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U N IT 4 C H A L L E N G E S A N D  
IN N O V A T IO N S
C a re e r R es p o n sib ility
A responsibility is an essential norm of behaviour 
without which modern society or state cannot be 
imagined. All citizens should own responsibilities in 
doing this or that issue. Protecting the environment, 
nature is on the responsibility of everyone. Besides, 
we have personal responsibilities before our family 
members. Parents have great obligations in front of 
their children. In its turn, the children are responsible 
for well-being of their parents when they are old. But 
mostly people face essential responsibilities in their 
careers. They can be divided into general and specific 
ones. Fulfilling the set tasks completely, contributing 
to development of the company, not being late for work, 
obeying the company’s rules and norms of behavior 
are general ones. Specific career responsibilities 
belong to particular job as only firefighters quench fire; 
other jobs do not take such responsibilities. We have 
decided to find out different career responsibilities 
and what professions should follow them strictly To 
have an exact vision of career responsibilities we have 
asked several job occupants about them.
The first person who was interviewed works as a 
nurse at the Medical center.
An interviewer: Rano, would you like to tell us 
what specific job responsibilities you have got?
A nurse: Different. I am responsible for general 
control of patients’ health conditions. Exactly 
speaking, I have to make all injections in time. 
Necessary medical tests’ results are filled in special 
patient health forms by me.
An interviewer: Do you think that your 
responsibilities are difficult to fulfill?
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A nurse: Yeah, because in most cases nurses are 
responsible for patients’ lives. We should always be 
careful and attentive, in our job there is no any little 
thing.
Now let’s have a short talk with an interpreter 
(translator) about his career responsibilities.
An interviewer: Good morning, what specific 
career responsibilities do you have, Akram?
An interpreter: My specific responsibilities of me 
as a translator are the following: first of all, I should 
completely focus on the speaker’s matters. I have no 
right to add any idea of my own or omit the speaker’s. 
The translations should not be confusing, puzzling, 
and unclear; they must be interpreted exactly, 
obviously, in correct order.
An interviewer: Do you think your job requires 
strong responsibilities?
An interpreter: Sure, as our translations can resolve 
a problem or on the contrary may give birth to another 
trouble. History tells some tragic stories connected 
with interpreters, when a man just translated the words 
of an ambassador who had brought a message on war 
declaration, the king got frustrated and ordered to 
behead not the minister but a poor translator became 
a victim of an appropriate translation. But anyway we 
should translate what we are told.
Now let’s put some questions to a company guard 
Javod about his career responsibilities.
An interviewer: What specific responsibilities do 
you have? Are they difficult to follow?
A guard: Even if most people do not appreciate 
my job supposing it to be not as essential as other 
occupations, I suppose my career is one of the most 
important ones, because we are responsible for every 
object at the company, we check people who are 
coming in and out here, besides we fill in some forms 
as reports of a night duty.
Having listened to several people with different 
jobs we have concluded that each career has got its 
difficult responsibilities. But whatever people do 
they should cope with problems and follow their 
responsibilities with dedication.