When I was as you now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

May 20, 2013
To the students:
Remember:  Any writing with reading students of mine should at least write three contributions on the topic from the blog or from the text books.
Any oral or communicative students should contribute one topic from the blog.

Today's topic should be on:   what job do you want to work?

"When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
私が今のあなたのように。２１歳で自信に満ちあふれていた時には、今の私のように４９歳になるjとは考えてもなかった。
Samuel Johnson
English lexicographer and author
1709-1784
 I think we go to university to get a job. A job is very important factor in our life to have a family and a stable life or not.  In Korea today most graduates of university cannot get  decent jobs.  They will get a minimum
 wage of 880,000 won as part time workers.  This condition will not only give them a marginal life but also no way they can get married and have a family. If they are lucky to have a full time job, they still must pay their children's educational fee and mortgages for their home and they must retire before the age of 55, most in their 40s. Do you think Koreans are economically successful?  They live by working hard to the unknown owner of the system.  Remember Korea became bankrupted in 1997 and they are running business under IMF supervision and most probably Korean companies are under the bank supervision and the real owners are not Korean themselves but some international financial institutions in the USA.
But most Koreans work so hard and hard to survive compare to the people here in Japan .  Are you desperate to get a job, are you desperate in achieving your skills in colleges to get a better job?
In general I  think the Japanese students are comfortable under overprotected system and I don't think you have to survive keenly like the Koreans or others in Asia.
What is your opinion to the statement I mentioned about the comfortable situation of the Japanese students, do you agree or disagree about my statement?
gto