Fed up

A student in class told me "teacher when you die, those of your generation, it will be the end of the world" I asked him the reason for this comment and he replied that it was because of climate change, the economic crisis, the war... Teenagers know and feel that they belong to the second generation that lives worse than the previous ones, which had never happened before. They consider a life without properties, without stability, without respecting their rights such as an own home. They do not have the future that their parents and grandparents had. They must live from day to day. We find boys and girls who do nothing. They go to school unmotivated. Others are super prepared to have subsistence salaries or go to countries more developed than ours. The majority who ask why and what to strive for something, not get an answer. They move to the immediacy of mobile phones or video games. Fed up for having created a catastrophe climate. This defeatism that these young people don't deserve. We cannot aspire to a better society if we cannot change the future. Let's talk about progress in the history of humanity. For example, civil engineering that has managed to convert inconspicuous deserts into crop fields. We have been eighty years without world wars. That this world, their world, will be better because it will be the one they wish.

 The importance of job and occupational guidance.

The boys and girls, who study Vocational Training in any center, receive quality technical training that allows them to enter the labor market properly as well as continue with their university studies if they so wish. They receive knowledge, theoretical and practical, of the corresponding subjects depending on the cycle they are studying. Obviously the subject of "Oral cavity hygiene" is totally different from the one of "Accountancy”'. But, in addition to the subjects of each vocational training, there are some others that are called transversal, because they are taught in all of them. One of them is "job and occupational guidance". It is composed of, depending on the specialty, two or three training units which are, the labor market, types of employment labor contracts, preparation of payroll sheets and the prevention of laborl hazards.

The subject is focused from a perspective of informing the student of:

- What the labor market is, its composition, tools for the search for employment.

- Rights and duties of workers, types of employment labor contracts, types of severance pay.

- Education and compliance with the labor risk prevention law, protection plans, individual protection elements, contents of a first aid kit and a minimum of first aid.

The subject should be focused on using all the didactic tools as powerpoint presentations, explanatory videos of the teachers posted on the platform, videoconferences that are recorded to be watch in any time, the book of the subject and different activities to be carried out by the students that are punctually corrected by the e-teacher with the consequent solution posted at the time. The present of teaching is the blended of face-to-face classes and online work

We firmly believe in the importance of this subject because students will not only have to apply some skills acquired during their years of study, but they will also have knowledge which will allow them to have some tools to look for a job, knowing that their legal situation is right in that company, understanding and verifying that their payrolls are well done and a minimum knowledge of health and safety in their professional activity in order to prevent accidents and occupational diseases.

Ernest Casa Ribé

Professor Administration and Finance

Training tutor in work centers

 

Business ethics.

 

 

The boys and girls who study Intermediate Training Cycles must receive quality technical training that allows them to adequately enter the labor market as well as continue comfortably with higher degree studies. They receive knowledge of subjects such as accounting, treasury, computer science and English, among others. But in addition to these, there should be another that not only trains students, but also educates them. This is business ethics, an interdisciplinary subject as it covers the rest of the Cycle curriculum.

The subject “Business Ethics” focuses from a work perspective, leading the student to learn a series of concepts of analysis of moral values ​​linked to business activity and economic development of our society as:

- Corporate Social Responsibility

- Gender difference in the labor market.

- Mobbing.

- Respect for the environment.

- The scams. The pyramid one.

- The halo effects.

- Education and respect.

- Fair work

- The power of multinationals.

 

The subject focuses on a collective or individual work to achieve the learning of a series of concepts.

This work aims to develop, for the reasoning of the student or for the search on the Internet, some questions on a specific topic given to students and presented before by the teacher in class.

They complement each other by watching films and attending talks that are totally linked to ethics in the business world. Then a series of questions will have to be developed about it in order to go beyond the visualization to develop a reasoning.

 

It is also tried that the same students look for different material of interest on the subject, to make it more motivating. It can be done can be by the student with the help of the teacher.

I firmly believe in the importance of this subject as students will not only have to apply skills acquired during their years of study, but will also have to develop attitudes at work that will allow them to be as good professionals as good people.

 

THEY ARE HERE TO STAY

Neither I nor anyone else could imagine such a social experiment as a consequence of Covid-19. Three months at home and of them, two weeks that you couldn't even hear any word on the street. Of course, we discovered the sound of birds in the city as well as other ways of living and working that some of them are to stay.

During the lockdown we were able to communicate with friends and family through video calls, we met our neighbors through the balconies and we used the rooftops as long time ago. Companies and institutions ask us to work from home, a fact that some people could not imagine, others were already doing it or they were already sharing the household with the office.

There’s no accounting for taste, but most people have liked the experience of working from home since it saves a lot of time daily, such as getting ready to go to work and especially the time and cost of the means of transport to get there and return from work which in some cases is much longer than half an hour.

Owners businesses have also been able to like what they have experienced since the savings in the rent of the office is evident as other indirect costs, for example, the much coveted toilet paper during the firsts days of the pandemic. The employer may miss visual control, but there are already substitutes for it in the 21st century.

However, there are obviously disadvantages such as a lack of eye contact and healthy close human relationship.

And teaching, overnight, became virtual, for teachers and students from all academic fields. From face-to-face classes, as in the 19th century, in the absolute majority of all schools it became virtual. But without any exception such as interviews with parents, evaluation meetings, teachers' cloisters, tutoring with children, attention from the psycho-pedagogical team among other activities. And in this area, the advantages of virtuality were also discovered, such as that parents do not need to go to the educational center to have an interview and teachers can comment on the evaluations from home through a chat, a microphone and a screen that in the most of the cases it is more effective than meetings of teachers speaking at the same time. Paper consumption is reduced to almost zero and students already use virtual technology at full capacity, technology that they will already use in their future professional field. Fledgling online training centers have already been consolidated. Disadvantages they are, indeed. Children, adolescents and young people need a vital presence contact. It is their basic development and in it is absolutely necessary to share their emotions through all channels.

Now, if a worker asks the employer to work from home living more than an hour away from the office, the employer no longer has grounds to deny it. Just as a school can no longer condition an interview with parents to be face-to-face when it can be done by telematics means or by telephone.

Most of what was learned and done in this year 2020, is here to stay.

FROM DEFEAT TO DEFEAT UNTIL THE FINAL VICTORY.

Probably Catalonia, as a nation, began its list of defeats from 1714 like the Segadors’ War in 1640, October 6 of 1934, and April of 1939 among others.

Since 1714, when the territorial political management system was changed from the federalism to the centralism in the Kingdom of Spain, there have also been no defeats, for example the Catalans in Spanish America like Gaspar de Portolà, the War of Independence like the battle of El Bruc, the Ensanche of Ildefons Cerdà, the 19^th century Cuba like Miquel Biada and the Barcelona Olympic Barcelona of 92 with 22 medals. Collective defeats have also been with a strong Catalan accent. Much more could have been done with the Monturiol’s submarine or have been sold Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico instead of going through to the shameful naval battle of Santiago de Cuba or “Los últimos de Filipinas”. On the other hand, we could have saved so many secular prohibitions of full Catalan cultural expression.

Thus, it could be said that the Catalan nation has never won the Spanish state militarily or politically. That is the reason why a secular feeling of ancestral roots followed in generation after generation of longing of a final victory which is calling today Independence. But there is a shadow attached to it that is Madrid's power persistent will not to allow that goal to the Catalan feeling.

Because of all this, the Catalan people, between the “rauixa” of revenge and the “seny” of coexistence have always negotiated in everything he could with the purpose to be what it is felt, a nation. I think it is necessary to recall that the largest and most definitive deployment of the Mossos d’Esquadra in the territory was when Aznar had to speak Catalan in privacy, situation that today is hardly imaginable if he were in the central government. “La Puta I la 

Ramoneta” have always given good results.

Consequently, another onslaught against the Spanish state, I doubt that it can already bring something good to the Catalans. Really, he has never really brought it. It may be another defeat that has become victory in a part of the media in Catalonia helped by the supine ignorance of the politicians of the capital about how far the desire for a final victory can go.

¿ PUEDE LA GENTE JOVEN APRENDER DE LAS VIEJAS GENERACIONES ?

Es evidente que la gente mayor no goza de demasiado peso en nuestra sociedad ya que son apartados de áreas importantes como el mercado laboral. Sin embargo la gente de avanzada edad puede ser de gran utilidad enseñando a los jóvenes aspectos donde la experiencia adquirida es básica.

Un área donde se puede dar la situación anteriormente comentada es el mundo profesional. En el momento de tomar grandes e importantes decisiones en los negocios, tanto individualmente como colectivamente, la experiencia es una buena herramienta para poder conocer de antemano las consecuencias de ellas, y por tanto poder reducir el margen de error en hechos futuros no deseados porque se pueden estar tomado decisiones ahora que otros ya efectuaron anteriormente, con sus consecuencias ya conocidas.

Otro aspecto donde los seniors también pueden enseñar a las nuevas generaciones es el funcionamiento del mundo adulto como el ámbito financiero. Los jóvenes necesitan la experiencia de un mayor para saber como negociar con un banco, entender las consecuencias de un contrato financiero o el riego de utilizar sin control el crédito.

También podríamos hablar de otras áreas como el cuidado de los hijos, las relaciones de pareja, tanto en su vertiente sentimental como sexual, o a qué países viajar para disfrutar de unas buenas vacaciones.

En conclusión, la sociedad debería permitir que la gente mayor pueda ayudar a los jóvenes dando a los primeros un prestigio que actualmente no tienen, así unos y otros ganarían. Los mayores se sentirían útiles de nuevo y los jóvenes ganarían experiencia.

ADVANTAGES AND DISAVANTAGES OF SELF-EMPLOYMENT.

People wake up every day with the purpose of getting money that will allow them living comfortably. However, not everyone has the same way of getting money because we can find different ways of working which can be working for your own business or for another business that can be a private company or a public entity. Every labour situation has its advantages and disadvantages but we are going to focus only on self-employment.

The most visible advantage of working by yourself is that no one manages you as a consequence you are completely free to do what you think is appropriate in each moment. Moreover, you can work with your own schedule as a result of properly organizing time according to the dedication of every moment. Although you can have busy times you can manage your days off.

On the other hand, there are a number of disadvantages; the most important one is that your monthly income is not fixed as it depends on the amount you are collecting from your customers.

Besides, you can lose money, a lot of it. If you want to be a self-employed person you have to set up your business and for that you have to invest money that you can lose if the company does not make profits.

Whether working on your own account is better or worse than being a salaried employee is very difficult to say owing to the fact that it depends on how each person is.