Post 2 (23-04) Why your Career/Study Programme?

Level 3 - Post 2 (week 4) Why did you choose this career/study programme?



Write about:
- your dream jobs when you were a child
- other career options that you had at the moment of applying to university
- what made you decide in the end
- your experience at university until now
- the kind of job you would like to have

 > word count: 130 words

 > don't forget to leave comments on 3 of your classmates posts and on your teacher's post as well.
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I studied English Linguistics, and I always thought "what would my future job be?". I always wanted to have a fun, light, easy going and not too hard to do job, but always wanted to be with people. And here I am!!

From all the many areas I could work in, I always wanted something neither too-much outdoors nor indoors, furthermore I wanted something that would produce some kind of social change, a good important and deep change.

In other matters, I wanted to travel, to see the world, to meet strange people, well... strange meaning, different than me and my friends and family. With teaching languages, I have been able to do all the former, which leads me to think it was the right choice.

I tried working in an office once, in a job that was not as stressful as a teacher's job but after a year, and after missing the classrooms a lot, I decided to go back to stressful, challenging but rewarding teaching.

Nowadays, I am thinking on taking up on PHD studies in the field of Applied Linguistics, I would like to do it either in the Netherlands, Switzerland and/or England; although nowadays and considering the wide experience on multilingualism they've got, I have been thinking quite seriously on going to India instead.

I would like to do it in those countries, well, in the two first ones because they have a long history of successful multilingualism and because they are definitely good at languages. England on the other hand, would be my last choice, and this is because of a fact that gave birth to a joke, that is, - and please, no offense-, but the joke says: "how do you call a person who speaks only one language? […] you call them British"...LOL

Comments

  1. AnonymousApril 23, 2018 at 12:58 PM

    Hope you can do your PHD! and all of those countries are great, but If I were you, I would choose the Netherlands.

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  2. UnknownApril 23, 2018 at 1:00 PM


    I also want to travel around the world and journalism allows me that.

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  3. UnknownApril 23, 2018 at 1:06 PM

    I think that the pedagogy is one of the most beautiful careers, because you could change the life of a student if you do the right things . Good choice!

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  4. UnknownApril 23, 2018 at 1:19 PM

    I like the way you see the languages, as a form of knowing the world, by travelling and understanding.

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  5. Cinéfilos POPApril 23, 2018 at 1:24 PM

    I think that try to make a social change through education is somethings really important for society.

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  6. UnknownApril 23, 2018 at 1:32 PM

    And New Zealand is not a option to you? I have a friend who is studying there and told me that is pretty awesome.

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  7. UnknownApril 23, 2018 at 2:59 PM

    Is nice to read what was your purposes in pedagogy, an beautiful and life changing career and also an instance to generate ties with students. Important data: the State have a lot grants in PHD, take a look.

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  8. UnknownApril 23, 2018 at 3:47 PM

    I tried to work in an office, but I can't, it's very stressful for me, I prefer 100% a job that doesn't force me to be locked up all day in an office. Being a teacher is a nice job, I would like to be in the future.

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  9. Martin QuevedoApril 23, 2018 at 4:19 PM

    Among those 3 countries I prefer to go to Netherland.There had one of the most important ports in the world (Amnsterdam I think), that should give you a variety of languages and cultures.

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  10. AlencaApril 23, 2018 at 6:47 PM

    Work in an office must be very boring, it's good that you've decided teaching again!

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  11. ELPUMAApril 23, 2018 at 8:09 PM

    I have always thought that being a teacher is one of the most difficult things, is good that there are such courageous people!

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  12. Daniela BApril 23, 2018 at 8:30 PM

    I'm also interested in knowing different cultures and see the world! I hope Journalism help me to do that.

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  13. UnknownMay 14, 2018 at 6:55 PM

    I think that teachers really help with social change even if it's just a little, it's something

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