My decision
Nov 16th 2009 03:33
Recently, I've decided to become an actuary. Actuaries work for insurance companies, analyze risks and make insurance products. I heard that actuary is a famous job in the US, but not well known in Japan.
Now I 'm a first year doctor course student, and my major is math. My future plan used to be to become a professor in college or a teacher in high school.
In Japan, we have to take the teacher-training course to obtain the license. I had been taking the course, but my interest for the job have gone out. A professor's way of organizing his class is so unacceptable to me that I had become to hate his class, him, then the teacher-training course. Thus I quit taking the course.
I know I should have hang in there, but I realized that I might not have wanted to be a teacher sincerely.
Anyway, my mind has been changed. I have been trying to an actuary. Since my plan includes working for foreign-affiliated companies, I will study English harder than before.
Now I 'm a first year doctor course student, and my major is math. My future plan used to be to become a professor in college or a teacher in high school.
In Japan, we have to take the teacher-training course to obtain the license. I had been taking the course, but my interest for the job have gone out. A professor's way of organizing his class is so unacceptable to me that I had become to hate his class, him, then the teacher-training course. Thus I quit taking the course.
I know I should have hang in there, but I realized that I might not have wanted to be a teacher sincerely.
Anyway, my mind has been changed. I have been trying to an actuary. Since my plan includes working for foreign-affiliated companies, I will study English harder than before.
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I admit that I am biased, since I love teaching, and dislike working for a corporation intensely (I have done both).
I had an extremely bad chemistry teacher in high school who single-handedly killed any interest I might have had in becoming a natural scientist, so I am very aware of the power of a bad teacher.
Anyway, I hope you ended up making the right choice for yourself, however it happened. がんばってください。
I'm so upset right now. All of you "native English speakers" do not know how to write a coherent, grammatically correct English sentence. You are confounding grammatical terms and giving erroneous advice. Stop it. Look something up before you say it. Be careful with grammatical jargon; you will confuse your reader, who may actually know whatever attempted grammatical term you attempted to use refers to.
Tony, there is no such grammatical term as an apposite clause. You probably meant an appositive, which according to Bryan Garner's American Usage, is a "phrase that points out the same person or thing by a different name" (Garner 56). e.g. "My brother, Brad, is a musician." You also confounded the distinction between a clause, which has both a subject and a noun and can sometimes stand on its own, and a phrase, which has one or the other but not both, and therefore cannot stand on its own. What you in fact wrote was a adverbial phrase. Tommy, when you take advice from this site, unless it is someone you can absolutely trust, take the advice with a grain of salt. Most of these people are not correcting your sentences; rather, they are replacing one solecism with another.
Tommy-san,
Brian-san is quite right; I did not describe the change that I suggested in your second sentence correctly, and I apologize for this. I will try to be more careful in the future when I use grammatical terms.
As for Brian-san's other comments, I feel that they are unwarranted and I have told him so in a private message. I happen to be a very skillful writer in English, and many people here have felt that they benefited considerably from the comments I wrote on their journal entries.
It is worth noting that Brian-san apparently wrote "Most of these people are not correcting your sentences; rather, they are replacing one solecism with another" after looking at one entry; in any case, this seems to have been the first entry that he wrote a comment on, according to the site statistics. Perhaps Brian-san has some other source of information on what "most people" are doing here.