Which would you choose : a high-paying job with long hours that would give you little time with family and friends or a lower-paying job with shorter hours that would give you more time with family and friends?

Depending on personal experiences, personality type and emotional concern people believe that working is an important part of their lives. But some of them believe that they should have a job with high salary and others prefer to spend most of their time with their family and friends. They prefer lower-paying jobs with short working hours.

In my point of view, each person can choose one of the high-paying jobs with long working hours and lower-paying jobs with short working hours in each part of his/her life. For this decision, each person has some reasons. For example, a man wants to get married, before his marriage, he need some money. So he chooses a high-paying job and prefers to spend a few time for himself or his family because he needs to save some money at this time for his life and his future.
After some time, he may change his idea or his job because of some reasons that he has like being with children, family and any other reasons. Therefore he decides to choose a job with shorter hours.

For myself, I have a full time job with long working hours, I have a good income. But, now, I need to study so hard for an exam. I need more free time for studying. So I decided to change my job but I should accept a low income before everything.

Taking into account of all these factors, we may reach the conclusion that choosing between a high-paying job with long hours that gives us short time with family and a lower-paying job with short time of working  depends on the situation.
In short, it depends on a person's requirements, one's personal experiences, personality type and goals in one's life.

Learning about the past has no value for those of us living in the present. Do you agree or disagree?

Some people prefer to use their experiences to make the future better, others believe that experiences in the past aren't important for their present time or future.

But I think the past and its experiences create the present and the future.I strongly disagree with the statement that learning about the past has no value for the present.There are numerous reasons why I hold no confidence on this. 

For an instance, if you made a wrong decision in the past and walked into a wrong way, you've made some experiences about it undoubtedly. Now you know the reasons of your wrong decision, so if you face with the same situation, you would make a better decision and you wouldn't repeat your mistakes.

As another example, a student  is successful when he/she doesn't repeat previous mistakes and reviews his/her errors to learn the correct answers.

Experiences are like good teachers for people and help them to find and choose a better way in their lives. 

A successful person is someone who have gained valuable information from the past and never do something wrong for the second time.

Taking into account of all these factors, we may reach this conclusion that valuable experiences in the past assure a more fulfilled life for people, if they use them correctly.

There is a quote that says ," The past is history, future is a mystery, today is a gift. That's why we call it the present ".

So we should make the our present life with learning about the past.

  

Some people say that computers have made life easier and more convenient.Other people say that computers have made life more complex and stressful !

Computers are devices that were invented by someone to improve the level of people's lives. Computers have changed all parts of life. Some people think that the computers make life easier and more convenient and others think that these make life more complex and stressful.

In my opinion, computers are just programmable devices that can do everything right or by mistakes. So someone created the computer and programmed it how to do the tasks.
Today, doing everything is possible by computers. For example, your family members are away from you, they live in another city or country or even another continent. You can communicate with them easily by computers through the internet. You can see and talk to them every day and share your opinion just like they are in your home.
you can gain knowledge  and a lot of information in a short period of time.You can bye everything that you need, pay your bills without going out by computers.
Nowadays,computerized  machinery  can do physical activities instead of people as well. They save a lot of time and energy and money. But one thing  that's very important is , people need to learn how and where they should use computers and their services.If they know how to use these intelligent machinery, they can get all their tasks done by computer services.
Thereby, life is more convenient and easier than before.
In my point of view, one thing is remaining that is human faults. Human have some faults, they can do the tasks right or they can have a lot of mistakes. All computers were made by a human, So having a fault or error is a normal event.
Imagine ! You 're using an ATM machine, suddenly it crashes and it doesn't give your card back. You shouldn't be mad at the machine .This isn't its fault, It was programmed badly.

Computers came to help us, they made life easy. These devices don't have any complicated problems and they can't make stress for people by themselves.People are responsible for computer operations, So they should learn how to use and program these devices.

What is a very important skill a person should learn in order to be successful in the world today ?

Today's world makes life quite complicated , so people should try to hard gain anything they want.

Success is a part of life that creates satisfaction for people. There is no denying to the fact that success isn't  achieved without the skills.People need to have some skills to be successful in their lives. Although it seems normal but we can't tell which one outweigh the other among the skills.

In my point of view , perseverance  is a skill that is necessary for someone who want to be successful. A perseverant person is someone who try hard to achieve his/her goal and isn't lazy.

For example, in China, every year we can see a lot of improvements in different ways. I think Chinese people are very perseverant, they have a lot of persistence to  achieve something and don't give up easily.

To be a successful person, it's very important to determine a main goal as a target. After that everyone should try  

hard to reach his/her aim even though there a lot of obstacles on the way.

But I think perseverance isn't the only adequate skill, it needs wise decisions. About myself, when I have perseverance, I can have some achievements, which take some efforts. If I have a little indolence, I can't reach my goals easily.

In short, I can say a quote from Einstein, he said that "perseverance is more important than knowledge and wisdom". It's very valuable because you can reach your goal with it.