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Topic: A Positive Change You MadePart 3 (Discussion):Is time management very important in our daily lives?I think so. I think for most people, if you"re, let"s say, you"re retired and you don"t have too many responsibilities, then perhaps time management is not so important.But I think for most people, you have to be somewhere, either at school or at work, and if you"re not able to manage your time around that, then you can, of course, get into trouble for turning up late.But also you can, within your work schedule, let things drift on, and you end up having to work later than you really should do. And then that affects your home life. So there can be a lot of knock-on effects if you"re not good at time management.So I think it"s very important.Do you think it’s good to change jobs frequently?I think it can be; it depends on how frequently. If you"re changing jobs every six months, that"s probably too much.But I also don"t think it"s great to stay in the same job for 20 years. I think you get into a rut, you get kind of too comfortable. And as Morgan Freeman says in the film Shawshank Redemption, you get institutionalised.So you only know that one company that you"ve been working in for so long, and everything else becomes scary, and you become incapable of adapting.So I think it"s probably good to go somewhere in the middle, like change your job maybe every five years, something like that. I think you can learn enough in that five years, and then you change jobs, and you start to learn something a little bit different. So, yeah, I think it"s a positive thing.Who generally makes changes more often: young people or old people?I think it"s almost certainly young people. I mean, if you look at the typical life steps of young people, they go to one school for primary school, and then they do that for a few years.And then they go to a different school for secondary school, which is a huge change because you have, you know, a whole new set of friends probably. And then you might go to either a university or you start your job, and that again is a huge change.And then you might, let"s say, you get married, you settle down, you might move cities, you might study abroad. There"s a lot of big changes that are included when you"re young.Whereas when you get a little bit older, typically from about your 40s onwards, you tend to kind of stick in pretty familiar patterns. You live in the same place, you don"t change jobs too often, you certainly don"t change careers too often, and you probably don"t do too many new activities.So, yeah, I think it"s probably young people who change more often.