my weekly musings

Everyone has pondered about starting a business  at least once in their life . Being your own boss, possibly getting rich and living your dream life sounds like the answer to all our problems. However, it is no piece of cake, as it takes dedication and determination. A succesful business to me is one which gives you a  long term  financial profit, one which enables you to employ other people so you are not the only one benefiting from it, and one that grows exponentially and is not stuck progress-wise.  After browsing the web, I found other people's opinion's on what is a successful business and what is not: A successful business, according to Goldman and Nalebuff, has to do with something you believe in, because this is what will get you through hard times. It is also full of compromise, except on the "big things": it should alway follow the "core values" you have chosen but it has to be flexible everywhere else. In another site, David Ingram said tha...

October 22, 2018 Dear Marco, As you know, I have started my second year of English philology, and so far so good. However, the level has definitely increased and the classes are much more demanding than the first year. Thus, I have to be actively involved in the lectures and I spend quite a bit of my time after class to be up to date. Thoughout these months I have discovered methods to do so. Since you're interested in boosting your level a bit,  I can come up with a couple of different ways you can improve you English too! To start off, you should  to establish a timetable to be more productive and organise your goals accordingly. Leave some time to study the theoretical parts such as vocabulary and grammar, but most importantly find dynamic ways to practice what you learn.  What I recommend the most is watching films in the original score, listening to tons of music and specially getting out there and practicing with native speakers. There is a really inter...

My worst job would be working as a maid of some sort or in a cleaning service. If I already struggle with keeping my apartment tidy, I cannot fathom having to do that as a full time (or even part-time) job. Furthermore, cleaning jobs always involve sweeping and mopping the floor and deep-cleaning the bathroom, which are the tasks that I hate to do the most in my personal life. I would rather do any other job in the world than work as a cleaning lady. When talking with my grandparents about  the job conditions of their time, I realised that we benefit from many improvements nowadays. To contextualise a bit, my grandparents' careers took place after the Spanish civil war, where Francoism was in full swing and Spain was invaded by poverty and opression. According to them, working conditions were quite precarious: manual workers (in the fields or in the cities) did not wear a helmet or gloves all the time, and they did not have any kind of insurance that covered accidents....

In order to deal with the first point of this entry, I selected the article "10 Things You Can Do Today to Improve your Life", which I found on the website psychcentral.com Here is the link (last accessed 9/10): https://psychcentral.com/lib/therapists-spill-10-things-you-can-do-today-to-improve-your-life/ The expressions related to advice that we can find in this text are: I suggest Consider... The solution is... The rest of elements that can, perhaps, be related to advice are simply the verbs used. I nfinitives are used to indicate what the enquirer should do, according to the writer's criteria. Some examples from the text are: Identify what's keeping you stuck; Stop; Look; Listen; Get to bed earlier; Create an intention, etc. ..................... For the second part of this blogpost, I chose an article called "How to gracefully decline a job offer". The link is below  (last accessed 9/10): https://www.thecut.com/article/how-...

To be or not to be in the public eye? As a person who doesn't like being the centre of attention, I can assure you that I wouldn't like to be in the public eye. In the following text, I will illustrate my reasoning. First of all, I would have no privacy nor peace. Each and every holiday or time off would be invaded with paparazzi swarming about, taking pictures and recording my every move. Whether they camp outside my house get a sneak peek of my daily life or snap pictures of my figure while I'm having a nice break at the beach, it sounds horrific and would deeply disturbs my peace of mind. Twisting it even more, I might even have to deal with stalkers that follow me around or insane people that are obsessed with me and are very threatening. I'd rather keep my treasured privacy, which is essential in order to maintain a good quality of life. Secondly, I would be bombarded with constant criticism and speculation. Everyone will have an opinion about me, ...