B2 – Upper Intermediate
Starting a career or a business when you are young is nothing but easy. Perhaps all of us went through struggles as that newbie in the company. But for some others, they used being young and free to their advantage and stopped at nothing to succeed.
Read the article below about being successful at a young age and be ready to discuss the different idiomatic expressions used in the article.
http://esl.about.com/od/businessreading/a/Young-And-Free-Prerequisite-For-Success.htm
Discussion Questions:
- How was your work life like the first years you joined the workforce? How has it changed over time?
- Describe a situation at work when you had to start from scratch.
- Are you the type of person who takes the bull by the horns? Talk about a time in your career when you had to make a bold move.
- Are you interested in working on your own startup? Why or why not?
- Do you agree that it’s a dog eat dog world out there? Elaborate on your thoughts.
2 replies on “Young and Free: Prerequisite for Success”
**Sorry, this was the definitive comment, not the previous one**
I decided to leave my architecture degree and start from scratch by studying the “Network connected computers systems administration” degree, which had nothing in common with architecture.
Although this wasn’t a business decision, I think that it was one of the hardest ones in my life. I took the bull by the horns and started over in an absolutely different world.
Nowadays, even though I’m not interested in working in my own startup, I think that having an ambitious behaviour has allowed me to make a very horizontal profile in Software engineering and earn a living from it. In my opinion, to be rich or building your own startup doesn’t have to be the only goals!
Many thanks for your efforts practicing your writing skills. Good job!
Look at how you can express these phrases in a different way:
Until your next entries!