sábado, 16 de maio de 2009

Medicine

Medicine is one of the areas where human knowledge is connected with the hability to heal people. It works, in an ample direction, with the prevention and cure of illnesses in a medical context.

According to World-wide Organization of Health, it is not only the illness absence. It consists in the complete physicist, mental, psychological and social welfare.


Medicine is a cumulative state, which must be promoted through the life to make sure that its benefits are integrally enjoyed in the future.


Contemporary medicine applies health science, biomedical research, and medical technology to diagnose and treat injury and disease, typically through medication, surgery, or some other form of therapy.





Multiple Careers

I decided to make this post because, during an English class, our teacher talked about this topic.
She told us that this concept will be very important in the future, because many people will have more than one career during their lifespan.
And I'm concerned about it, because it will probably affect me. It might be good to have more than one career, because it's probably boring to do the same things during all the life. At least it's what I think. And there's also another good thing in that: we'll achieve more varied knowledge during our life than many people of the previous generation.
But it might also be a difficult challenge, because we'll have to work harder to be very good at each career.
Well, lets see how much careers will I have during my lifespan.


sexta-feira, 15 de maio de 2009

Multi-Tasking Madness

This problem affects many people who work, mainly those who work in offices.
You're probably asking yourself: 'What is that thing of multi-tasking madness?'. Watch this video. You'll understand better what is it after watching it.



Well, is it clearer now?
As you've seen in the video, multi-tasking madness is a problem related to carrying out multiple tasks at the same time.
The brain of the human beings has a good ability to change from one though to another, but it isn't as good as it looks. If we start performing more than one task at the same time, we will have more difficulties to finish them, than if we did each one separately, because, while we're doing part of one, we're thinking about the other tasks and we can't concentrate on the one we're doing.

There are some advices over the Internet to help people with this problem.
- Estimate the time you need to perform a certain number of tasks and then make the difference between the time you needed to do those tasks and the estimated time. Then, use that difference to help you estimating the time you need to perform future tasks.
- Use an external memory to help you making lists of things you need to do. This will reduce your probability of forgetting to do something.
- Try to start a task and complete it without interruptions. You may need to turn off some things (like messenger, skype, cellular phone, etc.).
- You should take some breaks (watch films, go out for a walk, etc.), so you won't start being boring. For me, that's the most important one .

Sources:
http://www.contextmag.com/setFrameRedirect.asp?src=/archives/199809/InnerGameOfWork.asp

quinta-feira, 14 de maio de 2009

The Job Makers

--------------- Education------- Professional formation------- Knowledge


What more do you need for a job? If you look at the classified, you surely notice that the number of jobs that require a licentiate degree is getting bigger.

So I started to wonder:

Q: How do I earn that title?
A: Studying.

Q: Where do I study?
A: At school.

Q : Who teaches you?
A: A Teacher!

Teacher, by my line of though, is the job that gives jobs!

Admit it, if you work now and if you have a good job, you owe that to your teachers. They made you in the employee you are, and believe, today, the most success the teacher is to transmit his/her knowledge to you, the easier you get a good job.

Some say: Teachers? Pff… Those $&%# that don’t make a $&%# and still have one extra free day in a week and 4 month vacations?

Well, those who think that, don’t realize how hard is a teacher’s work.

JUST think in one thing: you have to put up with annoying kids all day long! Every days! Whit that in the equation, they surely deserve all the extra free time!

It is a very important job nowadays, and I must admit:

I am happy to have teachers blowing up my mind.

quarta-feira, 13 de maio de 2009

Dirty Heroes

Today’s job market is one of the most diverse things ever known. If you look at it, its something positive! With the actual economical situation, having a great diversity of jobs from which to choose is a very nice good. But with such diversity, we will have “interesting” jobs like the one on the following video:




Yeuh! What a… Dirty Job!

In our society, to achieve the comforts we actually have, some people got to have some less clean jobs. This one is one of them.

Geoducks are a kind of giant clams, very appreciated by Japanese. As you could see, they grow up in the middle of the mud, approximately 1 meter below the surface. There comes the dirty part! You need to go into the mud with a water hose and grab them! Would you do it?

Well it is a very lucrative job. It is like taking out cash from the mud! Won’t you do it?

Your answer? Yes I would, if it was really cash, not those disgusting things!

You are probably not Japanese, so you might don’t understand why someone would like geoducks. But imagine… let see a hamburger! Do you know how do most cows in a farm get pregnant? Well a clue: someone have to get his hand in a very dirty place…

So, bow to your heroes: the dirty jobs workers!

Is that a Job?

Some days ago, wondering about what to post here, I suddenly Isaw a new on the TV.
It was about a British who had won the Best Job in the World.

So I started to search about it, and then… I really started thinking: Is that a Job?





http://www.islandreefjob.com/#/about-the-job/employment


So, let’s make it into topics:

-13851€/month;

-Working in a paradisiacal island;

-Being allowed to invite families and friends for free;

Hum… Is this Work?? Not for me! This is being paid to be on vacations! It is indubitably the best job in the world! It is sad there is just one spot to fill…

Ok, now back to serious stuff.

This is my first of four posts in this Blog: Jooooob World!

Here we will discuss several professions; if they are well paid, fun, good or bad for the employee’s social and familiar life…

We will try not to convince to apply for any particular job, but… my suggestion: try this one. It is the BEST job in the World.