Choosing your way in life

Mary Glass is thirty-nine years old and she is a doctor. She chose the medical profession because she wanted to help people and at the same time to make good money. When Mary was younger her wish was to become a teacher or a nurse but she soon realized that there was not much money in either of those professions. Mary's parents were rather old-fashioned people and thought that a woman's place is at home. So they wanted their daughter to become a secretary, marry a respectable young man, have several children and stay at home working about the house and bringing up the kids. When Mary applied to a medical college, her parents refused to give her any financial support and she had to work as a waitress in a restaurant to earn money for her college fees. She specialized as an optician, made a good career in the hospital she works, got married, had two children and is very much satisfied both with her family life and her business career.

Billy Blackthorn left school when he was sixteen. He didn't study well and had no qualifications. He just wanted to earn some money and got himself a job in a factory. He didn't mind being a blue-collar worker, all he wanted was enough money to take his girl friend out on a Saturday night. But soon he and his fellow-workers were replaced by robots who could do their job and Bill was sacked. He was out of work for eighteen months and understood how terrible it was to be unemployed. The days seemed so long and the dole that he got was enough only for the cheapest food and second-hand clothes. Bill finally got a job as an unskilled labourer, working for a builder. He is twenty-five now and thinks that it is not too late to start attending night classes and get some extra training so that he can earn more money as a skilled worker.

John Rushton is a businessman. He is fifty years old and he has been working for the same company for twenty-seven years. He thinks that he has a very successful career. He started working for the com­pany as a poorly paid clerk and was one of those nine-to-five white-collar office workers who spend all day with a pencil in one hand and a telephone in the other. He hated it and asked to be transferred to sales where he became one of the company's sales representatives. John travelled all over the country selling the company's products and eventually became the most successful salesperson on the staff. In ten years he was promoted to manager of the sales department. He has got a good salary and benefits. He might retire in another ten years and then his pension will allow him to live comfortably in his country house enjoying his hobbies that he has no time for now while he still works.

Joan Evans: This month I am leaving school to face the real world. My main ambition is to live and work abroad. I want to work with people and see the world. I hope to go to college and do a tourism course. When I'm in college, I will learn at least two foreign languages. I think that by the time I'm 30 I'll be married and have a baby. I don't want to be rich and famous, but I do want to enjoy life. That's all anybody can really ask.

Steve Taylor: My greatest wish is to be a manager for Rolls Royce. I will go to work for Rolls Royce as an apprentice, and after 2 or 4 years I will be an engineer. I'm not very ambitious but I'd like to become a manager in Rolls Royce. I'll get married in my mid-twenties because I want to have children and my mother says that you need to be young to cope with them.

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