress through life ". It usually is considered to pertain to remunerative
work. A career is mostly seen as a course of successive situations that make up a person's
occupation. One can have a sporting career or a musical career without being a
professional athlete or musician, but most frequently "career" in the 20th century
referenced the series of jobs or positions by which one earned one's money.
One of the important factors why modern people choose their career is money.
Money – this is factor why people make their career. But also there are people who make
career because they like it and it is like a hobby. But this is another factor. They choose
this career way, because they want to live very good and think about how better they can
live. They don’t choose this job for their interests but only because this gives them an
opportunity to earn much more money.
The second factor is - this profession is like a hobby. People choose this career way
because they like this job. They can do it all time and do it for themselves and for fun.
These people have talent to do it very good and if another people like what they do then
they have a very good talent and they can get much money. This people are those who
have a sporting career, musical career and others.
I think the third factor why people choose to make a career because nowadays it is
very popular. In my opinion, people try to get the job that is profitable and necessary at
the moment and choose a very good profession and keep making their career.
However, there are some points why people don’t want to make a career.
One of the factors is stress. Peoples don’t like job that is stressful and exhausting. If they
have a stressful career I think these people won’t be very happy, but they are tired and
very reserved.
Moreover, people don’t like jobs that take all free time. Modern people
today don’t choose a career where they need to work very many hours a day. They better
choose a job where they can relax and have much more free time.
But, I think one of the important factors is that making career is dangerous for
life. A lot of people don’t choose career because they can be unhappy. As far as I’m
considered young people should think a lot about their future career. They should
think which career will be the best for them. People need career, where they can be
happy and work with joy.
Arturs Mengots 11.a
Jelgavas 4. vidusskolas Comenius programmas
projekts
„Mana personība un karjera multikulturālā
sabiedrībā”
līguma Nr.
2008-1-LV2-COM07-00040 1
Career of my life
Career takes a very important part of every human’s life. For now career doesn’t
take very important part of my life, because I’m still going to school, but my target is to
climb up on the stairs of career.
The first aim to me is to choose the best university to go to, because the quality of
university is a major aspect for getting a job. I haven’t yet chosen a university, that I
would like to join, but I hope, I will do it soon. Unfortunately the choice of university
isn’t the hardest part of developing a good career. First of all you have to study hard,
when you learn in Secondary school, so you could get in university for state’s money. If
you fail that you have to get good marks to even get in the university.
If I am able of getting in university and I’m certain of that, I will have to study hard
there. The studies in university are different and harder, than the studies in Secondary
school so I will have to study more than now. And I realize that without hard studying, I
won’t graduate University with good marks.
It’s not mandatory, but preferable to work while you study, so, I think, I will start
my career after Secondary school to get more experience. After graduating from
University, I will have experience to get a good job and start to build my career.
Developing career won’t be easy, but I’m up to this. I’m ready to take the challenge
of getting better job, greater experience so I could say: „My career went just right.”.
K.Būmanis 11a
Jelgavas 4. vidusskolas Comenius programmas
projekts
„Mana personība un karjera multikulturālā
sabiedrībā”
līguma Nr.
2008-1-LV2-COM07-00040 1
The Importance of Career in My Life
I think career is one of the most important in our lives: our work, financial status
and our family depend on it. Does the lack of education can fetch a gap in our lives? Will
all the diplomas and higher education always be in great demand ? We now choose a
profession, but if 4 years later, the profession is no longer required and this diploma is
nothing. What to do next?
I think, if I don`t have education but if my head works good and if I have a desire
to do something the lack of education won`t be an obstacle and I will get a good job
without a diploma and high education, because people who don’t learn or they just do it
bad have a principle of survival, which helps them to get a good job. Such people often
are the owners of large and competitive companies.
Presumably if now, in our economic situation, two people are applying for one
and the same job: one is a graduate of the university with the best marks, but another with
some experience and good feedback from other works, who will get a job? I think that the
second employee, because he has a working experience and the company won`t spend
money and time to educate him, and he can start working at once.
It is very important to look ahead and think what you can do in future, because
studying in a university in a very popular department, where 300 future specialists
already studying is almost a waste of time. After finishing the university the best labor
market will have been occupied and your diploma is no longer necessary.
In my view it doesn`t matter whether you are trained and highly educated or if
you haven`t learned anything, you find it easier to find a job if you have a working
experience in this field. Nowadays it’s impossible to find a job even for those who have
experience.
Ramona Ratke 11.a
Jelgavas 4. vidusskolas Comenius programmas
projekts
„Mana personība un karjera multikulturālā
sabiedrībā”
līguma Nr.
2008-1-LV2-COM07-00040 1
Career in my life
Now I’m learning at 11 grades and I have some time think about my career in
future. I think for everybody is important their careers. My friends, for example, are
planning to make great careers in construction, design und media, but I prefer business,
law or history. In my life, my future career is important even now, because without good
education I can’t work in well paid job. My first variety of career, as I mentioned, is
business. I have always thought that I’ll have my own small company or factory. It’s very
exciting when I think about the economic part of my project. It’s like you can win or
loose all, especially in our big economic crisis. Then in second place is career in law. I
remember, when I was a small girl, I was watching TV serials about people, who are
employed in law instances. It seems interesting to protect somebody as lawyer do it, but
in other side there is judge who’s trying to protect good people from murderers, robbers
and other criminals. Like last variety I can choose career in history. History is interesting
subject in school now for me. Knowing how past events influence our live nowadays it is
fascinating and spectacular. Like every child influences from their parents to their future
job, I have influenced too. Even now I understand that learning is important, so now I
choose to learn languages, math and history, because it’s base knowledge to everyone.
No one can take my knowledge. So just learn and you will get a good job!
Kristine Ikauniece 11.a
Jelgavas 4. vidusskolas Comenius programmas
projekts
„Mana personība un karjera multikulturālā
sabiedrībā”
līguma Nr.
2008-1-LV2-COM07-00040 1
Essay.
The role of career in my life.
Career is the general progression of your professional life. Being modern people we
have a tendency to develop ourselves both mentally and physically. So naturally we want
to do the same thing in our career. We simply have to get smarter, faster and more skilled
as the time goes by. It is in our competitive nature.
Career needs to be made not only because we like to please ourselves but it also is a
very important stage of life. Mostly to earn money because we can’t live without the
green paper that makes people happy. Bills do need to be paid. Of course it is not always
about making a living. Sometimes people just like what they do. They get thrilled by the
process alone or they are satisfied with doing good deeds. It also can be a family business
that simply needs to be taken care of.
But life and career is not always that simple and sweet. Let’s not forget stress and
responsibility. It takes grate part in working industry. There are also things like no free
time, no personal life, worrying about possibility of being fired and a grate chance of
becoming a workaholic. If you really think about it, then before the career you need to
decide were to make that career.
In my personal opinion career is a total headache. I mean, how can one person can
be certain about a life judgment? There are so many possibilities about what will you do
and there are so many possibilities that everything will go wrong. For example, if I feel
like I should make my carrier in the sports industry and then break both of my legs.
Knowing how clumsy and unfortunate I am, that really is a possibility (breaking my legs,
not making carrier in the sport industry). Or how about death? Who says I am not going
to get in a car accident and die from injuries. Then all plans and work you made for
unknown and probably horrible future will go to pot.
But I am just a very paranoid girl. So basically career in my life is this hysterical
crying and/or giggling for my grate embarrassment. I am very positive that it is not like
that for other people.
Anete Jasmane 11.a
Jelgavas 4. vidusskolas Comenius programmas
projekts
„Mana personība un karjera multikulturālā
sabiedrībā”
līguma Nr.
2008-1-LV2-COM07-00040 1
The positive and negative side of career
I think that career takes the biggest role in our lifes, at least for people who want to
achiewe something important not just for working, not just for money, but also for
themselves. I can imagine this tempting taste of growing successful career. Here borns
feeling- hey, my life isn’t useless, my life isn’t empty. But we mustn’t forget one factwhere’s career, there’s a hard work- physical and emotional.
I’ll start with positive side of career. Like I said, if you have career, you have aim
which brings in your lifetime strick order. Career makes you find your interests, skills to
make important decision after studies and choose profession.
It’s the spellbound circle: career brings you job, job brings you money, money will
take care about your neverending demands. I must say that career is just a part of
consumer society. As we all know about values of our society with it’s modern progress,
than I’ts difficult for me to see here compromise. Career is with giant positive side and
with microscopic shade. In my opinion if you have career, you can live like you want, but
if you don’t , you’ll have to live like you can.
If I hadn’t career, I wouldn’t live in big city where money makes rules. I would live
somewhere in silent island, my life would be spontaneous, a little bit with chaos. No
society, no rules, no career! And if we are talking about this negative side of career, than
it’s one of those society rules- you’ll live like they want you to live. That’s all.
For my last words I want to say. Career is a big challenge. Take it!
Vita Meškauska
Jelgavas 4. vidusskolas Comenius programmas
projekts
„Mana personība un karjera multikulturālā
sabiedrībā”
līguma Nr.
2008-1-LV2-COM07-00040 1
Annija Cigelniece
Career in my life
Looking up the definition for career I found out that Career is a term defined by the
Oxford English Dictionary as an individual's "course or progress through life". It usually
is considered to pertain to remunerative work. A career is mostly seen as a course of
successive situations that make up a person's occupation. One can have a sporting career
or a musical career without being a professional athlete or musician, but most frequently
"career" in the 20th century referenced the series of jobs or positions by which one earned
one's money.
If you work our study hard it is good for your future life. You will definitely make
more money than just working the same job every day and as we all know you are
nothing in these days without a proper education, you can’t even have a regular job with
out a high school diploma. It is definitely fun, because career means to learn something
new every day. No one wants to have an idiot working in their company. Career is
helpful and fun at the same time.
One factory is - this profession is like a hobby. People choose this career way
because they like this job. They can do it all time and do it for themselves and for fun.
These people have talent to do it very good and if another people like what they do then
they have a very good talent and they can get much money. This people are those who
have a sporting career, musical career and others.
I think one of reasons why people choose to make a career because nowadays it is
very popular. In my opinion, people try to get the job that is profitable and necessary at
the moment and choose a very good profession and keep making their career.
People don’t like jobs that take all free time. Modern people today don’t choose a
career where they need to work very many hours a day. They better choose a job where
they can relax and have much more free time. Peoples don’t like job that is stressful and
exhausting. If they have a stressful career I think these people won’t be very happy, but
they are tired and very reserved.
A lot of people don’t choose career because they can be unhappy. As far as I’m
considered young people should think a lot about their future career. They should think
which career will be the best for them. People need career, where they can be happy and
work with joy.
Jelgavas 4. vidusskolas Comenius programmas
projekts
„Mana personība un karjera multikulturālā
sabiedrībā”
līguma Nr.
2008-1-LV2-COM07-00040 1
Career in my life
Nowadays very important thing in all people lives is career. On a career we build
our plans on future. If we have a plan how to build career we have a plan for our life.
Today we have very big factor for building a career. Crisis is everywhere and in all
of us. People have no money for building a career. As we know the money is very
important thing for career and for building it. I have problems no bigger than other
because crisis takes money for things like food, communal, health and other important
things. I wanted to invest it for education but it doesn’t work.
I am studying because it is very important for me. If I do not study than crisis will
stay in my life forever. I will be poor when other people who are studying will have a
good job and will get a good salary.
Career in my life is very important because if it were not so I would be
unsuccessful and unhappy human with no plans for future.
Juta Ceicāne
Jelgavas 4. vidusskolas Comenius programmas
projekts
„Mana personība un karjera multikulturālā
sabiedrībā”
līguma Nr.
2008-1-LV2-COM07-00040 1
Career in my life
Career is a term defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as an individual's
"course or progress through life ". It usually is considered to pertain to remunerative
work. A career is mostly seen as a course of successful situations that make up a person's
occupation. One can have a sporting career or a musical career without being a
professional athlete or musician, but most frequently "career" in the 20th century
referenced the series of jobs or positions by which one earned one's money.
I think that career is one of the most important things in life, because today you
can’t get well paid work without education. Because of economical crisis all good and
high pay work places will be very few, and that’s why there is very big selection on
good job places. I think that I’ll have better expectations, if I will have better education,
maybe I can get better job.
Money is one of the important factor in life, because without money people can get
good education and they don’t have well living conditions.
I don’t know what I’ll do in future, but I exactly know two things. I will get good
education and I will care about myself, because I need to make my own family, and for
that I need to become independent.
Today I think of profession I want. I don’t know exactly, but I have some ideas. My
family says that I should learn very well if I want to study my chosen professions.
I think that if I have possibility to study in one of the best universities in the world
like an Oxford, Yale, Harvard I will use this possibility, because these universities have
one of the best education levels in world. I’ll think that if I have credentials from this
kind of universities I will be able to get better job in comparison with people who has
studied in Latvian Universities. I know that it is very hard, but if I do this on my own I
will get a new experience and knowledge, and it will become about one of the relevant
things in my life, because after graduating one of universities who have highest levels in
education I will prove to myself and others that I can reach my targets.
Education is very important in my life, because it’s the first step to the
independence and your own life.
Aija Ceple
Jelgavas 4. vidusskolas Comenius programmas
projekts
„Mana personība un karjera multikulturālā
sabiedrībā”
līguma Nr.
2008-1-LV2-COM07-00040 1
Essay
Career
I will graduate from secondary school soon and I will get my secondary education.
It is very important to me because it is first step in the adult’s world. I think secondary
school is necessary for everyone. The person who has secondary school education have
already bases of knowledge and studies in university is more easily.
My future contingents on my choice – what university I will choose and what I will
study. I think everyone needs at least one profession in his life. So in the world there are
very many different professions: you can work with people as a doctor, a lawyer, a
receptionist, a teacher, etc.; on the enterprise, bank, school, state institution. What kind of
a profession you choose is mainly depend on yourself. And I think it’s very difficult task
for everyone.
Definition of the word “career” is “course or progress through life”. Career is very
important in human life. A career is the sum total of paid and unpaid work, learning and
life roles you undertake throughout your life. The term “career” was traditionally
associated with paid employment and referred to a single occupation. In today's world of
work the term “career” is seen as a continuous process of learning and development.
When we choose a future career, we should consider different factors. In my
opinion, the relevance of the profession, money and interesting job are the most
important things that will influence my decision.
From the childhood we’re thinking about our future profession. What I want to be
when I grow up? I have heard this question for many times, but even now I can’t give a
definite answer. I have about one year to think and to decide finally what I will do in the
future. To finish school means for me to begin a new independent life.
Kārlis Bolmanis 11.a
Jelgavas 4. vidusskolas Comenius programmas
projekts
„Mana personība un karjera multikulturālā
sabiedrībā”
līguma Nr.
2008-1-LV2-COM07-00040 1
Laura Paulauska 11.a
Essay
„Career”
I think that career is very important to have a good life. Every child dreams about
what they want to be in future. That of course is great but they don’t know what they will
have to do if they want to have exactly that career.
Everything starts with learning in kindergarten, after that school and thinking about
what you want to be in future then learn in university. Then you can start your career.
Only one thing – you must know that job career isn’t the main in your life. You have to
make a family and live your life exactly how you want. I’m already in high school but
still don’t know what I want to be when I become adult. That’s really bad, because till
high school you should decide what you want to be and then learn more those things you
will have to know to make your career. When you want to decide which career make,
serious thing about money what you will earn maybe you won’t survive with so little
salary. Money is very important to live normal and have anything you want.
Before you choose which career make serious think about that- do you really want
to do exactly that thing? And don’t give up but fight for your dream and life you want to
live!
Jelgavas 4. vidusskolas Comenius programmas
projekts
„Mana personība un karjera multikulturālā
sabiedrībā”
līguma Nr.
2008-1-LV2-COM07-00040 1
Essay
Career
Career is very important part of our life. Everybody thinks and dreams about that
when they are only kids and wants to make career as early as possible and as good as they
want. I think, everybody choose career because it is popular nowadays. People try to get
the job that is profitable and necessary at the moment and choose a very good profession
and keep making their career. There are many reasons how we choose career.
People need to choose profession they like and I think, it is the most important
reason, how we need to choose profession. If you choose profession which you don’t
like, you will feel unhappy. It is very bad, if you wake up in the morning and you think
that you need to go work, where you don’t like.
Next reason, we choose profession is money. Money is reason why we choose to
make career. Earn a little bit money and work in job, which likes is better then earn much
money with job you don’t like. It is hard to live without money nowadays. If people don’t
have much money, they don’t live normally. Money is important thing to survive.
Next reason, why we should choose profession is time, how long we need to spent
at work. Everyone wants to live life for himself not for work. If work doesn’t take long
time, people have time for themselves, their families and normal relaxation.
Everyone wants to live great family life, feel happy, earn much money, drive
expensive car and live in a big house near the sea, enjoy long holidays, to be employer,
but not be employee and if everyone fill these three reasons together then he will get all
of it.
Armands Balodis 11.a
Jelgavas 4. vidusskolas Comenius programmas
projekts
„Mana personība un karjera multikulturālā
sabiedrībā”
līguma Nr.
2008-1-LV2-COM07-00040 1
Essay
The role of career in my life
Job.. fame.. money.. goals.. In a word – career. It is a general progression of
working or professional life, the sum total of life experiences including education, paid
and unpaid work, and community, volunteer and family activities. Need to say, it is more
than only job, it entails everything we learn and work during our lifetime. People change
jobs or get retrenched all the time, we can read about it in newspapers, watch on
television, hear on radio and see everywhere around us. Are those just inexpressive
discussions or does career/ position in real life play a role? And what does career means
for me and for my life?
I am studying in secondary school now. Therefore, I think, that it is the right time to
choose and to guess rough ideas of my future and next (need to say – the first) profession.
It's no fun at 18 years old when people ask what you want to do. I can think about it for
hours and hours. I think there is a lot more to it than just education/career/position in life.
One meaning of vocation is career, a life-work chosen by a person to use personal talent,
provide some service or goods, earn money, and contribute to society. Each of us is made
up of many different things and lives a "certain" lifestyle which is directly related to our
education, career and position in life.
Our culture worships planning. Everything must be planned in advance. Our days,
weeks, years, our entire lives.. We have diaries, schedules, checklists, targets, goals,
aims, strategies, vision even. Career planning is the most insidious of these cults precisely
because it encourages a feeling of control over my (our) reactions to future events. In
reality, people frequently don't know what they want. Actually I don’t know what I want,
too. And this is the main reason why I will try to find and recite arguments for and
against making career.
I think that determinant factors and arguments for making career are money (of
course), promotion, secured old age with pension and good chances of communication
with others. Yes, that’s it – I know that money is one of main things in career not only in
my life, but it is important for most people. Is it wrong to be motivated by money? I
guess absolutely not, but it may not be right to be motivated by money alone. And it is
certainly not advisable to sacrifice what could be a lucrative career for something that is
more or less a dead-end job. Fame, money, „love” (to my job) - I may find all three, but it
is difficult to pursue all three at the same time.
There is a bad side of making career: over-great responsibility, no free time for
friends and family, stress which can cause depression. It’s not easy, because there are 3
steps to the career development process: self-assessment, career exploration and job
education search. I see that career planning becomes painful precisely because it's such an
important decision and we come to understand that we have only very limited useful
information.
What career will suit my personality? I don't know what kind of career I would be
best at. Personally, to me, it doesn't really matter if I am a butcher, a baker or a furniture
maker.. Honestly, sometimes I feel a little intimidated about all those bachelor degrees. In
my opinion, the main thing is that I am happy with what I do and I strive to be the best at
what I do. I live with a principle - when we are young, many opportunities knock at our
doors, and however life is too short to keep working on something I don’t like. Of course,
at the end of the day, I'll need to make the choice myself too, and then I will try to keep
my hobby and develop my career at the same time, because I want not only a career, but
also private life! And I think that this purpose (if you understand what I want to say with
it) is preeminent argument for making right career.
Anete Krastiņa
Jelgavas 4. vidusskolas Comenius programmas
projekts
„Mana personība un karjera multikulturālā
sabiedrībā”
līguma Nr.
2008-1-LV2-COM07-00040 1
Essay.
The Role of Career in Your Life
When I started to write this essay, first of all I tried to understand, what is career
and what it means to every person. And one of the best thoughts I found that career – it is
a goal in life that is fulfilled through a job or series of job. I think that it’s a pretty
accurate definition of a term “career”.
I think that nowadays career makes a very big part of people life. I’m not sure
that it has been like that earlier, but nowadays people work truly hard. They take first
steps of making career already in high-school, when they get knowledge about what they
are interested in. And after that it takes long years to make the way to the top of career.
For me, in future, career will take pretty big part of my life, because without
material provision it’s hard to live a wholesome and joyful life. Of course, I’ll never put
career in the first place, but in the same time it will be important to me. In the first place
it will always be family, of course.
The meaning of “career” is different for every person. But in the end, everyone
has career he has been making throughout the years. Only the ways to do that have been
different and also the result is different.
But when is the end of a person’s career? Probably, “retirement” is the best
answer for that. It is the time when a person starts getting old and can’t find enough
energy for job.
Yes, there are some bad sides for career too. For example, career takes a lot of free
time; working too much can turn person into a workoholic and so on. But it shouldn’t
happen if a person has family and friends and some other interests in life.
In the end, I think that making career is a good thing, because it gives opportunity
to be a highly-paid worker and live a joyful life, and maybe even give some favours to
other people
Jānis Riekstiņš, 11.a
Jelgavas 4. vidusskolas Comenius programmas
projekts
„Mana personība un karjera multikulturālā
sabiedrībā”
līguma Nr.
2008-1-LV2-COM07-00040 1
Career
Looking up the definition for career I found out that Career is a term defined by the
Oxford English Dictionary as an individual's "course or progress through life (or a
distinct portion of life)". It usually is considered to pertain to remunerative work (and
sometimes also formal education).
So basically career is a man’s evolution in life or work. After this definition it will be
very hard for me to find arguments that career is bad for a person, but I will try.
The first bad thing making a career is a lack of free time. Making a career you always
have to learn something new to develop your skills. No hanging out whit your friends and
having a good time, just work and learn, work and learn.
Then there’s the stress. Working all the time makes a person kind a nervous and that is
bad for your health. If you work without a need to develop you have nothing to worry
about.
When you make a career in one particular way, you may end up loosing your interest for
the job.
Now about the good and positive things in making a career.
If you work our study hard it is good for your future life. You will definitely make more
money than just working the same job every day and as we all know you are nothing in
these day’s without a proper education, you can’t even have a regular job without a high
school diploma.
It is definitely fun, because career means to learn something new every day. No one
wants to have an idiot working in their company. Career is helpful and fun at the same
time.
The last thing is that a career, I think, is the natural way of a human. If we look in our
history we see many amazing moments and nothing of that would have been possible if
all those hard working men and women would not have wanted to develop, to have
something better in their life. As they say from nothing comes nothing.
In the end it is crystal clear for me, as it was in the beginning of this work, that career is
the key for success in life.
Ronalds Joels
Jelgavas 4. vidusskolas Comenius programmas
projekts
„Mana personība un karjera multikulturālā
sabiedrībā”
līguma Nr.
2008-1-LV2-COM07-00040 1
Essay
The Role of Career in My Life
"Find a job you love and you'll never work a day
in your life.” – Confucius
Never knew, where I will go in my life, or never wanted to know. But the time
comes, to stand by yourself. I’m getting ready of becoming someone. I hope this essay
will help me understand who I could become and why should I select it.
Break-dance, photographing, drawing and music engineering is my stuff, they build
character, but aren’t useful forming a good, stable life. I respect my hobbies, and I am not
going to dump them in the near future. I’m really forward of looking a job that I really
like, but first come education. I’m not really sure of continuing my education to a higher
level after middle school. Thinking of setting up a “moment job” for starters, like a
driver/courier or a job in a restaurant. Then, I’m pretty sure I will join an army school and
be added in the reserve’s. I would enjoy the opportunity to serve and really like the idea
of training my self to the limits, and learn to use arms and weapons, learn to defend my
self and others.
I’m really into music. After the school I could dig around and see if there’s a
possibility of working in a music production studio or a disk jokey in a radio studio.
Podcasting music really could give me pleasure and opportunity becoming popular and
meet celebrities. It pays back, and gives plenty of free time.
Usually, everything could change, and there would be no chances of realizing these
plans. But still, I will make my future as better then I can, and try to enjoy of what I will
become.
Edgars Kalniņš
Jelgavas 4. vidusskolas Comenius programmas
projekts
„Mana personība un karjera multikulturālā
sabiedrībā”
līguma Nr.
2008-1-LV2-COM07-00040 1
Career in my life
When I was a little girl, I with my sister played games, what we become when we
grow up. What to achieve in life and how to realize it. Around us were the samples people who have everything they wanted, and are what they wanted to be. All the things
they had, was achieved by working so hard, because nobody does something in their
place. We could see people who didn’t have and need more than alcohol. It was hard to
looking at some who are nothing and don’t need more than alcohol. They don’t live, but
only exist.
Even now with me there are people who are happy and make me feel happy. They
are successful, because they are satisfied with life. Maybe they are that, what they
dreamed to be in childhood. I know that it wasn’t easy to get all that they have now.
I am studying in secondary school, and know that now I should think more
seriously on my career. Career choice is never easy. The main issues are preferences, and
where the opportunities are. A career has to be seen as more than just a job, or series of
jobs. It's a personal calling, a way of life, and a matter of deep commitment. And, I do
believe that all of us have a purpose on earth and that if we stay open, follow our instincts
and take advantage of opportunities in our environment, we eventually arrive at the
profession we are meant doing.
All my life I am thinking that I want to be a veterinarian because I want help
animals. I like the feeling when, I have saved an animal's life, or simply helped when it
was necessary. I know that, in order to become a veterinarian, i should start with great
grades in secondary school. It takes years of study and lots of memorizing facts so
generally, to qualify will need to be pretty brainy to get a head start. Naturally a love for
animals helps - after all, when will be looking after them all life. There are other things
that selectors will look at previous experience with animals, background situations but
there usually is a requirement for good grades in subjects like biology and science.
Becoming a veterinarian takes incredible dedication, and a large investment of time.
It is very hard to choose profession and very important to choose the right one,
because, it is most important to do job that make us happy. It is difficult to work every
day the same, what don’t give good feeling.
I will always say, that people will be truly happy, when they do, what they love to
do. And I hope some day, when I will make my decision what I want to be in future, i
will choose the right. If I do what I am not satisfied with i will not be happy, but i want to
be happy and live the life I like and I choose. I want be a positive sample for some little
children who only dream about their future profession and life will be after several years.
I really want to make the right choose...
Rūta Ekmane
Essay
The role of career in my life
Job.. fame.. money.. goals.. In a word – career. It is general progression of working
or professional life, the sum total of life experiences including education, paid and unpaid
work, and community, volunteer and family activities. Need to say, it is more than only
job, it entails everything we learn and work at during our lifetime. People change jobs or
get retrenched all the time, we can read about it in newspapers, watch on television, hear
on radio and see everywhere around us. Are those just inexpressive discussions or does
career/ position in real life play a role? And what does career means for me and for my
life?
I am studying in secondary school now. Therefore, I think, that it is the right time to
choose and to guess rough ideas of my future and next (need to say – the first)
profession. It's no fun at 18 years old when people ask what you want to do. I can think
about it for hours and hours. I think there is a lot more to it than just
education/career/position in life. One meaning of vocation is career, a life-work chosen
by a person to use personal talent, provide some service or goods, earn money, and
contribute to society. Each of us is made up of many different things and lives a "certain"
lifestyle which is directly related to our education, career and position in life.
Our culture worships planning. Everything must be planned in advance. Our days,
weeks, years, our entire lives.. We have diaries, schedules, checklists, targets, goals,
aims, strategies, visions even. Career planning is the most insidious of these cults
precisely because it encourages a feeling of control over my (our) reactions to future
events. In reality, people frequently don't know what they want. Actually I don’t know
what I want, too. And this is the main reason why I will try to find and recite arguments
for and against making career.
I think that determinant factors and arguments for making career are money (of
course), promotion, secured old age with pension and good chances of communication
with others. Yes, that’s it – I know that money is one of main things in career not only in
my life, but it is important for most people. Is it wrong to be motivated by money? I
guess absolutely not, but it may not be right to be motivated by money alone. And it is
certainly not advisable to sacrifice what could be a lucrative career for something that is
more or less a dead-end job. Fame, money, „love” (to my job) - I may find all three, but it
is difficult to pursue all three at the same time.
There is a bad side of making career: great responsibility, no free time for friends
and family, stress which can make depression. It’s not easy, because there are 3 steps to
the career development process: self-assessment, career exploration and job education
search. I see that career planning becomes painful precisely because it's such an important
decision and we come to understand that we have only very limited useful information.
What career will suit my personality? I don't know what kind of career I would be
best at. Personally, to me, it doesn't really matter if I am a butcher, a baker or a furniture
maker.. Honestly, sometimes I feel a little intimidated about all those bachelor degrees. In
my opinion, the main thing is that I am happy with what I do and I strive to be the best at
what I do. I live with a principle - when we are young, many opportunities knock at our
doors, and however life is too short to keep working on something I don’t like. Of course,
at the end of the day, I'll need to make the choice myself too, and then I will try to keep
my hobby and develop my career at the same time, because I want not only a career, but
also a life! And I think that this purpose (if you understand what I want to say with it) is
preeminent argument for making right career.
Jelgavas 4. vidusskolas Comenius programmas
projekts
„Mana personība un karjera multikulturālā
sabiedrībā”
līguma Nr.
2008-1-LV2-COM07-00040 1
Raivis Ašmanis 11.a
The role of Career in my life
We all have some priorities. So career plays a very big role in our lives. Everybody
thinks and dreams about his future job, even if you are only a kid. In principle job is the
most important thing to start build your career. Everyone wants to make career as early as
possible and as good as they want. No one wants problems and worries in our lives,
especially in our career, because successful career provides good incomes and that’s
brings under also your life quality, especially if you have a family.
Personally I have big hopes for my career. I will do anything to make my career
successful. There are many factors that will make my decision what job and career I
want. It will be very important what kind of education I will get. So if I get a good
education and education of speciality what I want to work, that will be ideal. That’s very
important, because I want to work in speciality where I can get a satisfaction. Job that
gives positive feelings. That’s very important and that gives you more pleasure to make
your career better.
Other very important thing is incomes. I think that money is the main reason why we
choose to make career, because it’s hard to live without money nowadays. Money gives
you stability in life and helps you to survive in this world. Also money you earn from job
can give you more options to improve your career and your incomes will increase.
Successful career is one of most important targets in my life, it gives you so much
potentialities. As I mentioned, I will do anything to make my career successful and I hope
that I, my family and friends will be proud. Definitely career plays a very big role in my
life.
Essay
Career is a term defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as an individual's
"course or progress through life (or a distinct portion of life)". It usually is considered to
pertain to remunerative work (and sometimes also formal education).
As the idea of personal choice and self direction picks up in the 21st century, aided
by the power of the Internet and the acceptance of people having multiple kinds of work,
the idea of a career is shifting from a closed set of achievements, like a chronological
résumé of past jobs, to a defined set of pursuits looking forward. In its broadest sense,
career refers to an individual’s work and life roles over their lifespan.
When someone is building his career he grows. Develop talents and get confidence.
Its good way to prove yourself and others how perfect you can be. Its way to be the best.
Travel around the world. Meet very many new, different and interesting people.
Money, it’s some of reasons why people make their career. Money makes world,
money does everything. So it’s good to have money. And with good career you have
good money.
Go up on your career. Because if you have good work and everyone know you, if
they listen to you, it’s good. So you can help the world and poor people. Because
someone will listen in you and believe. They will help and vote for the real people.
If you want good career with high reward you may touch with some bad things.
For example bad health. Working hard you kill yourself. All the stress and nerves
each day, doing something and thinking about serious things. Recycling may drive you
in very serious health problems, not just mental but in physical too. People even die after
recycling. And it’s very bad thing.
You can lose family and friends. Working is good till that moment, when you
forget about your friends and family. And it’s no excuse working. Because work will
never help you, when you need it. Never say good words, never, never.
With trying make career you have no free time. No holidays no private life.
Always just working and trying to get promotion. Doing everything to get money. But
where you can spent money, without holidays.
I think career is very important in every person’s live. You need to make it, but you
can’t live joust with this small but important thing. Sometimes you need to rest, to be
with friends, family. Because you make your career not just for yourself, but for others
too. If you can balance, your career will be good and important.
Alisa Ratkeviča 11.a
Jelgavas 4. vidusskolas Comenius programmas
projekts
„Mana personība un karjera multikulturālā
sabiedrībā”
līguma Nr.
2008-1-LV2-COM07-00040 1
Essay
Career
Career is very important in our life. I think everyone was dreaming when they was
kids, that they will be like parents. But when they grow up, they start to search job, what
is necessary now days, not what they like. I will tell you about some factors, how people
choose profession.
People need to find job they like. It is the most important factor, how we need to
choose profession. But nowadays it is hard to find that kind of job. But if you find job
that you don`t like, then when you will need to go to job, you will be very unhappy. But
if you find job you very like, then when you will go to job, you don`t think that you are
going to job, but just do something you like.
Second factor is reward. You need to find job, what is good paid. But if you find
job you like and it is good paid, you will be very happy. Often people choose job what
they don`t like just for money. Without money people can`t live. And now it`s hard time.
Third factor is working time. If you are family people, so you need to find job
when you can be with family. Then best job is the job, you can do at home via computer.
People also need relaxing. If they will be working many hours, then they will be very
tired.
We all want the best work. Or better not to work, but earn money like in movies.
Live in house on the sea. Be very rich, lie on beach, go to the party and do something
crazy.
Ritvars Eglājs 11.a
The role of career in your life
First of all, what does career means to me nothing? Well I had many
thoughts about that, but at the moment it's not very important to me.
Lots of times I see and talk to people who are tired, bored and burnt
out of their current jobs. I'm not sure what causes this dis- satisfaction. One reason,
though, that I've thought about is that the work they are doing is not their life passion.
I have a friend that is very successful in his chosen career, he makes
a ton of money, owns three cars and a house. He's also consistantly depressed. Hates his
job and has more debt than assets. I have another friend that switches jobs every six
months, he owns an old used car, rents a bachelor suite and usually earns a below average
income. This friend is always happy and optomistic, loves the challenge of learning a
new job every six months, has zero debt and a sizable savings account.
I think that your career, position if life, your education or your
income does not in anyway define who you are. It is all part of who you are, but doesn't
define you as a person. It's the how and why you have come to these things that speaks
most about who you are.
It's amazing to see people come to life with new goals, new attitudes,
and new possibilities, when they see and know their potential. Potential for the future,
from the past.
Maksims Š.