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- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"><head xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" profile=""><title>Chapter 5. Lesson 5</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.2"/></head><body><div class="chapter"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="d0e15008" shape="rect"/>Chapter 5. Lesson 5</h1></div></div></div><p/><div class="informaltable"><table class="informaltable" width="100%" border="1"><colgroup span="1"><col span="1"/></colgroup><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Lesson №5</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">WHERE DO YOU WORK?</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">УРОК № 5</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><span class="inlinemediaobject"><img src="Images/0161.png" width="213" alt="Lesson 5"/></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="d0e15029" shape="rect"/><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Где вы
- работаете?</em></span></h1></div></div></div><p>Many of your acquaintances in your new country will be interested in
- getting to know you better. One of the things they'll be asking will
- be<span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"> <span class="bold"><strong>Где вы
- </strong></span><span class="bold"><strong>работаете?</strong></span></em></span><span class="bold"><strong>
- </strong></span>"What do you do for a living? Where do you work?" Don't be
- surprised if you're asked questions, especially having to do with how much
- you are paid, which Americans would find inappropriate. During the Soviet
- period, wage scales were standard and common knowledge throughout the
- Soviet Union. A bus driver in Moscow was supposed to make as much as one
- in Irkutsk; a university professor in Kiev had the same salary as his
- counterpart in Gorky.</p><p>In those years, manual labor was more highly valued (and better
- paid) than those professions which demanded more brain and less brawn.
- With the break-up of the Soviet Union and the disappearance of the
- communist state, the nature and scope of many professions have been
- altered. And as the country moves toward a market economy, new professions
- are appearing (<span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">мэнеджеры</em></span></strong></span>, <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">банкиры</em></span></strong></span>, <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">бизнесмены</em></span></strong></span> and others) which
- enjoy varying degrees of popularity and respect. As a residual effect of
- the Soviet period, there are still many who think that any individual who
- is even mildly successful in business (and in economic and material terms)
- is obviously а <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">спекулянт</em></span></strong></span> who could have acquired
- his/her wealth only through illegal means. We can expect to see this
- situation continuing for some time as the society gropes its way toward a
- new order.</p></div></div></body></html>
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