Topic.2

[partrita]

직업에 대한 만족(Job Satisfaction)?

Most people in modern society spend more than eight hours a day
working. Some are successful in their jobs, but many more are under
great stress. Workers are classified into two groups, self-employed
and employees.

An interesting fact is that the self-employed envy the employees, and
vice versa. The reason? People tend to exaggerate the others’ benefits
that they don’t have. Businessmen seem to have greater satisfaction
from their jobs than ordinary workers do. They have the power to
decide things by themselves. That’s why ordinary workers are envious
of them.

But businessmen must take responsibility for their decisions, and if
something goes wrong they could go bankrupt. Every employee has a
certain job responsibility, and if he does what he is expected to he
is usually exempt from bad consequences. He has a stable position.

A competent worker may enjoy many promotions and raises, but still be
at the mercy of the manipulations of corporate executives. Who is
happier is not the question. The important thing is that people must
decide which category they should belong in by eval!uating themselves
honestly.


Questions for Discussion :

<1> If you are a working person, are you satisfied with your current
job? Why or Why not?

<2> What are your priorities in getting a job? And the reasons?

<3> Would you take a night or overtime job if it were better paid? Why
or Why not?

<4> When do you feel like giving up your job?

<5> Do you have any plan to start your own business?

If so, what kind of business it will be and what are the obstacles in
starting your own business?




인간관계(Human relationships)

Today’s topic is human relationships and friends. Everybody makes his
own human relationships living in society. You meet a lot of people
through your entire life. Among those people, some just pass by, but,
some become your lifetime company. Human relationships are powerful
force. According to what kind of people that you make relationships
with, your life can be a hell or a paradise. Even your life can be
totally changed. Through today’s discussion, I hope that you can take
a look around the people in your life and give thoughts to the meaning
of those people to your past, present and future.

(1) How do you think about successful human relationships? Make your
own definition of the successful human relationships based on your
personal experiences, and share the basic factors requested to build
up a good relationship with other people.

(2) What kind of person you are in making human relationships? Are you
active or passive? If you are good at making the relationships, what
is your secret if any. If you are not, what is the reason?

(3) Talk about your most difficult experience in human relationships
so far and how did you overcome that? Also, share your most happiest
experience in your history of human relationships in detail.

(4) What is the difference between the people that you met at school
and the ones after graduation? What are the good points and the bad
points between before-school and after-school relationships?


(5) What is your understanding of best friends? How many best friends
that you have, which makes you to think that this one is going to be
my lifetime company? How many scores that you give to yourself as
friend of other people? Why did you give that scores to you?

(6) Do you think that marriage affect friendship? If you think so,
how? Can you tell the difference between pre-marriage and post-
marriage based on your experience or imagination. Do you think that
the difference can be big between men and women?

(7) Do you believe that men and women can be friends? If you think so
or not, what are the reasons?

(8) In summary, what do friends and other human relationships mean to
your past, present and future?