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TOEFL Writing Samples for Independent Writing – Reasons for Working

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Rituparna Nath

Content Writer at Study Abroad Exams | Updated On - Jul 16, 2021

English-language proficiency is the most important criterion to study abroad and TOEFL happens to be a reliable language test here. TOEFL writing section comes with one TOEFL writing independent task and one TOEFL writing integrated task. By following TOEFL writing template, it becomes easier to attempt TOEFL iBT writing tasks.

For an excellent score in TOEFL writing, following smart preparation tips of TOEFL writing is needed along with the daily practice of TOEFL writing. TOEFL writing samples help the candidates to understand TOEFL writing topics and prepare their answers to secure a good overall TOEFL score. Below a TOEFL independent writing essay sample is given: 

Question: People in social work in many different settings, and for a variety of reasons. What do you think is the main reason why people have jobs?

  • To feel happier about their lives
  • To save money for the future
  • To develop new skills

Use specific examples and details to support your answer.

Sample Essay:

We all have a dream to step into our professional life from our student life – a definite reason behind this has to be making money, but only making money cannot be the single reason behind our profession. Personally, I think that people work to feel happy about their daily lives. Because of two reasons, I have developed such an opinion and I will be exploring these in my essay.

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First of all, a job is not just a job – it is a matter of responsibility. After getting a job, it’s like our life receives one more purpose. It is directly related to our mental health. Sometimes we strive to meet the objectives of our job, but everything here we do to make ourselves established. It supplies a different kind of happiness about our future. A job also makes us feel that our lives are sorted but without a job, we are often directionless. I have kind of similar experience in my life – a few years back, I was laid off. It is not that I had a financial problem because of it; I was financially secure instead. Yet I was extremely depressed because I officially had no job. Initially, I devoted myself to pursuing my hobbies – it was fun too but only at the initial stages. After a few hours of spending time in my hobbies, again, I felt depressed just because I lacked something vital. I was actually missing my office and workload. This is maybe because the purpose was my life was missing at that time and it may be also because I was not getting the job satisfaction that comes after meeting the objectives.

Secondly, jobs open multiple opportunities for us – we get the chance to meet new people daily. Our connections get enriched with this. We can share our stories with them and feel light – this too, supplies a type of happiness to us and keep us refreshed. Unemployed people hardly get the chance to meet people with so much diversity – instead, these unemployed people interact mostly with their family and a few friends. It is definitely good but sometimes it may appear boring and unemployed people may feel frustrated just because they don’t have some more people to talk to. As a student, I worked in a local supermarket. Indeed, I did not get a very high salary but my experience of these years made this the best job of my life so far. There I came in contact with random people with random queries and opinions – I really enjoyed listening to all these. Even after having a job that offers a very high salary compared to the job in that supermarket, I sometimes miss the job because I like meeting new people a lot.

In conclusion, I do believe that the main reason behind working is to feel better and happier about their lives. Job gives us goals and it keeps us engaged. We develop a positive attitude with it and a job makes us happy by offering lots of opportunities and connections to us.

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