Jobs

The main importance of a job is earning money. Everyone needs to pay hire, food, clothes… Just all the important things for living. Some people even consider the caviar for an important thing for living for example. These people are well-paid, they are executives. These executives are sometimes called as „fat cats“ because some people think that they do too little work for too much money. However, money aren´t only importance of a job. A job is also a social issue – when we have a job we have chance to meet with a lot of interesting people. When we have a job we live an active life. We get a lot of experience in our job and also our self-confidence grows there.

We can look for a job over the internet or in newspaper. We get a job through an employment agencies too or we even get a job from headhunters. That means we are so much good in our work that other companies scramble for us! Headhunters can offer us a clearly higher pay or something like that. If we apply for a job some employers could want a CV from us. Nowadays structured CVs are mainly required.
Employers may make some raw idea about us from that. Therefore we should be careful during its writing. We can be asked for a job interview too. But we don´t have to wait until someone offers us a job. We can work as self-employed. That means we work for ourselves.

A job can be divided into two main categories. We have manual workers as workmen, locksmiths, bricklayers and so on. Then we have brainworkers as economists, managers or teachers for example. The manualworkers get a wage and brainworkers get a salary. We know the time wage and the task wage. Salary is a certain amount of money which employees get every month. Some workers can get a commission too. For example, sellers often get a commission in a form of a certain percentage for every product they sell. Some workers may get a performance-related bonus if they are hard-working enough. However, workers don’t necessarily need to get only money but they could get some benefits too – they could be able to board cheaply in a company’s eating-places or get a company cars.

We know also these kinds of jobs: a full-time job – it is a job with the usual work time, a part-time job – it is work with shorter work time than is the usual work time, a permanent job – it is continual job and a temporary job – work time of this job finishes after a given time. This job is also called a brigade-work. We can have nine-to-five job or we can work in shifts – in day shifts or night shifts. We can do overtimes too for what we get overtime bonuses.

Nowadays, we also know jobs with flexi-time. It means that a person works when he wants to. Of course, one has some certain limits. It is an advantage for people who have a family for example, and they want to have control over their time. I must say I would want to work with fixed labour time because I like order – I feel good like that. However, working with flexi-time must be interesting too. Nowadays we can work through computers too – it is called teleworking or telecommuting.

Another important thing are labour unions. People get support in case of undignified working conditions or substandard pays - there is a defined minimum wage which employees should get. In case of infringement of these rules employees may also do some industrial action. For instance a strike, go-slow tactic or an overtime ban.

In case we get fired because of organizational changes we may request compensation money. For instance, in our country, compensation money is often given in amount of triple. If we are sacked because of our offence we will usually get nothing.

I think that it is absolutly great if a person likes his job. And the best thing is when a person is also well-paid for it. I´m convinced that if people don´t like their job the quality of their job isn´t high enough. On the contrary people who are interested in their job are more energetic and initiative and this fact is connected with their performance results. As for temporary jobs, I think that it is great when young people go to work abroad. Boys can work as manualworkers and girls as au-pairs for example. People can gain experience there. They can become more independent and the great advantage of it is improvement of a foreign language. This experience may be an advantage in another job.

The choice of job is the important thing for us. Therefore people should explore life around them and study themselves. We should know what are our abilities and hobbies. It could help us to the right choice of our job. We also may do some attainment tests which could help us with the choice. Some people want to work as manual workers but other people want to use their brain. We should know what standard of living we want to get. When we have a job we should be hard-working and responsible. However, some people are so hard-working that can suffer from the „burnout“. That can be very dangerous! That is the negative face of excessive assingment.