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Some people prefer to work for themselves or own a business. Others prefer to work for an employer. Would you rather be self-employed, work for someone else, or own a business? Use specific reasons to explain your choice.

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It is true that certain people and myself included are in between two minds whether to
work
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 for
others
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,
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 or to
work
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 for themselves,
such
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 as being
a
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self-employed, working online as a freelance or
run
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running
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 their own
business
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. I would prefer to
work
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 for myself rather than
working
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 for
others
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 for many reasons, in the following essay I am going to explain my point of view.
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 with, the personal ambition for anyone of us is to achieve success in
his
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 career and
being
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 satisfied with
his
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 life,
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 following our passion by running our
business
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 even if it is a small shop or a humble project,
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 in my neighbourhood the vast majority of people in the same age of mine, have their own
work
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,
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 as small markets and crafts shops, they prefer
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 trend and some of them gaining money that they could not gain by working for
others
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.
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encouraging
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 me to follow my dream
by
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 running my own
business
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on the other hand
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, bad
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 conditions and injustice could be the reasons why people tend to
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 for themselves even if they would gain a little money.
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, in Egypt, youth who travel to
work
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 abroad have suffered from injustice happened by their employers outside,
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 as cutting their salaries without any
right
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, keeping them in dirty accommodations,
additionally
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 treating them like a machine
no
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with no
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 rest
no
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 vacations, they have been exploited for
long
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 time there,
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 most of them got back home and open their own
business
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 by the little money
the
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they
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 had saved from outside
work
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. In conclusion, it has been a controversial topic for a long time but it is up to the personal decision for each other, and I strongly support
to have
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 a small
business
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rather
rahter
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rather
 than working for
others
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    • Sentence 3 - Thesis
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    • Sentence 1 - Topic sentence
    • Sentence 2 - Example
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    • Sentence 1 - Topic sentence
    • Sentence 2 - Example
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