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2.- In your own words and based on the ideas in the text, answer the following questions. Do not copy from the text.
a) Mention two reasons why the author of the text believes it is hard to make a career choice.
b) Explain two manners of achieving your objectives and choosing the right career. (Puntuación máxima: 2 puntos). PRUEBA SELECTIVIDAD MADRID CONVOCATORIA JUN 2013-2014 INGLES. The Key to Choosing the Right Career When I graduated from college, I liked lots of things. But love? Passion? That would have been an exaggeration. Choosing a career path is usually a confusing and stressing experience. Many will tell you to “follow your passion” or “do what you love”, but this doesn’t seem very useful advice. We all want to choose a career that will make us happy, but how can we know what that will be? In fairness, how are you supposed to know if you will be happy as an investment banker or an artist or a professor, if you haven’t actually done any of these things yet? Who has ever, in the history of mankind, taken a job and had it turn out exactly as they imagined it would? So if passion and expected happiness can’t be your guides, what can be? Well, you can begin by choosing a career that fits well with your skills and values. Since you actually have some sense of what those are (hopefully), this is a good starting place. But a bit less obviously, you also want to choose an occupation that provides good motivation for you as well. There are two ways you can be motivated to reach your goals. Some of us tend to see our goals as opportunities for advancement, success and rewards. The rest of us see our goals as being about security - about not losing everything we’ve worked so hard for. So, if you are starting a new venture, make sure that you've got a healthy balance of promotion and prevention.

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2.- In your own words and based on the ideas in the text, answer the following questions. Do not copy from the text.

a) Mention two reasons why the author of the text believes it is hard to make a career choice.
The author talks about how hard it is to make a career choice, especially because we don’t know if the occupation we choose will fulfil our personal or professional expectations or make us happy, since it’s impossible to know it beforehand. That’s why so many people change major through college, because they don’t know what they want when entering higher education for the first time.  The author also believes that making a career choice is difficult because we must have a balance between what we want to do or achieve as professionals or human individuals and what is good and constant for our economic stability

b) Explain two manners of achieving your objectives and choosing the right career.
Setting our goals, professional or personal ones, for the long run can help us come up with a life plan to be followed in order to achieve said goals and word towards the best version of ourselves. Education milestones, personal improvement, among others are the steps we need to plan out.   If we know what and who we want to be, we can start looking for the career that best suits the future version of ourselves and what we want to do while we’re alive. We don’t have to get it right the first time, it’s completely normal to try out different things before we realize what we are really good at and what we want to be for the rest of our lives.  
PRUEBA SELECTIVIDAD MADRID CONVOCATORIA JUN 2013-2014 INGLÉS