Successful people are not gifted; they just work
hard, then succeed on purpose. (G.K.
Nelson)
Dreams don’t work unless you do. (John C.
Maxwell)
At this point in my
life, being in a stage in which I have to decide what I want my future to be
like, it is not only the job that I want that matters. For me, the most
important thing is how that job is going to give me personal fulfilment and
provide me the success that I aim to achieve.
That being said, I
believe that success is only possible if we give hard work much higher
consideration than the success that lies in the finish line. As John C. Maxwell
said, “Dreams don’t work unless you do”, and if this quote sticks with you
throughout your career, your work ethic and your persistence will be majorly
enriched. However, you shouldn’t be too ambitious or too unambitious, simply
because it is thanks to that ambition that your dreams become goals, which will
eventually be accomplished.
From my perspective,
if I’m not doing my best at something and I’m not working more than everyone
else in the room, then it isn’t worth doing it at all. That is why I long for a
career that is always changing for the better, mostly due to my evolving skill
and adapting ability - because, as people often say, luck requires a lot of
work.
Mariana Reina, 11ºH
A dream
doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard
work. (Colin Powell)
I never dreamt about success. I
worked for it. (Estee Lauder)
Hard work beats talent when talent
doesn’t work hard. (Tim Notke)
The statements perfectly illustrate
the challenges of the current job market.
Colin Powell's statement shows that if we have a
dream, we need to work very hard to achieve it and we can't be unproductive
people waiting for it to “achieve itself” like magic. This illustrates our
reality since the current job market is a "hard place to enter" and
if you have a dream, you need to work harder than all the others to have your
place.
Estee Lauder's mentions that you can't be successful
if you don't work for it. Nowadays, everyone dreams about being rich and
successful, but only the strong and the hardworking ones can be it because they
have given their best to a major cause.
Today, having a talent is quite
ordinary; everyone has, at least, one. Therefore, if you don't work way harder
than the others, your talent won't beat anyone else's talent. That reality is
illustrated in Tim Notke's statement.
To sum up, all these statements have one
thing in common, and that is hard work. In the current job market, if you want
to be the best and stand out from the crowd, you need to work very hard so that
you can achieve your goals and, eventually, become very successful.
Adriana
Pereira, 11°L
Bearing in mind the trends shaping
the job market, how work-ready are you?
How can
you stand out from the crowd these days?
As the years go by, the job market is shaped by trends
that can change every year. For example, being a youtuber started as a trend
many years ago and, even though I don´t agree with it, many people consider it
a career.
In general, these trends are more and more connected
with technology - from making videos for Youtube, as I have mentioned before,
to working over your cellphone. Bearing in mind the types of trends that exist
nowadays, I personally think that I am relatively ready for work. Like all
other teenagers, I spend a lot of time on my phone or on my computer and it
brings a lot of advantages because we learn more and more everyday.
To stand out from the crowd these days, I have to do
something that no one has done before and, although that may not seem hard, coming up with such ideas is really difficult.
In conclusion, to stand out and become successful in
life, you have to work hard and think about things no one else does because, in
some way, almost everyone wants to succeed too.
Sabine Bieltz, 11º J
