About your life...4 questions?

Question

1. Some people say that people achive success by their own hard work; others say that luck and help form other people are more important. Which do you think is more important?

2. Do you agree or disagree with this statement : If you work hard in this country, eventually you will get ahead.

3. On the whole, how satisfied are you with the life you lead? Would you say that you are very satisfied, fairly, not very, or not at all satisfied?

4. In the course of the next five years, do you expect your personal situation to improve, to stay about the same, or to get worse?

Those questions are for a paper at school...thank you for helping me. And, if possible, put your age.

Thank you all so much.

Answer 1

1. Combination- Hard work will get you so far in life, but sometimes just being in the right place at the right time can be crucial.

2. Any idiot can work his/her @$$ off their whole life. It takes a true genius to make it through life without working. To be truly successful is to be content.
If you work hard in this country AT BEING SUCCESSFUL you will get ahead. That said, go work at a restaurant for $6.50 an hour and see how hard you are working. But you never get ahead... perhaps management... but is that really getting ahead?

3. Fairly satisfied. I've accomplished a lot of goals, and abandoned a few that I deemed unnecessary. I have sacrificed, so I can't say I'm 100% satisfied, but for the most part- I'm pretty happy.

4. I expect it to change. For it to get better or worse, I would need to see it in a position of being dissatisfied in general. I think it will improve in some areas, and maybe post some new hurdles.

I'm 28.

Answer 2

14 years.

1. I belive both play factors in the rough game of life. Hard work is a more sure way of getting what you want, but I often tend to fall on luck because I'm lazy. However, I will work hard if I have to.

2. For some people, but factors like racism and sexism often prevent people from making it big. People I know managed to make it in the States, but they worked hard and spent years to get where they are.

3. I'm very satisfied. I'm living quite comfortably and writing my books and maybe games.

4. Perhaps. The future is a dark path that you can hardly see through. I'm no fortune-teller, even for my own life.

Answer 3

Hi, Loana,
1. Hard work, definitely.
2. I would agree, IF the person is legitimately working within the framework of our laws and societal mores.
3. I'm "fairly satisfied," but I still want to learn and do lots more things.
4. I expect my life (that's what "personal situation" means, isn't it?) to improve significantly in the next five years.
5. I'm over 20 and under 60.
Best of luck with your paper!

Answer 4

1) I think luck. You can work hard and not get noticed or recognized for your hard work or you can end up in the right place and the right time which ends up making you successful.

2) Disagree.

3) Very satisfied.

4) Improve (I'm always trying to improve myself one way or another).

Answer 5

1- Hard work and making opportunities to happen. Not luck ( I don't believe in it Isaiah 65:11). Just identifying those opportunities and working with them will make you successful.

2- If you work hard in ANY country, eventually you will get ahead...yes.

3- I'm very satisfied with my life.

4- My situation will improve for the best...every year!

Answer 6

1. Luck is more important. Luck can even affect how capable you are of the particular kind of hard work you would need to do, as well as your opportunities to find it and to do it effectively.

2 Disagree. Millions of people work their butts off and never "get ahead." You are more likely to get ahead by being a schmoozer and a gambler than by just putting your nose to the grindstone - you can work yourself to disability in a dead end job, and never get ahead. You are most likely to get ahead if you have a combination of ability, shrewdness, determination, and a headstart. The headstart consists in having avoided being conditioned to limit your own expectations, and in practical terms, it almost always consists in being born into wealth.

3 Get worse, mainly because my husband's field is computer programming and I feel the quality of employment available to him is sharply declining where we live. I could be wrong - maybe he'll write a piece of software that Microsoft will want to buy.

I'm thirty-five. By the way, I recommend that if you must take a position in this paper, you should espouse the idea that initiative counts more than luck, because that's what they want to hear. Yes, that's cynical, but I am 99% sure they'd mark you better for that than for a subtle, brilliant analysis revealing the depressingly large role of luck.

Answer 7

1. It more important to know somebody to open doors for you. Bush is an example. (he doesn't strike me as a hard worker)

2. Disagree, I see people working very hard at McDonalds everyday and they don't seem to be getting very far.

3. Fairly satisfied, id rather be rich

4. to improve. I just consolidate my student loans, my crdit score should be going way up ... lol.

Answer 8

1. Hard work is much more important
2. Agree
3. Satisfied
4. About the same

Answer 9

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