Friday, November 4, 2011

Journal #10 (week 11)

Hi!

Thanks to those of you who have responded to last week's question.

This week's question is from Yu. Here it is:

Is having a career important for you? Why or why not?

Have a good weekend.

Happy writing!

8 comments:

Unknown said...

Of course yes. Every one must have career, without career, I think our life will stay in one place, and it will not move. For example, you have no job no career, you can make money for a living, no and it is very important thing in human life. Person without career its same as car without tires. I brought this example because how can car move without tires same as people you have no career so its mean you have no real job which you like to work in it with interest. Some people are working in our days in a lot of places which they want and they are working without career like on waiters, clean services, and other jobs like this and their salary is not enough for their living. And every one need some career. If you have career you can make you life colored. ....

Satsuki said...

I think having a career is very important for me. My university in Japan is not high level, so I regret about it little. The reason why having a career is important for me is because it is very important to get a job in the future. First, people have to write about own career on the sheet for the company to get a job. Unfortunately, company will check our career and it is most important thing for the company. Career shows everything about people for the company. Of course, there are many people who have a good career, but they have a great ability for the company. However, company can’t know about that from only sheet or short time interview. Also, having a good career is good opportunity to learn more intellectual knowledge and to make friends who have high quality about thinking for the future. People can study about any subject at the great school higher level than lower level school. Also, there are many students who have high aspiration for anything. I had opportunity to talk with my senior who got the job. He has a great career, and he has many friends and all of them have good thinking for the future. I thought again that career is very important to get a job. I think having career is not everything for the life, but it is very important.

Kento said...

Having a career is super important for me same as Oyatullokh and Satuki. There is a simple reason: if I don’t try to have career, I will not able to work in the movie industry. Generally, a career means work record or background of companies that you worked in. In addition, if you want to get a good career, you will move bigger company than a previous company, and do that several times. Finally, you’ll get a good career. I think it is common thinking of career. However, in the movie industry that I want to work in, a career is little different from other industries. A career means not only company that you worked in but also movies that you related in the movie industry. If you belong to a company and relate hit a movie, you can have a career. If I work as either a worker in company or a free worker, a career that movie I related could be a hit or not is essential thing in order to get next job. Especially, such a career is extremely important for director and producer. I heard that sponsors of movies tend to make a decision that they put money into a movie or not depend on director or producer. This situation is very hard, but I can get a big success if I achieve to have career in the movie industry.

who said...

Yes, it's important for me to have a career same as Kent's reason.
Moreover, I recommend young people should have a career even though they have not surely decided and understood their dreams yet. There’re some reasons. Firstly, young people don't have enough experience to realize their real dreams and how to achieve their goals. For instance, my friend in Japan quitted going to university when he was freshman because he could learn nothing from university’s classes. He wanted to be a photojournalist; therefore, he went to U.S. to study photojournalism after he quitted university. However, 2 years later, he came back to Japan and started working another job. I asked to him, “What’s going on?” He said, “I gave up my dream because there were so many difficulties. I couldn’t stand anymore, and I regretted that day I had quitted my university.” It was shocking for me because he had never acted against his will. Then, I understood having a career is a better way if people exactly don’t know the way to achieve their dreams.
In addition, people can throw away their careers anytime they want if they realize career is not important for their businesses. For example, my English teacher in Japan had quitted having his great career before he became a teacher. He was satisfied becoming teacher because he actually wanted to be teacher. He said, “Previous job’s payment was good, but choosing a job what I want to do is more valuable for me.” Sometimes, adults who have a great career suggest that having a career isn’t important, and then such adults actually throw away their careers and restart something that they really want to do. However, only people who have had a career once can say having career isn’t important because they finally realize their dreams. In short, it’s never too late to do something important after people have nice careers.
All in all, young people, compared with adults who have careers, cannot expect what happen next on their life and how to accomplish their dreams. Young people could possibly face a situation that requires a career to be, get or achieve something important. Therefore, people should have a career as an experience to choose their important dreams.

shiki miyazaki said...

I think having a career is very important because of two reasons: getting a job and quality of life. First reason is that employers evaluate us when employees try to get jobs. We have to answer a lot of questions about our experiences when we try to find jobs. For example, these questions are the most impressive experience in our college lives and the thing we strive the most in our college lives. In order to answer these questions, we have to challenge and get or learn something. Actually, one of the reasons why I decided to study abroad is to experience various things I cannot do in Japan. In the field of pharmacy, the ability of English came to be very important recently. In particular, I would like to research, invent or improve medicines in the future. Therefore, English ability is important because I have to read and write documents in English. In addition, in the field of pharmacy, few university students study abroad. In fact, there are not any pharmacy students who study abroad as exchange students in 10 years in my university. Therefore, I think studying abroad is a good advantage for me when I try to find a job. Second reason is that I can be relieved by my career when I am disappointed. For example, I can have confidence if I have good careers in my life. Moreover, the career can be an origin of energy when I face something difficult. Thus, I think having a career is very significant for me.

Kuo-hung, Liang said...

I think it is vital for me to get a job from now on. An example is that if I have a good pay of occupation. I am able to purchase the dwelling before the age of 35. In fact, it is difficult thing for adolescent to buy the apartment because it is too much crowd to live Taiwan. The populations of my home country are twenty-three millions people. However, the Taiwan just covers an area of 36,008 square kilometers. So, it is hard for teenage to afford their real estate because the apartment prices in Taiwan are experience. Thus, the high pay job is important factor for me to achieve the goal. Another reason is to build the social bond in the workplace. Friends are critical part in my life because I would like to work at the capital of Taiwan to make more money. It must be far away from my home country. Therefore, I need to the company to take care of me. The most important example is to face the new challenge in the occupational career. I think the campus life is totally different with occupational career. In the terms of service industry, I should understand how to deal with rude customer. If the customer think the service quality of this dining out place is not good. I ought to utilize my knowledge to solve the problem immediately. Thus, the job experience is trained me to be more efficient to solve the trouble. In short, having a job can teach me how to think and give me the direction to achieve my goal.

yuinami said...

I think almost all university students say it is important for them to have career, but I'm not sure about it. My parents requested me to enter high level university. I accepted it because I think it is devotion to my perents. I really studied hard, so I can enter my university that my parents wish for entering. I'm sutisfied by my university, because I can meet my friends and teachers. However, I think that having career is not so important. Of couse, It is better than nothing, but many people success and get a lot of money without careea. They just do thier best for thier job more than others. I think effortis is most important thing. Career prove thier effort, but that is the past thing, so to keep making effort lead to thier success.

Marika said...

It’s important for me to have career as a job, but it’s not so important for me to have career as a degree. The reason it’s important to have career as a job is that the job I would like to do in the future need the career. If I didn’t have some careers as jobs, I already know I couldn’t get good jobs. The example is similar to Kento and Tastuya. Thus I need career as a job. On the other hand, it’s not important for me to have career as a degree. About career as a degree, I almost agree with Yu’s opinion. I also think having the career is better than nothing. However, actually, the job I would like to do is more important to have powerful connection than to have career as a degree. Also, I think having powerful connection is the result of efforts, so it’s important to make efforts continuously. The most reason is that I believe the word that most Japanese people often say efforts can’t be betrayed for people to make success. Therefore, making effort is important for me rather than having career as a degree.