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Poll: What is the most invaluable asset in your life/work?
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neilmac
neilmac
Spain
Local time: 14:09
Spanish to English
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Other Mar 1, 2016

I'm not comfortable with absolutes ("the most...").
Having just had an all-clear after a CAT scan, I'd place health pretty high on the list...


 
Yasutomo Kanazawa
Yasutomo Kanazawa  Identity Verified
Japan
Local time: 22:09
Member (2005)
English to Japanese
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Everything Mar 1, 2016

That's what makes people's lives, work and the earth evolve.

 
Chié_JP
Chié_JP  Identity Verified
Japan
Local time: 22:09
Member (2013)
English to Japanese
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Country background in terms of size of economy Mar 1, 2016

For work will is important because I am very sure everyone would leave me if I quit working and stay at home just reading books:q


One of the most valuable could be education I received and home/environment I was raised
- the disaster is just in-imaginable if the family member discouraged you from reading as you grow up.


Also I was re-reminded of peaceful internet environment when we experienced a huge earthquake nearby and explosion of nuclear powe
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For work will is important because I am very sure everyone would leave me if I quit working and stay at home just reading books:q


One of the most valuable could be education I received and home/environment I was raised
- the disaster is just in-imaginable if the family member discouraged you from reading as you grow up.


Also I was re-reminded of peaceful internet environment when we experienced a huge earthquake nearby and explosion of nuclear powerplant by the sea back then, or neighbouring country threated to launch a missile/take over scattered islands.

Just a September lightning and severe thunder could stop me from turning on PC for the sake of avoiding serge!


To top of it all, honesty and integrity of everyone I work/live with is the most important in business and life.
I can not take non payment happening all the time.


---Edit---
Come to think of it no one wants my language pair if Japan had weak economy + no ability to purchase or sell products.
I really need to thank my people, too! I know it is unfair for languages with smaller number of users.

I do not want to regard my working environment as fragile rather than stable but I also have to admit I am very lucky in this situation.



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Armorel Young
Armorel Young  Identity Verified
Local time: 13:09
German to English
Health Mar 1, 2016

I'm with neilmac on this one ... but then having a roof over my head, not having to spend my days collecting firewood, fetching water from a distant well or worrying where the next meal is coming from, living in a reasonably free, stable and secure society and not having financial worries all rate pretty highly too. Makes you realise that there are a lot of things we take for granted before even beginning to think about the rest.

[Edited at 2016-03-01 09:18 GMT]


 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 13:09
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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Health Mar 1, 2016

I'm also with Neil on this one... Without health, all the other assets are virtually meaningless!

 
Yetta Jensen Bogarde
Yetta Jensen Bogarde  Identity Verified
Denmark
Local time: 14:09
Member (2012)
English to Danish
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Other Mar 1, 2016

God - state of the world - health - and then all the rest!

[Edited at 2016-03-01 10:27 GMT]


 
Odile Breuvart
Odile Breuvart  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:09
Member
English to French
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Asset Mar 1, 2016

I wouldn't consider Love as an asset. Love goes beyond that.
However I find Knowledge an asset in terms of objectivity.


 
Julian Holmes
Julian Holmes  Identity Verified
Japan
Local time: 22:09
Japanese to English
Private life and work Mar 1, 2016

Should be separated, though this may be hard for some including myself to do at times. So, my answers are different.

For work - knowledge, since my customers are paying me for my skills and what I know. As for my private life - well, that's private and nobody else's business.


 
Thayenga
Thayenga  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 14:09
Member (2009)
English to German
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It depends Mar 1, 2016

In my private life the people I love come first, though I wouldn't call them an "assest", being much more precious to me than a mere assest.

In my buiness life it's knowledge...and good clients.

[Edited at 2016-03-01 13:19 GMT]


 
Other Mar 1, 2016

Electric bread knife

 
Kay Denney
Kay Denney  Identity Verified
France
Local time: 14:09
French to English
Chris Mar 1, 2016

please can you give us a link to show us your bread knife?

Can it cut home-made bread just out the oven?


 
Klára Kalamár
Klára Kalamár  Identity Verified
Romania
Local time: 15:09
English to Hungarian
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Other Mar 1, 2016

peace of mind and harmony

 
Mario Chavez (X)
Mario Chavez (X)  Identity Verified
Local time: 08:09
English to Spanish
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Where's the “Everything” option? Mar 1, 2016

Yasutomo Kanazawa wrote:

That's what makes people's lives, work and the earth evolve.


I agree. Yours is the most Zen answer of them all.


 
Sandra & Kenneth Grossman
Sandra & Kenneth Grossman  Identity Verified
Israel
Local time: 15:09
French to English
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Health Mar 1, 2016

The ability to enjoy everything else.

 
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