World of Jobs
We spend great part of our
lives at our jobs, so choosing a right career is one of the most important
decisions you will make in your life. Many students finish high school and
begin college without a clear idea of what they want to do in future. Part of the
problem is the size of the job market itself. With so many kinds of jobs (2000)
how can you tell which will interest you? Some of occupations are already
overcrowded. In old industries there may be little need for new workers, while
new and growing industries will offer jobs now and in the future. Therefor, it
is extremely important to explore your choice of occupations from every angle,
collect as much information as you can. But above all you must evaluate
yourself. Find out where your interests and talents lie. Postponing a decision
is an error people make. "I'll get started tomorrow or next week, or next
year," - many people think. These people refuse to face the problem,
hoping it will go away. But if you don't take the first step now, how can you
plan for the future, how can you take the right way? Such people miss many
opportunities. First start with yourself, make a list of your interests,
talents and abilities. Most people have a lot of these, but at the beginning
they are undeveloped and may not seem outstanding. By concentrating on a few,
or on one you may surprise yourself at how good you can get. The interest
inventory that follows covers the major fields in which most people find
careers: science, art, social service, business, sales and so on. Sometimes we
say that someone we know is 'a square peg in a round hole'. This means that
person we are talking about is not suited for the job he is doing.
Unfortunately, many people in the world are 'square pegs'. But to be a 'square
peg' is not a real problem, a real problem for millions of people is to be
unemployed. Unemployment especially hits poor and working class families the
hardest, not because this people are more likely to be unemployed, but because
they don't have financial resource to fall back on. Unemployment exists
primarily for two reasons: first - the existence of millions of unemployed
people tends to present most of those working from asking for higher wages
since they can be replaced easily, second - in their search for profits, corporations
are interested in finding the cheapest labor. As for our country more than 10%
of our people are unemployed. There is no lack of work force in Russia, but at
the resent moment the need for professional workers is increasing. Old
industries are overcrowded and it is hard to get new education for people whose
age is 35-40 years. The problem of unemployment is also connected with the
economic crisis in our country. And I think when this crisis comes to an end
the problem of unemployment will not be so urgent.
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