Opción B
THE KEY TO CHOOSING THE RIGHT CAREER
When I graduated from college, I liked lots of things. But love? Passion? That would have been an exaggeration- Choosing a career path is usually a confusing and stressing experience. Many will tell you to «follow your passion» or «do ehat you love», but this doesn»t seem very useful advice.
We all want to choose a career that will make us happy, but know can we know what that will be? In fairness, how are you supposed to know if you will be happy as an investment banker or artist or a professor, if you haven»t actually done any of these things yet? Who has ever, in the history of mankind, taken a job and had it turn out exactly as they imagined it would?
So if passion and expected happines can»t be your guides, what can be? Well, you can begin by choosing a career that fits well with your skills and values. Since you actually have some sense of what those are (hopefully), this is a good starting place. But a bit less obviously, you also want to choose an occupation that provides good motivation for you as well.
There are two ways you can be motivated to reach your goals. Some of us tend to see our goals as oppotunities for advancement, success and rewards. The rest od us see our goals a being about security – about not losing everything we»ve worked so hard for. So, if you are starting a new venture, make sure that you»ve got a healthy balance of promotion and prevention.
QUESTIONS
1. Are the following statements TRUE or FALSE? Copy the evidence from the text. No marks are given for only TRUE or FALSE.
A. Is is not always easy to decide what career to follow.
B. In order to make a good career choice you can begin by considering what you are good at.
2. In your own words and based on the ideas n the text, answer the following questions. Do not copy from the text.
a. Mention two reasons what the author of the text believes it is hard to make a career choice.
b. Explain two manners of achieving your objectives and choosing the rigth career.
3. Find the words in the text that mean:
a. puzzling (paragrapg 1)
b. matches (paragrapg 3)
c. achieve (paragraph 4)
d. risky activity (paragraph 4)
4 Complete the following sentences. Use the apropiate form of the word in brackets when given.
a. Usually people _______ (motivate) by both promotion and prevention.
b. Cal Newport»s is the _______ (good) career advice book I _______ (ever read).
c. Nobody is to blame _______ making a wrong career choice. It is a difficult to be sure _______ ehat you want to do when you are very young.
d. In Spain thera are many places _______ you can find career advice.
e. Complete the following sentence to report what was said.
«Choose a job you love», John told Jennifer.
John told Jennifer _______________________________________________.
5. Write about 100 to 150 words on the following topic.
Explain the factors that might influence your career choice.