My Future profession

Choosing the kind of career is probably one of the most important decisions in our life. There are many interesting and useful professions and it’s really not an easy task to make the right choice.

I’m convinced that everybody is interested in establishing oneself in life. Work is an opportunity to plan and order our life. The career sounds interesting to me if I can get a prestigious profession, good working conditions and steady wages.

I originally became interested in the sphere of communication in my early teens. Telecommunications have brought us new lifestyle. Satellite television, electronic mail, fax, Internet, cellular telephones have changed the way we communicate, get and exchange information. Work, social life, politics, education-telecommunications are coming everywhere and provide new unique opportunities. New millennium will bring us to new horizons of social, political and economic interaction in the virtual world of modern telecommunicating.

Choosing the Higher State College of Communication I did a lot of thinking about the things I like to do and do well. I thought over my future employment and chances of promotion. One of the main principles of education in our college is to unite theory and practice. So we have lectures, seminars, laboratory works and practice. I want my skills to be in great demand. It’s a matter of responsibility with me to do a good job, to apply my knowledge.

I realize that we live in a competitive world and I try to face the situation realistically. My parents always encourage me. I hope that after graduating from the college I will be able to get a suitable job which will satisfy my priorities.

Vocabulary

Career - занятие, профессия To establish - устраивать(ся) Steady - постоянный, надежный Wages - зарплата Originally - первоначально Cellular - сотовый Satellite - спутник

Millennium - тысячелетие Interaction - взаимодействие Virtual - фактический, виртуальный Skill - умение, мастерство Apply - применять Encourage - ободрять, помогать Priority - приоритет

Radio in Our Life

Nowadays it is impossible to imagine our life without radio, television, computer, telephone. We use telecommunication services practically every minute. And often we do not think about huge and powerful telecommunication industry that embraces the whole globe with its networks.

Communicating by radio is a method of sending or receiving sounds and data through the air by means of electrical waves. Radio is widespread for its portability. It can be easily carried around.

We use the airwaves for many purposes broadcasting most of our local and national radio and TV stations, in our mobile radio and telephone services, and to communicate on a global scale through distant satellites, which act as a kind of reflector in the sky, redirecting the information we send up to them.

The first regularly scheduled radio broadcasts began in the U.S. in 1920. Expansion of both audience and transmission facilities continued rapidly. Radio is generally the first of news media to report a local story or a news service bulletin, weather forecasting or traffic information.

Another important use of this means of communicating is in shipping. A ship that is in difficulty can call the nearest coast station, giving details of its situation and, if necessary, ask for help. We call this 'ship-to-shore' radio. Radio can ensure greater safety in navigation (for example, to warn of bad weather or of hazards in the shipping lanes) and it enables large amounts of information to be sent over land or water without the support of several hundred kilometres of wires and cables. Radio networks can, therefore, be cheaper to install but often have fewer circuits than cable links. Radar systems also enable air-traffic controllers to follow and guide the flight paths of planes from take-off to landing.

Radio-paging systems enable us to be contacted even though we do not have a telephone within easy reach. It is a way of letting us know that something important has just happened and that we must act quickly. It’s cheaper to have a pager than a cellular telephone. The system works through a pager or 'bleeper', a small receiver about the size of a packet of cigarettes, which you can keep in your ocket. When people want to contact you, they simply pick up the nearest telephone, dial your personal paging number free of charge, and wherever you are in the coverage area, your pager will bleep (You must, however, be above, not below, ground level, for the signal will not get through if you are underground.) The bleeping informs you that someone is calling you. You can identify up to four callers on some types of equipment. The most modem type of radio-pager displays the number of the telephone the caller is ringing from. The main advantage of radio-paging is that you can be contacted wherever you are, even though you may be a long way from a telephone set. At present you can send messages to a pager through Internet.

Many companies which have personnel on business trips have found that radio-paging improves their competitive position and allows them to be more responsive to a lot of their customers' needs. It also increases company efficiency by cutting out many unnecessary and expensive journeys that are sometimes made by salesmen. This saves time and fuel costs. Doctors can be contacted immediately and return to their surgery or hospital, thus possibly saving the life of a very sick patient.