Consider something in your life you think goes unnoticed and write about why it's important to you
Working as a translator gives me the stability necessary to exercise my freedom. I sometimes forget the value of my work. As a freshman at Vassar College, I did not find satisfaction. I wanted to leave. To do that, I thought I needed financial independence. I happened to be had interested in translation; within a semester, I worked through my first volunteer position, to my current job translating webtoons, or Korean web comics. Eventually, I decided to continue my education. Studying Japanese at the college level was the one thing I could not give up easily. So, I no longer required immediate financial freedom. I became a translator to quit college. But I am still a translator, even though I plan to stay in school. The logical fallacy urged to me think about why I continued my work. I dismissed the idea that I carried on out of habit; I firmly believe in living so that my actions are not without purpose.
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What sort of job keeps me working? I realized I have three criteria for a good occupation. I must be able to perform the job well, at the least adequately. The work must keep my jar of rice full, to borrow a Korean expression. Lastly, the work should be fun or fulfilling, preferably both. I had not noticed that my current job fulfills the first and third conditions. How lucky am I to have reached such a job in the first nineteen years of my life? As fun and engrossing translation can be, it does not keep my jar of rice completely full currently. The global webtoon market is estimated to reach $1 billion in 2018. However, I am not a creator or a distributor who holds most of the money. If I were wasteful with my pay, my work would leave me little more than pocket money. If I were stingy, my parents would not need to support me through financial means. In reality, I am somewhere in
It is safe to say that work comes in many different forms. Whether it be a fast food or a corporate, the people that surround an individual make a great impact on the way he or she may work. Singapore, by Mary Oliver, is about a young woman working as a custodian in an airport who although works alone, enjoys her work and the people she meets. Dorianne Laux’s What I Wouldn’t Do, introduces another young woman reviewing the jobs she has had throughout time and reflects on those that she liked and disliked. Hard Work, by Stephen Dunn, exemplifies a young boy working in a soda factory during his summer break. Searching for happiness in life and work is just what these individuals are doing.
earn a living by teaching, but that only lasted about a month and a half
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Internet is a free platform where everyone can launch or release whatever they want to that market. With such characteristic of the Internet, the products, services or creations may, in a se...
The Internet has become a major tool for communication and access to information for over two and half billion people (Wright 121). Although Internet has become an unavoidable reality that is consuming our planet in a web of information. This process is being shaped by our actions and choices which ultimately drives us together (Deibert 11). Nowadays China has over 538 million netizens, the world’s largest online community (Feng & Guo 335).
My career choices have changed through the years from mother and housewife through architect, accountant, or teacher, finally I have arrived at a computer career. The following is an idea of the path I have followed.
After years of struggling with money, I was now able to concentrate on something else. College being free meant the only worry I had was doing my best so I could graduate in the future and finally get out of the cycle of poverty I had envisioned myself in for the rest of my life. It was a weight off my shoulders that freed me to do anything I could dream of. My focus was on the future and I knew I would be served well by the lessons I learned throughout my life watching my
My most favorite career that I ever wanted is to be a video game tester. What I like about the life of a video game tester is that you have to find bugs/glitches in the game. Once you find a glitch in the game, you have to report the glitch to the bug tracker database so that they can fix the glitch and make a new copy of that game. I know some of these roles are hard in this job, but I’ll do my best to get through them and get used to it later on in my life. I thought this job is about testing games but it is more than just playing games before they come out. It’s about finding bugs and glitches in the game.
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” Once said by a brilliant man Steve Jobs, Apple Inc. co-founder, chairman and CEO. This quote expired myself to create a truly satisfied place that I want to work and will love doing.
Then in eighth grade I came to the United States so this occupation change and got more difficult. Now I had to learn a new language and get used to a different education system and a new culture. I remember this being very difficult and frustrating because I wanted to do well in my classes but I didn 't understand my professors or the material, Luckily I was placed in a bilingual system with great people that were willing to help kids like me learn the language and be successful. Also at this stage of my life I was aware of the fact that if I wanted to be successful and have a good career I had to do well and finish school.