До іть ! Англ мова. You are going to read an article about people who gave up their jobs to start their own business. People may be chosen more than once.
Starting your own business
We talked to four people who gave up working for somebody else and started their own business
A) Beautician
I had to rethink my future when the multi-national company I worked for as a marketing executive decided to move my job to the USA. My life back then, wearing designer clothes and taking regular long-haul flights, couldn’t be more different from today. Well, I wanted a job where I’d have the chance to interact with people more, and saw a gap in the market for a beauty salon locally. Working for yourself is great as you can make your own mind up about things and you aren’t driven by someone else about when and how you do that. But the flipside is that there’s nobody to share the burden with when you wake up in the middle of the night worrying about how you’re going to pay the rent. But I have no regrets.
B) Gym owner
After seventeen years working I banking, I wanted to try something totally different. A business that used a combination of my financial, sorting and parenting experience, but which didn’t involve such long exhausting hours at the office appealed to me a great deal. I came across the concept behind The Little Gym by accident when I was surfing the Internet. It’s a novel concept that had gone down really well in the USA. It caters for children from four months to twelve years, giving them good-quality physical instruction and a cerebral work-out at the same time. Having control of my own life is a definite high, as is seeing my staff doing a good job. Every day is different, so it’s never boring.
C ) Caterer
I worked for a big international company, but was no longer finding it rewarding. I’d completed twenty year’s service, so I had some money saved up, but not enough to retire on. But I took sox months off and we went to stay with my wife’s family in Spain. It was a good opportunity to ponder the question: “What next?” That’s when we got the idea for Tapas in a Box. We were in a bar eating the local Spanish food called “tapas” and I thought: “This would be perfect for people back home who want to have a great, relaxed time with friends, without spending ages cooking”. The challenge was then to work out how to deliver the mix of foods all at once, because tapas includes things like raw almonds and chilled cheeses as well as the hot things that need heating in an oven. Once we’d cracked that, we were up and running I can’t stress too much the thrill you feel when a customer tells you they’ve had a great time. The sense of having gone from a new idea to actually delivering something good is very motivating.
D )Virtual PA
I’d been a secretary and persona assistant (PA) for twenty years and had begun to dread the thought that I’d be at the same desk until I retired. When the company announced that its European office was to close, I couldn’t taken a drop in salary and found another job locally, but decided to set up my own business instead. I got my idea because, in effect, I’d been a virtual PA all along. My boss was usually only in the office a couple of days a month, so we’d always worked remotely by email and phone calls. I thought I could offer a similar service to other busy people. Now I’ve got all sorts of regular clients, including surveyors, solicitors, an advertising agency and even an author. I never expected such a mix. I can’t wait to see what challenges lie in store for me.
Which person:
1.mentions how good it is being able to make your own decisions?
2.was keen to make use of a wide range of existing skills?
3.sometimes feels anxious about financial aspects of the business?
4.had to solve a technical problem before launching the business?
5.took time to decide what type of business to start?
6.is happy to have received positive feedback from clients?
7.enjoys seeing employees making a success of things?
8.was able to drew on experience gained in a similar working situation?
9.is surprised to have attracted such a wide variety of clients?
10.was keen to work on a more personal level with clients?
Объяснение:
Health plays a very important role in our life. Nowadays, many people think that good health is above wealth and an each man needs in healthy body, but others disagree with them.
In my opinion, health is the key to a happy life. In the first place, a healthy person full of energy and positive. He enjoys life and share this joy with others. Second, health prolongs life and helps in old age to be active as in youth. Finally, a healthy body can lead people to a healthy mind and a bright and interesting life.
Nevertheless, some people believe that health insurance is a waste of time and efforts. They consider that a healthy lifestyle and proper nutrition is expensive and does not brings any result.
I completely disagree with this opinion. Easy to be healthy, because it is necessary to follow a few simple rules. Moreover, health is cheap and available for everyone.
In conclusion, I am strongly convinced that in every human life health is a very important thing. All people must take care of their health, because it is easier to take care of our health that to recover it. We should not forget that the first wealth is health.
I mention in the piece that even though there are both advantages of advanced technology, I wish a more developed world, with great technologies. Today, we can’t imagine ourselves without technological advances such as cars, microwaves, cell phone, computers and televisions. However, technology won’t stop here, but develop further. As technology develops, there are not only advantages, but disadvantages from them. A few advantages of upgraded technology are that one can save time and money and life will be made easier as a result of not having to do all the hard labor. In contrast, the disadvantages of upgraded technology are that people will loose their jobs to machines that will do the work for them. I personality would want a developed world with advanced technologies. My major reason is because when you have advanced technologies, life is much easier as robots and machines would take over your daily life chores. For example, daily life chores might be serving your breakfast, cutting your lawn, or cleaning your room. With robots and machines doing one’s chores one has time to relax.Other reasons why I want advanced technologies are because they save a great deal of time and money. Another example of benefits from advanced technology is that if there are new, developed vehicles that will transport people to anywhere rapidly, so that one would not need to spend all those boring, long hours in an airplane to try to get another country. As there are so many advantages from highly developed technology, there also is a great deal of disadvantages from them. One advantage is that as technology develops, robots and machines will take over many jobs and people will loose their by contrast. As people loose their jobs, they will have hard time getting money which would make it hard for them to continue to meet living expenses. Another disadvantage of highly developed technology is that machines and robots are complex. It is hard to activate all the machines you have unless you can multitask. Even as there are as many advantages and disadvantages of technology, I personally wish a more advances world with great technologies. In the future it would be more about using your brain and being intelligent that doing the hard labor yourself. I hope these days come within my lifetime.