Vocabulary Assignment pp.

73-74
Melissa Vásquez

1. Livelihood: the way that people earn money to live.

2. Post: permanent jobs, with health insurance and other benefits.
3. Secure: Lifetime job, permanent job with the same company, stability.
4. Self-confidence: Believe in our own capacities and abilities
5. Upgrade:improve our skills.
6. Keep up with: achieve something
7. Telecommuting: work at home
8. Distract: difficulty focusing
9. Drawback: disadvantage
10. Leisure: recreational
11. Globalization:actions or processes that involve the entire world and result
in making something worldwide in scope
12. Flexible:adjust well to change
13. Rigid: not open to change
14. Workaholism: addiction to work

Previewing a Reading

1.The main topic is the changing career trends. Subtopics: Job security.
The effect of insecurity, job hopping, telecommuting, workaholism.
2.Pictures in the article tell us employment statistics, work environment.
Employees in the world.
3. Are we ready to telecommute with our current discipline and
organizational skills?
How can we identify if we are addicted to work?