[多项选择] What do you like most or least about your work (What do you like most about your work What did you like best about your experience at the firm)

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a．I am a training officer. My job is to run and provide training courses for customers and agents.
The thing I enjoy most about my work is being able to have direct contact with customers and direct knowledge of the sort of problems they encounter and how to resolve them.
b．The things I don’t enjoy so much is that I feel that I tend to be spending a lot of time either teaching or preparing training material, and I don’t get enough chance to do hands-on programming that I would like to do. I do have to have the skills of programming but what I don’t get the opportunity to do at the moment is to actually use them to develop real applications for customers, I’m just showing other people how to do it.
c．Generally speaking, I enjoy my job. I enjoy the company that I work for. It’s a very good environment, a very stimulating environment.
d．I’m a systems administrator. I deal with the systems administration for a company. This is a trouble-shooting kind of job. There are all kinds of responsibilities, such as back-up of data, installation of new machines, installation of the operating system and the installation of the product that the company actually produces. It’s quite a challenge, because there are such a variety of problems: sometimes it’ll be a loose cable on a machine that’s a problem, another time it’ll take hours to solve. I think the nice part of system administration is the challenge. Sometimes it’s very quiet, but on the other hand you can have a day when it’s completely hectic and all kinds of different problems come up. So you’re always being confronted with different problems, which is nice. The things I don’t enjoy are the routine back-ups of all the data; these take a bit of time. The other thing that I don’t quite like is the out of hours concept of system administration, because the best time to actually fix problems is when people aren’t working, which means that ideally we should do that after six when everybody’s gone home, so, yes, we can be here until the early hours of the morning at the extreme.
e．I’m the group accountant for a company. I’m responsible for the day-to-clay accounting for the group, covering financial management, management accounting, cash books, purchase ledger, sales ledger, credit control and so on. Virtually every day you’ve got a different kind of job to tackle, it’s always without exception urgent. I’m always up against deadlines and therefore I’m never bored. I find the whole of finance fascinating anyway and the whole exercise is very, very interesting. It’s not very pleasant being difficult, or having to be difficult with people to get money out of them. I don’t particularly like doing that.
f．I wish at times I was a little bit more busier. I have to wait for people to generate work for me, as working within the international business development group most of the people actually work in other countries, because they’re not generating the work for me back in the office, they generate the work when they’re back in the office for me to deal with.
g．I’m an area sales manager. It’s just a glorified sales representative. My responsibilities are: traveling, or going around visiting shops, monitoring the shopping trend; answering queries from customers about sales and planning the next business trip. My trips usually last about a couple of weeks and I go mostly to America and Europe. The job is fairly badly paid, but the fact that I get free trips to the foreign countries more or less of my choice for most of the year does in some measure recompense for that. Sometimes, you may feel frustrating or annoying about the job, especially when customers leave one waiting for half an hour or so. I have been known to get my own back on customers who leave me waiting simply by selling them twice as much as I know they need. It’s not a trick that I would recommend using all too often, but on the whole the frustrations of the job are minimal. Traveling abroad is perhaps the most-rewarding experience to me.
h．I’m a manager of the department called the Banking and Portfolio Department for a large multi-national corporation. The responsibility of the department is to handle all the banking matters, such as relationship, credit issues, opening and closing accounts, etc. We also manage the investment of the company’s excess funds. The best thing about it is that you get to take decisions at a relatively low management level in the company. You get to watch the decisions come, follow through, and you get to see the effect on the bottom-line profit of the company. One of the things I find the most frustrating is that the company is still very bureaucratic. We tend to produce a lot of paper work and reports that don’t seem to have any fit with today’s company business. And they’ve generated for years and we continue to generate them because management has asked for them. We are attempting to change that but it continues to be a source of frustration for my staff and myself.
i．I’m a commercial lender at the Great Wall Corporation, which is a commercial bank in a suburb of Shanghai with assets of about $E00 million. Bank of China in the city of Shanghai, which has assets of about $H. I billion, has recently purchased it. We are very much a community-oriented bank and my lending will be diverse. . . err. . . working with individuals, making mortgages and home construction loans as well as making personal loans and business and industrial loans. So very much of a general-purpose broad area of lending.
What is enjoyable about what I do is the opportunity to work with the owners of companies in the area and with professional people that reside in the community. I’m working with owners of steel companies, with popcorn producers, with individuals that make washers for many purposes. And it allows me the variety of work that working at a large multi-billion bank does not have to offer, as you’ll be working in narrow job description handling one type of lending.
Some of the frustrations with the job are restrictions as to what you can do or not do for a customer, as many of the requests that we receive are either too small or too large for us to handle and at that point we don’t really have the product to sell them, we have to defer them to our competition.
j．I’m a receptionist and I deal with incoming mail and people, which are the most important part of my job. Dealing with people, I think, is possibly the most enjoyable part of it. I also send e-mails and faxes. The most enjoyable part about my job is meeting people. There are people from all over the country, all over the world, all walks of life, which is the most interesting part of my job. OK, people can be very irritating but they can be very nice as well, and I think the nice ones outnumber the irritating ones really. It’s a very people- orientated job. It’s communication, whether it be with e-mail or fax and that can all be fun as well if you’re having problems getting through and finding out why the same way that sometimes you’re trying to send a fax to someone and you get some poor soul in the Middle East speaking Arabic or something that you unfortunately have got a wrong number but it’s all part of the job and it’s fun. You don’t often get annoying people face to face. You get more annoying people over the telephone, because people feel that they can say things to you over the phone that they perhaps wouldn’t say to you to your face. The same way that we perhaps say things to people over the phone that we wouldn’t say to their face, because I think you can communicate far easier than over the phone. One needs to balance work and personal life. If a man/woman feels he/she can balance work and home, then he/she’s much likely to stay at a company.
k．I am a personal assistant to the executive director. I really like my job because it’s interesting. But I don’t have so much opportunity to use my English. I hate time-waster. It’s understandable that people may get together sometime for a drink. But running on empty is what I like least about my work.
l. I like my work very much because I am doing something I love. I like everything I am doing right now. It is a dream coming true to be able to contribute everything I have learnt in school and in real life to the community.
m．The people I work with, and the responsibilities. I like people, responsibility, and exposure, in that order.
n．The most enjoyable things I’d like to do is getting to know people in a variety of fields with a wide scope of personalities. And I also like creating, sharing and building a brand.
o．Variety and being actively coached by fellow consultants. I learned a lot from mistakes I made and everyone I worked with. If I had navigated around those experiences I would have learned a lot less.
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