1. What was the best piece of career advice you were given? Did you follow it? Have you yourself given career advice to someone else? What was it?
2. Have recent economic events caused you to find ways of saving money/diversify your income? What areas of expenditure would you like to reduce?
3. Would you be tempted by a change of career if your new career provided for a lot of the non-fiscal things that you currently need?
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4. What is your reaction? Does the author's suggestion of joining the military seem far-fetched? Would it have been considered just as far-fetched if he had written the piece 100 years ago?
5. How attractive would having accommodation, a profession, and disposable income be to a young person today (assuming they could avoid front-line action)?
6. Is your country subject to the same pressures that might make joining the military seem a reasonable idea i.e. a shortage of affordable homes, a mountain of student debt, and personal debt?
7. Do you think that the military's "solutions" to these problems could be replicated in a non-military setting e.g. car pooling/sharing, apprenticeships instead of going to university, more house building? How would people in your country view the above strategies?
8. Are there any other institutions that provide for your immediate/future needs in a similar way to joining the military? Can labour shortages be addressed by offering good global packages to potential employees? Do you know of any examples?
9. If you could modify your current job with only one of the following elements, which would you choose?
a) The use of nearby accommodation
b) Increased non-specialisation training
c) Subsidised public transport/use of company car
d) A less intense working regime that allowed personal projects
10. Daniel Younan's text contains one or two errors that make certain idioms appear non-idiomatic - can you spot them?
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Situation
You are a careers advice officer for a local college. Give your counterintuitive advice to a student (your teacher) who has yet to decide on his/her future career.
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Discuss quotes
“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.”
– Latin Proverb
“Desperation works in job search as well as it does in dating. ”
– Darrell Gurney
“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do. ”
– Confucius
“Where military service begins, logic ends.”
― Turkish Proverb
"A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten."
- Oscar Wilde
"If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments."
- Earl Wilson
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