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新职业英语 职业综合英语2-Unit8 ppt Warm-1 Warm-2 Self-employed As an Employee Advantages Advantages Disadvantages Disadvantages 2, 4, 10, 12, 14 1, 6, 8, 9 7, 11 3, 5, 13 You can enjoy more comfortable working conditions. You can choose who to work with. You can take pleasure in a low-risk and consistent environment. You may enjoy a feeling of good fellowship at work. You have concerns about various operational costs You have to maintain a positive relationship with the boss no matter what kind of person he is. Reading A Text Task 1 Task 2 Business Know-how Text A-1 1 Rich Aberman and Bill Clerico faced a tough decision as they approached the end of their senior year at Boston College. Start an innovative online-payment processing business, or start graduate school and a new job? Risk It When Young 2 In the end, they decided to go the safe route—Aberman set out for law school at New York University and Clerico took a job as an investment banker—and they promised themselves that they’d soon get back to start their business. But all too quickly, they saw themselves getting sucked into the workaday world and their entrepreneurial ambitions slipping away. 3 “It only gets harder to start a company as time goes on,” says Aberman, 25. “As you get used to a salary, you start getting comfortable with a certain lifestyle, which makes it hard to leave for the uncertainty of being an entrepreneur.” Text A-2 4 Clerico was worried that if he tried starting a company and failed, he would be six months out of school with no relevant job experience or tangible success. “In hindsight, I think that was a dumb fear,” says Clerico, 24. “You can always go and get an entry-level job.” 5 So after just a few months, they changed course: Aberman left law school and Clerico quit his job, and they founded WePay, an online system for groups to manage their funds. They scraped by on income from odd jobs—Aberman taugh