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Mandarin Language Skills will be needed in the near future:
Airlines selling Beijing tickets
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaiian Airlines is selling tickets for its first-ever direct flight to China.
The airline plans to launch nonstop service from Honolulu to Beijing on April 16. It will operate the flight three times a week.
Hawaiian said Tuesday it will fly Airbus A330 airplanes on the route. The airplane seats nearly 300 passengers.
The Hawaii Tourism Authority previously estimated the new service will generate $81 million in annual visitor spending and more than $8 million in tax revenue for Hawaii.
Air China plans to be the first airline to fly nonstop between Beijing and Hawaii when it launches direct service from the Chinese capital to Honolulu in January.
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Knowledge of languages in growing markets is always in demand. Anyone who can speak Japanese, Korean and/or Mandarin has a great shot at getting hired at Hawaiian, and also at lots of other employers. The beauty of learning a foreign-language is that all human kids are innately wired to do it, they just have to start early enough. Mastering a second language is a great skill to tip things in your favor, especially today. It also makes your kids smarter. (Check out "Why Bilingual Brains Rock":
http://youtu.be/rhpVd30AJaY)
We raised both our kids bilingually, and both are gainfully employed today.
Tim
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions--Confucius
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your job is to find your passion then pour your heart into it
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Why following your passion isn't always a great idea:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cal-newpor...50869.html
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Besides... what if your passion is sitting on your lazy butt or watching porn all day?
Sorry, but people get paid for their work exactly because it's something they DON'T want to do. If they loved it they probably wouldn't care about the money.
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Pander75,
One of the greatest gifts in life is to have work that you love, but no matter how much I may love what I do for work 190 days a year, like most people, I have bills to pay and the need to save for the day when I am too old to work in my profession, which means I do care about the money. Maybe in some idealized airy fairy world out there, people who do work they enjoy can do it for free, but in the real world everyone I know also has to make money, it just really improves your life if you like the work you do for money. The best advice my mother ever gave me about career choices was this: Find something you really like to do, then get really good at it! It is not enough to be passionate about what you do, you also have to be good at it.
In our society, money is how we reward people; when I was a crafts person the greatest compliment ever paid to me was not when someone walked past my booth and said how beautiful my work was, it was when someone pulled a hard earned 20 dollar bill out of their packet and gave it to me so they could have a piece of my work. Words are cheap, but money that represented 2 or 3 hours of work out of someone's life, that meant something, and it helped me feed my kids and pay my bills.
Back to the original topic: x-ray techs only need 2 years of school and as the Puna population grows and grows older, we will need more of them, any medical technicians really. Respiratory techs can make $100,000 a year within 3 years of getting out of school, although maybe not in Puna, heavy equipment mechanics are in demand here, so are diesel mechanics, lava is hard on that equipment.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
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A real luxury to be able to make a living off one's "passion." Most people don't have that luxury, but great if you can pull it off.
The next best thing is to do a job you don't hate and enjoy your passion on the side, maybe even make some side money. I've got lots of talented musician friends who do just that.
But you can't go wrong if you bring passion TO EVERY JOB YOU DO. Passion begets passion and you grow and accumulate knowledge and skills. And if you're lucky, you might one day stumble onto a calling that FUELS your passions. That's what happened to me in my early 40s, but I really had to work hard to get to that place. Now I'm doing what I love. And if I hit the lottery tomorrow, I have no doubt that I WOULD do my current job for free. But as Carol points out, you gotta be practical.
Tim
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions--Confucius
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I've been lucky to be able to follow my passion(s) in life - I've also lived in a lot of sub standard housing while getting good at it.
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we could sure use more doctors!
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Can't say that my jobs provided me with a passion for them. But, over my 40 years of working to support myself, I think there were 5 jobs. One lasted 24 years before I quite to change professions. Two were very early crappy jobs just to make a living. One, the company went out of business after me working there 5 years. My last job, I took because of my life long passion of riding motorcycles, and I got a job at a Harley-Davidson dealer. Pretty low pay and long hard work, but enjoyable in some ways. So, I worked to pay the bills and always had medical and dental coverage for myself, my Wife and our two kids. My policy was, no kids till we were stable with decent income, insurance, and were over the lean years.
One who finds a job in a field that they are passionate about, and that pays at least pretty decent with good job security is a lucky one indeed. I think my son will be among that group.
Jon in Keaau/HPP
Jon in Keaau/HPP
