I still have to study at least two years in my school in France. And I am looking for others Masters in order to continue my studies after my school because I don´t really know what I want to do as my future job. It is really hard for me to imagine where I will be even in one year, so in seven, I have to reflex a lot! But since I’m studying political sciences, I suppose that I will work in a public administration or in something relative to public areas. I want my job to be useful for our society, whatever will be the kind of job I will do. It is really important to me to have the impression that I help improving the world in which we live and where my children will grow up. So, I am thinking about working in environment areas such as sustainable development. It is really important to change our ways of living in order to preserve our suffering Planet and the jobs relative to the respect of environment are increasing vastly so that it will be easy to find a job in this sector.
I don´t really know which could be my ideal job. I would like to lead and organization whose activities aim at decreasing inequalities and reconsidering our relationship with the environment, mixing research and something concrete in order to have a real influence on political decisions. As far as the concrete aspects of the job, I would like to be able to lead but in an organization in which every associate and colleague could take part in the decisions made. I don´t need a lot of money, but I would like a job which allows me to raise my children without making sacrifices, to be able to take breaks when I need it and to improve my mind whenever I want going to the cinema or to exhibitions. I would like a job in Paris or in a big city, even if it is not in France, because I need to have everything really close to me. I don´t care how many hours I work if it is an interesting job and that I can take a break a few times during the year in order to relax.
mardi 29 juin 2010
jeudi 10 juin 2010
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library" Jorge Luis Borges
As Frederick Douglass said: “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free”.
I totally share his vision of books. Reading novels allows us to escape of our everyday life or to understand behaviors (ours or of the others). A good book is according to me a book you don’t want to close until you have finished it, a book that shows you a particular life, or what you can do to smooth over your life, to put into perspective your little problems, or to dream about other places, to imagine other lives. I almost only read novels because of that, even if I’m also found of sociologic or historic essays. But to relax, there is nothing better than a good novel!
At present, I’m reading Something to tell you, by the English author Hanif Kureishi. It is the story of a psychoanalyst in London, his patients, his family, his affairs. His calm life will be disturbed by the reappearance of witnesses of a murder he committed years and years ago. I like this book because the author manages to analyze the feelings of the characters in order to make them real, and to show how our behaviors are related to the others and how the human beings are interdependent.
One of my favorite authors is John Irving, and especially two books: The cider house rules and The world according to Garp. The first is the story of a boy who was born in an orphanage whose director help women with unwanted pregnancy, practicing abortion and keeping the babies. The second is the life of Garp and his family. Both manage to mix a very droll writing with an analysis of the way people act and all their contradictions, and also the familial relationships which are one of the most complicated things in the world!
I don’t think books will disappear. Maybe it will be harder to edit books because in comparison with downloading it on the internet, it will be very expansive. But I hope that there will always be a fringe of the population who will need to take the book, to smell it, and turn the corners quickly, without having finished the page before in order to discover what will happen. Maybe, the birth of the iPad for example will become an alternative to books, because reading a book on it is almost like holding it. But I will always need something more, so I hope books won’t disappear, even if I can’t predict the future!
I totally share his vision of books. Reading novels allows us to escape of our everyday life or to understand behaviors (ours or of the others). A good book is according to me a book you don’t want to close until you have finished it, a book that shows you a particular life, or what you can do to smooth over your life, to put into perspective your little problems, or to dream about other places, to imagine other lives. I almost only read novels because of that, even if I’m also found of sociologic or historic essays. But to relax, there is nothing better than a good novel!
At present, I’m reading Something to tell you, by the English author Hanif Kureishi. It is the story of a psychoanalyst in London, his patients, his family, his affairs. His calm life will be disturbed by the reappearance of witnesses of a murder he committed years and years ago. I like this book because the author manages to analyze the feelings of the characters in order to make them real, and to show how our behaviors are related to the others and how the human beings are interdependent.
One of my favorite authors is John Irving, and especially two books: The cider house rules and The world according to Garp. The first is the story of a boy who was born in an orphanage whose director help women with unwanted pregnancy, practicing abortion and keeping the babies. The second is the life of Garp and his family. Both manage to mix a very droll writing with an analysis of the way people act and all their contradictions, and also the familial relationships which are one of the most complicated things in the world!
I don’t think books will disappear. Maybe it will be harder to edit books because in comparison with downloading it on the internet, it will be very expansive. But I hope that there will always be a fringe of the population who will need to take the book, to smell it, and turn the corners quickly, without having finished the page before in order to discover what will happen. Maybe, the birth of the iPad for example will become an alternative to books, because reading a book on it is almost like holding it. But I will always need something more, so I hope books won’t disappear, even if I can’t predict the future!
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