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Team work or work on one's own? (Continuation) 3. Is that nice atmosphere really helpful for work? 
When you are all together, yes, you have the opportunity to discuss your ideas and solve problems in the most efficient way. But.. all these jokes, laughter and noisy discussions can be only entertaining and not productive at all. You can laugh all evening and come to your homes with the same amount of done work as you gathered before. All these things can be easily avoided if you are working on your own. Yes, you will be responsible for everything and should do everything just by yourself, but if you are not the one from the first item, will it scare you? I don’t think so.
 Don’t judge me for all these words. I know what I am talking about. I am preparing the large concert together with my classmates at my school now and I should work in team with them. And we have all these problems, that I listed above. I would be glad to do everything on my own but I just don't have such opportunity, what makes me so upset and sometimes even angry. What will you choose? Do you prefer teamwork to work on your own?

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Team work or work on one's own? (Continuation)

3. Is that nice atmosphere really helpful for work?

When you are all together, yes, you have the opportunity to discuss your ideas and solve problems in the most efficient way. But.. all these jokes/this joking, laughter and noisy discussions can be only merely/just entertaining and (English has antonyms which are often preferable to using the negated form of language  quite unproductive/not productive at all. You can laugh all evening and come return to your homes with no more work accomplished than/the same amount of done work as before you gathered/came together before.
All these things can be easily avoided if you are working on your own. Yes, you will be responsible for everything and should do everything just by yourself, but (ah, here is the perfectly correct use of the conjunction 'but'!)  if you are not the one from the first item, (I cannot figure out 'the first item') will it scare you? I don’t think so.

Don’t judge me for all these words. I know what I am talking about. Now I am preparing a big the large  (large is about size, a concert doesn't have size, but may have importance) school concert together with my classmates at my school now and I should work in team with them. And We have all these problems, that I listed above. I would be glad to do everything on my own but I just don't have such opportunity, what and that/which makes me so upset and sometimes even angry. 


What will would you choose/do you prefer? Do you prefer teamwork, or working to work on your own?  Here you can use the infinitive if you use it in both parts - '...to work in a team or to work on your own'

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Team work or work on one's own? (Continuation)

3. Is that (a) nice atmosphere really helpful for work?

When you are all together, yes, you have the opportunity to discuss your ideas and solve problems in the most efficient way. But.. all these jokes, laughter and noisy discussions can be only entertaining and they are not productive at all. You can laugh all evening and come to your go homes with the same amount of done less work as than you gathered would have done before otherwise. (suggested alternative)
All these things can be easily avoided if you are working on your own. Yes, you will be responsible for everything and should have to do everything just by yourself, but if you are not the one from the first item category, will it scare you? I don’t think so.

Don’t judge me for all from these words. I know what I am talking about. I am preparing the a large concert together with my classmates at my school now and I should have to work in team with them. And we have all these problems, that I listed mentioned above. I would be glad to do everything on my own, but I just don't have such  the opportunity, what which makes me so upset and sometimes even angry.

What will would you choose? Do you prefer teamwork to working on your own?


A great piece of writing. I think it is more important to write with passion than with grammatical correctness - and you certainly like to shoot from the hip. My own view is that this is not a choice that we can always make. We have to be able to work in both ways. For example, I am self-employed, but I still have to work in a team. In fact I have to lead one. But when I worked in another business I frequently had to work on my own. I loved your remark about people being so irresponsible (unfortunately I cannot quote it). We have a saying in English (it might be American): "Hell is other people" - they are the cross we have to bear!

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