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  • Junwei Yang
    University: Zhejiang University
    Nationality: China
    September 17, 2020 at 11:49 am

    Our lifelong well-being is closely associated with the quality of our jobs. Most of us give the high prioriy to our future job prospects. There is a heated discussion on whether people should catch a secure job immediately or wait for a possibly better job. From my point of view, the former is better.

    We can avoid the loss of opportunities if we catch a secure job right away. When there is a fantastic opportunity appearing, the best action is to immediately take advantage of it rather than hesitate and lose the opportunity. Take my cousin, who is major in computer science, as an example. When he graduated, he got an offer that corresponded with his interest and advantages very well in a computer technology company. However, he took into account the low salary, deciding to wait for a job that would be more satisfying. Once he missed such an opportunity, he could never found a suitable job anymore. Since those jobs didn’t meet with my cousin’s interest and their salaries were equally low at the beginning.

    Some may argue that sometimes waiting for a while can truly offer us a more satisfying job and a better opportunity. However, they ignore to take one important fact into account. It is not the privilege of jobs but our passion and capability of jobs that make a great difference. For example, if my cousin had chosen the job he truly loved at first, he would have been motivated to work hard and pursued his achievement continuously. Then due to his hard work and talent in IT, he would have gotten promotions and acquired higher salaries. An opportunity which seems not good enough can be turned into a wonderful opportunity if we catch it at the appropriate time and devote ourselves to it.

    Taking into consideration all factors discussed above, a conclusion can be easily drawn that it is a better choice to catch a secure job opportunity right away than to wait for a possibly more satisfying job.

    Junwei Yang
    University: Zhejiang University
    Nationality: China
    June 29, 2020 at 12:33 am

    Honesty is one of the most precious virtues of human beings. Someone takes it for granted that always telling the truth is the most important consideration in any relationship between people. But I disagree with this statement.

    Sometimes people tell lies for protecting other people. Revealing the truth can be very cruel to someone. In this case, telling a lie to him/her is a better choice. Because this lie will keep him/her from hurting by some brutal truth and eventually this lie will improve the relationship between each other. We call this lie people tell out of kindness as “white lie”. For example, one day your beloved friend asks you if she has gotten a bit slimmer recently. You know recently she has tried very hard to reduce her weight and went back and forth between her dormitory and gym every day, but you still couldn’t see any changes on her figure. At that moment, you tend to tell her a white lie rather than tell her the brutal truth directly. You will say,” Oh, darling, it makes a difference and you look prettier now!” Your kind lie cheers her up and encourages her to keep working. Also, your relationship is consolidated.

    Second, it is unavoidable for people to tell some lies. That is because liying is the mechanism which helps us to protect ourselves and better survive, rejecting such natural mechanism completely is unrealistic. For instance, in some social situations, it’s impossible for everyone to show his happiness and open his mind to us heartly and honestly. Sometimes we have difficulty judging whether this guy is trustworthy, so at this time we tell lies for the purpose of protecting ourselves. If we always tell sincere words from our deepest heart to every person and neglect to do some prevention, we’re easily be used by some bad guys.

    Taking into consideration all of the factors discussed above, sometimes it’s a wise choice for us not to tell the truth for protecting other people and ourselves.