Reading
Intro Question:
What topic is today’s lesson on?
Job Satisfaction
Vocabulary:
What words or terms do you know about this topic?
Preparation Exercise
- satisfaction – salary – boss – promotion – teamwork
– commute – stress – hours – colleagues – balance
I feel a lot of job ______________ because I enjoy what I do.
My ______________ is kind and helps me when I have problems.
I got a ______________ last month, so now I earn more money.
I work long ______________. I start at 8 a.m. and finish at 7 p.m.
Good ______________ makes the office a happy place.
I have a one-hour ______________ every morning. It’s tiring!
I like my ______________ because we help each other.
Too much ______________ at work can make people sick.
I want a better ______________ between my work and my family life.
She is happy with her ______________. It’s enough for her needs.
Discussion Questions:
1. How happy or satisfied are you with your job?
- I feel my job is a vocation - a calling
- Every time I taught in the past, it was difficult
- Some students knew more than me (leadership, presentation,
communication skills)
- 3 or 4 years ago, I changed my opinion – not teaching, but support – to help
students to find answers themselves
- When I asked students about their job/relationship/life, they found answers
themselves without their partner
- Now, when I introduce myself to students, my job is “learning facilitator”
- Education style is “ask” and “answer”
2. What about your job makes you happy?
- when students find answers for themselves
- many don’t want to know theory of leadership
- but they can find good answers when they think of their experiences/own
opinions
- I can learn from them
3. What things do you dislike or find challenging?
- I didn’t like to study when I was a student – but now my strength is curiosity
- reading books and learning something, from books, experts, different forms
of media
- I feel satisfaction when I study something and deliver it to students well
- they get some insight from what I deliver
4. In your opinion, is it important for us to feel happy when we
work?
- Happiness is more important than earning more money
- seeing students satisfied with happy faces makes me happy
- when I do my job well, the money follows
5. What was your first job like?
- When I started working in 2000 in online shopping
- a very small company – online book shop
- I choose products, recommend them and sell to my customer
- My major was computer programming – but it didn’t suit my emotions and
my style
- I understood online market systems; coding HTML was quite easy for me
- low level skills
-online shopping wasn’t successful then
- I started making education programs in a computer program community
- I could talk to expert programmers
- webpage design/marketing about IT
- expanded my area - transitioned to employment/company worker skills
6. What advice do you have for people who are choosing their
university major/degree?
- we don’t need to choose a job based on our major
- if we started studying in university for a long time, we will learn how to
problem solve
- every person is but we can learn in any job
7. Is it important to have a degree in your country?
- yes, especially for applying for a first-time job but after that, experience
matters more
8. What does work-life balance mean? How do you find work-life
balance?
9. What is the worst job, in your opinion?
