Imagine you have been offered jobs by two different companies at the same rate of pay. One of the companies will provide you with many interesting and challenging projects to work on, but it offers very few vacation days. The job at the other company do not seem very interesting or challenging, but offer more vacation days. Which job would you prefer and why?
This topic reminds me of my previous work experience at Microsoft Taiwan. Projects at such an internationally renowned organization were, without doubt, interesting and challenging. As a result, I quite enjoyed the sense of fulfillment that exciting projects had brought me, and the number of vacations seemed comparatively unimportant. Let me elaborate on my reasons further below.
To begin with, working on challenging projects enables me to gain the sense of satisfaction from the job. As I mentioned earlier, working on ambitious projects assigned by my supervisors at Microsoft Taiwan made me feel that I did have required skills to complete something important. I still remember that our partner team was appointed to sell a software package called “Value Pack” to our Partners in Taiwan and the sales goal was at least 3,000 units sold. After working hard on the project for three months, our team eventually completed the project successfully and sold over 3,500 units to Partners. I felt that by doing this project, I not only enhance my sales and marketing skills but I also grow my value.
Some people may argue that taking vacations is more important since life should not mainly be devoted to work. This idea sounds reasonable in the first place, as life is actually not that long. Taking a vacation is necessary, yet I think one or two-week vacation time per year is enough. I don’t expect my company to offer me both big paycheck and lot of vacation time at the same time. I can still take whatever vacations I want or travel around the world after I retire, can’t I? As a matter of fact, I think the crucial point is that It’s my responsibility to make my not-long-enough life more valuable and meaningful. I myself feel fulfilled especially when I realize that I have the ability to accomplish some significant tasks and make a little difference to the clients, my company, and even the society. Therefore, I would still rather work on interesting and challenging projects than take more vacations.
To conclude, between exciting assignments and vacations, I would definitely choose to work on exciting assignments, as such tasks offer me the opportunity to grow my value and skills. Taking vacations is comparatively not the priority for me in the meantime.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, if, may, so, still, therefore, at least, i think, as a matter of fact, as a result, to begin with, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 15.1003584229 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 53.0 43.0788530466 123% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 52.1666666667 88% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1909.0 1977.66487455 97% => OK
No of words: 381.0 407.700716846 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01049868766 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41805628031 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95725874224 2.67179642975 111% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 212.727598566 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.564304461942 0.524837075471 108% => OK
syllable_count: 592.2 618.680645161 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.59856630824 146% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.9255793739 48.9658058833 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.473684211 100.406767564 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0526315789 20.6045352989 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.63157894737 5.45110844103 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.193276060057 0.236089414692 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0579298037997 0.076458572812 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.048987479425 0.0737576698707 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105573667844 0.150856017488 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0338996402952 0.0645574589148 53% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 11.7677419355 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 10.9000537634 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 86.8835125448 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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