sexta-feira, 17 de julho de 2020

WRITERS' CORNER #40


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

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