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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 xml:lang="" class="chapter"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="d0e15462" shape="rect"/>Chapter 5. Lesson 5</h1></div></div></div><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="d0e15482" shape="rect"/><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Где вы рабо́таете?</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>рабо́таете?</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">мэ́неджеры</em></span></strong></span>,
- <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">банки́ры</em></span></strong></span>,
- <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">бизнесме́ны</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">спекуля́нт</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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