開催終了3月28日ギリホリ英会話
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2009年03月26日 01:35 更新
今週も土曜日に開催します。
【開催時間】15：00〜17：00
【開催場所】アルバーニー通り上にあるティムホートン（ビュートとサーローの間）
皆さんの参加お待ちしてます。
「初めての方へ」
このギリホリ英会話はメンバー皆で集まって英語でコミュニケーションをとるのが目的です。特に英会話のレベルなどは関係なく、英語を話す機会がもっと欲しいな〜とか、英語を話すのがすきという人はどんどん参加して下さい。
集合場所は基本的にコーヒーショップですので、学校の授業のように硬いものではなく、気軽に何でも話せるような雰囲気ですので、とにかく皆で楽しんでやっていきます。
流れとしては最初の45〜60分でお互い自己紹介をし、残りの60〜75分で用意されたトピックについて話し合う、といった感じです。
もし興味がある人は是非気軽に参加してください。ちなみに参加費などはなしで、コーヒーを飲みたい人は、コーヒーを自分で購入するのにお金がかかる程度です。
英会話の後にも、定期的に食事にいったり、ビリヤードしに行ったりと活動してます。皆で楽しみましょう！！
【連絡先】
ヒデカナックス携帯： 778-231-4855
ヒデカナックスメールアドレス：hidecanucks@gmail.com
※ 特に参加、不参加の電話連絡はいりません。
【開催時間】15：00〜17：00
【開催場所】アルバーニー通り上にあるティムホートン（ビュートとサーローの間）
皆さんの参加お待ちしてます。
「初めての方へ」
このギリホリ英会話はメンバー皆で集まって英語でコミュニケーションをとるのが目的です。特に英会話のレベルなどは関係なく、英語を話す機会がもっと欲しいな〜とか、英語を話すのがすきという人はどんどん参加して下さい。
集合場所は基本的にコーヒーショップですので、学校の授業のように硬いものではなく、気軽に何でも話せるような雰囲気ですので、とにかく皆で楽しんでやっていきます。
流れとしては最初の45〜60分でお互い自己紹介をし、残りの60〜75分で用意されたトピックについて話し合う、といった感じです。
もし興味がある人は是非気軽に参加してください。ちなみに参加費などはなしで、コーヒーを飲みたい人は、コーヒーを自分で購入するのにお金がかかる程度です。
英会話の後にも、定期的に食事にいったり、ビリヤードしに行ったりと活動してます。皆で楽しみましょう！！
【連絡先】
ヒデカナックス携帯： 778-231-4855
ヒデカナックスメールアドレス：hidecanucks@gmail.com
※ 特に参加、不参加の電話連絡はいりません。
コメント(1)
2009年03月27日 03:29
今週のトピックです。
Why do we work?
On the face of it, that's a stupid question. We work to put food on the table and a roof over our heads, of course. We work toward the prospect of children in college and ourselves in rocking chairs. In other words: we work because we have to.
TIME is running a series of stories called Why We Work in which we explore the question more deeply. I kicked things off with an article called The Zeal for the Job, in which I looked at people who change careers--and what that says about why we work.
As the deadline approached, I sent out a panicked e-mail to some friends with a "desperate plea" for leads on anybody they knew who had switched careers--a banker turned baker, a lawyer turned landscaper, a violinist turned victrola-maker.
I was amazed at the response. It turns out all sorts of people have played switcheroo with their careers, abandoning longtime and extremely successful work to do something completely else. My friend Karen's sister-in-law is a landscape architect who became a teacher. My friend Alan knows an oboist turned interior designer. My friend Gerry knew a teacher who he thought became a vintner, but when he checked it turned out the guy was less a winemaker than a wine drinker.
And those are the ones I didn't even profile.
The assignment really got me thinking. Working for the sake of putting Wonderbread on the table doesn't explain these people's careers. They were bringing home plenty of bacon before they decided to toss their pans aside. Sue Parks, a lovely lady whom I found through my friend Jane Haas (who herself is a journalist turned founder of Womansage.com), ditched her dazzling career as a traveling top executive to pursue her passion: walking.
She describes her epiphany to me thus:
I was leading this crazy lifestyle, working in Dallas for Kinko's and flying home to my husband in California. Between the hotels and airports, the one consistent theme was the walking. Everyone wondered how I stated fit and sane. I mean, I was eating out for every meal, getting on planes at 6 a.m., getting to the hotel at 6 p.m. What I did was everywhere I went, I put on my shoes and walked--outside, inside, in the airports. When I started trying to detertime what I wanted to do, that was my a-ha moment. This was my passion.
So that's the ticket, at least for Parks: she works for passion. The next step was figuring out just what to do with that passion. Parks settled on WalkStyles, a primarily Web-based company offering equipment, apparel and networks to walking enthusiasts.
Sure, she needs her new venture to succeed financially. If it doesn't, she may have to go back to working for Kinko's in retirement--maybe this time running the copier instead of the entire corporate operations.
But her current work means more to Parks than a paycheck. You can hear it in her voice. It goes all squeaky in excitement as she tells me about new products, partnerships, staffing, culture. She says to me:
It's a passion that comes from every bone in my body. It's a bit different than when I was talking about office culture. Now it's about developing a culture and a philosophy from scratch, about how we treat customers--it's all part of me. I've been so fortunate to work at great companies in my life. But this is different. It's in my fabric.
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