Village is More Global, Language is More Vital (by Marcin Skomial pp.151-153)

A Personal Response:

In what kinds of jobs other than those mentioned in the article do you think knowledge of more than one language would be useful? Why?
In my opinion, currently, every types of job do need knowledge of more than one language; however, it depends on the function of those jobs that the language is considered in very necessary or not. For example, you are working in the global company. Even though your job function doesn’t seem using language that much, you have to know at least English language either to communicate with other colleagues in the different country or to reading and to understanding what the headquarter wants to say.

How do you think someone who speaks and writes more than one language well could take advantage of this ability?
Sure. Someone, who is good comprehensive more than one language take more advantages in real world. Because, nowadays, world is smaller. It’s not difficult to contact other from outside country particularly in work. Speaking and writing skill in different language are required as a basic skill for children. Whoever can’t both of speaking and writing is going to be a weak point in such a career.

Do you think it is a good idea to take a job that offers on-the-job training even if the pay is low in the beginning? Explain.
Yes, I do. It’s a good opportunity because of not everyone start with perfect condition, even though the pay is low in the beginning. Someone doesn’t take a job that offers on-the-job training just because he thinks that he can get a good job that give him a better pay. Finally, he wastes his time and can’t find so good job as he expects.

Age and Youth (Pablo Casal: pp 119-121)

It’s very rare that people think like Casals. Most people are thinking about retirement on their age coming. They always think what they have to do after retirement or how are the rest of their lives going to be. On the contrary, Casals desires to work; even through he is nearly a hundred year old. He looks around the surrounding as much beautiful as it is. He has a positive attitude on living and working. He, fortunately, works on the thing he loves – Music, so that he never gives up on working.

He said; “working is life” and “to retire means to die.” That means work is a part of his life. He can live because of work. Aging doesn’t mean getting old, so there is no retirement for him. By the way, I can’t imagine how life is going to be after retirement, if I don’t work or I can’t do anything even I suppose to do. It sounds pretty terrible.

Sea is a symbolic of changing because sea never idles. There is new wave after the old one gone. It reflect to Casals’s live that he never stop working. He said; “it is never the same” and “sea is the process of change.” Life never ends, unless unbreathing. By the way, someone told me that “changing is symbolic of being alive.” I definitely agree. Stop changing is like being death in spite of breathing.