Different type of jobs
Since we are children, we are pressed to choose a good profession in my country.
When I was a teenager, I wanted to graduate in Physical Education, but for my mother discouraged because this career didn´t pay a good salary. So, I decided to study Computer Sciences. While I was in college, I got an internship as a developer and ever since I had been working only with systems.
Last year, I realized I needed to learn English, so I came to Ireland to study English. In Ireland, I needed to work in all kind of jobs to pay my bills. I´ve worked as a cleaner, housekeeping, waitress and in all these jobs I´ve been receiving good payment. I ´ve been receiving more here than in some jobs as a developer that I used to work in Brazil.
In Brazil, clearing toilet is considerate a demeaning job, but I don´t care about it anymore, because it pays my bills. I miss programming because I like to do this but sometimes it is good to work in jobs where you don´t need to think about anything. The huge difference between these types of jobs is the type of tiring.
Programming tires the mind and cleaning tires the body. And when the tiring is just physical, you take a shower, lay down and you are new again.
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Different Levels of Jobs
In my country, from when we are young, the pressure to choose a good profession is constant. When I was a teenager, I wanted to graduate with a degree in Physical Education, but my mother discouraged my pursuit of it because that career did not pay a good salary. As a result, I then decided to study Computer Sciences instead. Fortunately, while I was still in college, I got an internship as a software developer and ever since, I had only been working with computer systems.
Last year, however, I realized that I needed to learn English, so I came to Ireland to study it. Once I arrived here, I needed to work at all kind of jobs to support myself. I have worked as a cleaner, I performed housekeeping, I was a food server, and for all those jobs, I had received good wages. In fact, I have been earning more money here in some jobs, than I did while working as a developer in Brazil. As in most places, though, Brazilians also consider clearing toilets to be a demeaning job, but I do not even think or care about it anymore, simply because it pays my bills.*
Granted, I do miss programming because I liked to do it, but sometimes it is good to work in jobs where you do not need to think about anything. The major difference between these types of jobs is the type of labor involved--programming tires the mind, while cleaning tires the body. Another difference is that with physical work, after you take a shower, rest, and lie down a bit, you are as good as new again, but when your mind becomes tired, none of those things seem to work well, and it is hard to do anything.
Hi, Clarice. Good job! Whatever changes I made were to allow your sentences to sound more natural to my native ears, to clarify your thoughts, to eliminate repetitiveness, and for ease of reading. Sincerest apologies if I have misinterpreted. I hope that this help you. J.
*Just an aside, but there is nothing wrong with honest work, whatever its form. Even more so when it is just a means to an end. Practically all the attorneys that I work with, and I myself, did similar work to pay for college or for law school. In my opinion, only those who have never done it, actually view it that way.
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Different type of jobs
Since we were children (better: since childhood), we are pressed to choose a good profession in my country.
When I was a teenager, I wanted to graduate in Physical Education, but for my mother discouraged me because this career didn´t pay a good salary. So, I decided to study Computer Sciences. While I was in college, I got an internship as a developer and ever since I have been working only with systems.
Last year, I realized I needed to learn English, so I came to Ireland to study English. In Ireland, I needed to work in all kind of jobs to pay my bills. I´ve worked as a cleaner, housekeeper, waitress and in all these jobs I´ve been receiving good payment. I ´ve been receiving more here than in some jobs as a developer that I used to work in Brazil.
In Brazil, clearing toilet is considerate a demeaning job, but I don´t care about it anymore, because it pays my bills. I miss programming because I like to do it, but sometimes it is good to work in jobs where you don´t need to think about anything. The huge difference between these types of jobs is the type of exhaustion.
Programming tires the mind and cleaning tires the body. And when the exhaustion is just physical, you take a shower, lay down and you are new again.
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