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Week 4 Writing Task --- **The hopes for our future careers** Written by **Liu Meiyu** 30/10/2006

The whole group feels that no matter what job we choose, either full of challenges or widening our knowledge and experiences are the most important aspects for our future job. Moreover, our major is English language, Translation, and Culture Studies, so most of the group members choose future jobs which are relevant to their major subjects.

However, everyone has the ability to have a dream of future life. For example, one member of our group has a great dream for his future career, that he wants to be a pilot. Although he doesn’t mention very clearly why he wants to be a pilot, I know many young men in China have the great future dream to be a hero as a pilot. But, just as he points out, because of the policy of the army in China, he has to change his old dream into another realizable career, which is also according to his own major subject, that is to be a diplomat. There are several reasons why he wants to be a diplomat. Firstly, as his major subject is Culture study and Translation between Chinese and English, he will study and try to understand the English culture and compare it with Chinese culture. Moreover, it contains so many aspects, such as language, arts, policy, customs, and economy and so on, which are good for laying a foundation for a diplomat. Secondly, he says that, as a boy or man, he likes the feeling that he can be an important person to benefit our compatriots and win the honors for our country. So he finds that to be a diplomat can become a career for him to achieve.

Besides being both full of challenges and widening my knowledge and experiences that a job can provide, I also want to have an ideal job with substantial salary which can provide me with a beautiful life, which is a bit different from him. As a result, I want to be one of the members of professional interpreter. And dreaming that someday I can become the bridge to exchange the western culture and eastern original culture as well. This is one of the major reasons why I am now studying abroad to learn the subject-English language, translation and cultural studies. I hope through this course, I can improve my English level and deeply comprehend and compare the British culture with my own culture.

However, the whole group thinks that it is hard for us to get to our future goal; and all of us need to struggle to the very end until reach it. First of all, we need to practise and practise to make our English more professional and idiomatic through daily exercises, such as reading newspapers, journals, and listening to the BBC news. Secondly, we should enrich the knowledge of politics, economy, culture and so on, not only the text books, and the courses that we learn.

In a word, the whole groups members are ready to fight, fight for our brilliant