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Nowadays many people choose to be self-employed, rather than to work for a company or organisation. Why might this be the case? What could be the disadvantages of being self-employed?Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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It has become quite prevalent nowadays that
people
 prefer choosing to be self-employed compared with working for
a
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 enterprise or organisation.
Discussion
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 now centres on whether there could be any disadvantages of being self-employed. There might be 2 reasons for the trend.
Firstly
, with the development of the society, life has become better and
people
 especially
younger
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 generation which we called Z-generation
persue
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pursue
 more of value
fullfilments
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fulfilment
fulfilments
fulfillments
 than
stable
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a stable
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job
 for
living
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a living
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. As
Masro
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Macro
Mauro
 has mentioned in his demanding model, after satisfying the basic living needs including food and
sense
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 of safety,
people
 will go for their spiritual needs. I have a friend named Cica, she gave up the
job
 in the top
company
 and chose to be a tidy consultant because she felt tired of the monotonous work without any
sense
 of
achievents
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achievements
achievement
 even though the salary is considerable.
However
, after she became self-employed as a consultant, she
has
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found her mission
for
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in
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 life- each
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time
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tine
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after
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she
has
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finished a consultant case, she has a strong
sense
 of satisfaction. Another reason is that
people
 would like to have
a
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better control of their time
instead
 of a routine timeline for each. Especially for those young mothers who have babies but with no other
people
 like their parents to help them take care
the
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 babies. If working in a
company
, one has to follow the
company
schedule
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 to go to work in the
moring
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morning
 and get off work in the evening. You cannot control your time at least during the day.
Thus
 life-work cannot
effectively
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balance
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. Another friend of mine, Jenny,
she
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has a baby who is in a bad health condition and has to go to hospital frequently. So she has to quit
the
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job
 and became a self-employed
vblogger
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blogger
,
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 so that she could take care of her baby.
Eventhouogh
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Even though
 advantages like flexibility，better work-life balance etc. are obvious for self-employed, there are still disadvantages that are hidden behind it.
Firstly
,
people
 who are self-employed
has
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 to take the risks of the projects and deal with the relationship with their clients all by themselves, which means that the responsibilities become larger.
Secondly
, it is not like a stable
job
 that can provide
salary
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 constantly every month, the income is not very stable for self-employed
people
. Sometimes in
good
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season
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 the income might be high,
instead
 in a bad season
for example
, during the quarantine period because of the pandemic, most
people
 who are self-employed have no income. Overall. There are more and more
people
 choosing to be self-employed
instead
 of working in a
company
 for the reasons like more free time, achieving a
sense
 of value regardless of the disadvantages behind it.
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The easiest paragraph to write in an essay is the conclusion paragraph. This is because the paragraph mostly contains information that has already been presented in the essay – it is just the repetition of some information written in the introduction paragraph and supporting paragraphs.

The conclusion paragraph only has 3 sentences:

  • Summary
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  • Prediction or recommendation

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  • To summarize
  • Finally
  • In a nutshell
  • In general

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • self-employment
  • freelancing
  • entrepreneurship
  • autonomy
  • financial stability
  • work-life balance
  • financial insecurity
  • lack of support
  • resources
  • long working hours
  • uncertain income
  • job security
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