Profitable Senior Service Businesses You Can Start Today
This year, almost 4 million Americans will turn 65. That number will continue to grow for the next two decades. By 2030, it will grow to over 75million people.
Department of f Labor forecasts that senior service jobs will be the fastest-growing part of the job market for many years to come.
There comes a time-usually in their 70s or 80s-when seniors downsize and move to a much smaller residence or a retirement community.
| A．The service can be started with just a few hundred dollars. |
| B．Some senior service businesses require specialized medical training. |
| C．Their homes need to be as fall-proof as possible, to prevent accidents. |
| D．A senior relocation service professional helps those folks organize that move. |
| E．That will bring many senior service jobs for those who are caring and capable. |
| F．Seniors today are richer than ever before with 31 percent enjoying “high income.” |
| G．A senior concierge can fill in when the children of an elderly parent can't be there to help. |
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【推荐1】Several recent studies examined how machine automation and artificial intelligence(AI) will change the future of work.
Some researchers predict these technologies could replace up to 30 percent of workers worldwide by 2030. The risk of being replaced will greatly increase for workers with less education, said Price Waterhouse Coopers, an international company providing financial and tax services. It estimated that in Britain, up to 46 percent of workers without a college degree could be at risk due to automation. The would drop to about 12 percent for workers with undergraduate degrees of higher.
“New smart machines have the possibility to replace our minds and to move around freely in the world,” the study said. It added that the greatest job replacement is expected to come in the areas of transportation, storage, manufacturing and retail.
The Rand Corporation recently issued its own report on the future effects of automation and AI on jobs and the workplace. Sonde Osoba was a co-author of the report. He noted that fears over machines taking jobs from humans goes back centuries. He agrees there will be major job disruptions due to AI and automation, especially for lower skilled workers. But he believes the future problems have been overestimated without historical evidence to support the predictions. “It’s not so much that the jobs are getting replaced, but it’s more like tasks are getting replaced and jobs are reconfiguring over time to account for that automation.” He added that it will be very difficult for companies to completely automate most jobs, because they require a worker to perform many different duties and to react to unexpected situations.
“If you are thinking about things an individual might do to prepare themselves, I guess being more adaptable, being more flexible, being able to reeducate yourself to fit into a different job.” Sonde Osoba suggests.
1. According to the whole passage, who are most likely to lose their job?| A．Officers in governments. | B．Deliverers in milk companies. |
| C．Scientists in laboratories. | D．Teachers in colleges and universities. |
| A．Many more jobs will be replaced as time goes by. |
| B．People could do nothing in the face of the job replacement. |
| C．People are too worried about it since there is a lack of proof of the job replacement. |
| D．Companies will completely automate some jobs by using machines instead of workers. |
| A．Automation and AI: how to change the future job | B．Future workers: what to do to keep the job |
| C．Job replacement: who is to blame | D．New studies: who is to replace the future job |
【推荐2】The Forbidden City is well known for being full of Chinese cultural and historical relics. But Masters in the Forbidden City does not just focus on the stories of the past. Instead, the documentary film, which came out in Chinese cinemas on Dec. 16, focuses on ordinary people—the restorers of relics and antiquities.
The stories are told at a slow and relaxed pace, reflecting the restorers’ work. Restoration of cultural relics and antiques can be time-consuming, and sometimes boring. Yet these restorers’ patience and peace of mind are especially precious in a society where everything is changing so fast.
“If you choose this job, you have to stand hours of work sitting on a chair. You need to be quiet and get used to being quiet,” says Wang Jin, an ancient clock repair expert.
A touching part of the documentary is the spirit of craftsmanship in the restorers. “Years of dull work requires not only skill, but also faith and spirit,” China Daily commented. “Looking for precision and perfection, devoting yourself to work, patience, endurance, loneliness. All these qualities come from the ‘craftsman spirit’.”
But unlike the popular idea of serious experts who sit around being serious, the documentary shows off the enthusiasm of the restorers. They play their guitars and make jokes about each other after a long day of restoration work. One scene that has been very popular with Internet users features a young female restorer riding a bicycle through the empty Forbidden City on a Monday. While she is doing this, a narrator says, “The last person to do this was Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing dynasty.”
Masters in the Forbidden City has proved many people’s ideas about antique restorers wrong, allowing them to realize that they are not old, dull professors, but people in their 40s, 30s and even 20s who can be quite pleasing to the eye.
1. What’s the main purpose of the documentary?| A．To display relics seldom seen. | B．To draw attention to the restorers’ lives. |
| C．To show people how antiques are restored. | D．To praise the craftsmanship of the restorers. |
| A．often get tired of their work. | B．need to be patient and peaceful. |
| C．don’t need to do restoration work fast. | D．have to do the restoration on their own. |
| A．break the dull image of restorers. | B．show the hobbies of younger restorers. |
| C．remind the audience of the last emperor. | D．encourage the young to consider the future. |
| A．In a news report. | B．In a career research. |
| C．In a cultural magazine. | D．In an interview record. |
【推荐3】Many young people are excited by their first weeks on a new job. For others, this early period is disappointing. Some difficulties may be caused by the individual’s lack of information and preparation. Often, unpleasant surprises result from the unreal expectations aroused during the recruiting(招聘) process. Recruiters and interviewers overstate the attractiveness of a job to gain a large number of candidates. Applicants overstate their abilities and understate their needs to improve their chances of getting the job. At the same time, they may fail to study the company to which they are applying. Thus, each side offers a mixed bag of truth-all likely to cause problems when those hired begin to work.
The problem of over expectations can exist for anyone, but it may be especially severe for those young graduates who have done particularly well in their studies and/or have graduated from famous business school. They have been used to fast, regular feedback on their performance and to the atmosphere of the university. They expect to find the same conditions on their new job. But once on the job, they think their skills and abilities unused.
An individual whose expectations are inconsistent(不一致) with the realities of a new job is not likely to develop an effective and satisfying work role in the company. Edgar Schein found that almost 75% of the interviewed graduates changed jobs at least once over a five-year period. He also found that within five years, most companies lose over half of the college graduates they hire. Schein thinks that this is caused by the difference between the graduates’ expectations and the realities of the company. Similarly, in his study of a small group of American business school graduates working in South America, Schein found that job continuation and satisfaction were related to how closely the graduates’ original expectations matched the realities of their jobs.
1. That some young people are disappointed during their first weeks on a new job may be caused by________.| A．their over excitement |
| B．new working conditions |
| C．their lack of abilities and unreal expectations |
| D．the individual’s lack of information and preparation |
| A．get the job |
| B．attract more companies |
| C．get a higher payment |
| D．obtain a large number of candidates |
| A．an individual’s expectations are inconsistent |
| B．over half of the college graduates lost their jobs within five years |
| C．more than 75% interviewed graduates changed jobs over a 5-year period |
| D．one man is not likely to develop an effective and satisfying work role in the company |
| A．companies like to hire old people |
| B．young people like to change their jobs |
| C．young people are more likely to change their jobs |
| D．young people’s skills and abilities are not needed in companies |
