dasha's blog

If you decide to switch from a full-time office job to freelancing you need to be prepared to alter a few things in the way you do your job. Those things are not directly related to your specialty. Say, if you are a web designer, you would not have to change anything in the way you create new designs for websites or you will not have to learn new techniques (unless you want to, and surely you always learn something new for your job anyway).

When it comes to a great many professions and occupations present in the modern world, I doubt that it is possible to name any profession that you can learn at school and practice that same occupation throughout your whole life without ever needing to learn additional knowledge and skills for it.

We call it further education, self-education, career development or skill upgrading. And we all know it is necessary, however very time-consuming and not always directly payable and simply painful at times, especially for those who already have family commitments or overwhelming job hours.

What is work? A job you do every day? If you try to decompose it into smaller pieces, what will you get in the end?

I wanted to share my view on this topic long ago, but apparently my laziness and some lack of time and general enthusiasm have prevented me from sitting down to note my ideas on the benefits and drawbacks of the formal University education.

Well, after I have gone through my 5-year course at Minsk State Linguistic University, I can well congratulate myself on completing a lengthy and rather tedious assignment. On the other hand I am now a proud possessor of a longed for diploma (a certificate with an A4 sheet of paper stating my grades for most of the subjects studied by me).