WORK AND POSSIBILITIES (as submitted to Planetary Magazine)

Submitted by Luciana Pimentel on Wednesday, October 20, 2004 at 10:49:27 AM EST.

Our names are Raphael Ohana and Pedro Santos, we are Brazilian students. We do a lot of extra courses after school time, like guitar lessons, spanish, engineering production at PUC, working out, and other things. There is a year left to complete high school, since we are in the second grade, to the university entrance exams. Even though we have some expectations for the future, it helps us set up priorities.
Scenic arts and history research have always been big interests. These subjects have a growing market, with the support of some private companies and government. Even so, the working conditions in the Brazilian scenario are not very good. There are fine universities for the study of this subject, even public ones, and they have good teachers and fine methodology.
In this sense, the mixing option between interest and money is law. We like writing and reading and also have parents who are lawyers. The market is promising, you can have a lot of career options, from a company lawyer to a judge. There are lots of public and private universities added to the career, all of them with very good teachers, especially the public ones. The resources are better in private ones, because Brazilian government has some money problems. The corruption is the main cause of that.
As you can see, we have to make choices taking into consideration money and passion. In the private schools we are well prepared for our future, but hardwork is needed from all of us. After finishing and while at university, we hope to have a nice job, it is perfectly possible. However things are not easy for anyone.

Raphael Ohana
Pedro Santos
class I22

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