What do you want to be when you grow up? To begin with, when you grow up you need a job. Jobs give you money. Jobs are a material element. Anything you can touch is a material element. Material elements are also your basic needs, food, water and air. Your second most important basic needs are space, shelter, protection, fuel, health and sanitation. Jobs help you get all of this through your pay check. Another part of the material element description is that it is something that society makes and uses, by way of tools, machines, or their knowledge of how to make things. Some jobs make things, or products, proving them a material element. You have to touch the product to use it or make it. To let you know this is what a job is. Since the beginning of civilization, humans on earth have done work for pay or for gain.

Jobs are a way most people make a living.  For example doctors, lawyers, construction workers or other jobs. Depending on your job, you can give your children better educations. Jobs also pay for the government through taxes. A country’s economy depends on jobs. The more unemployed people, the less taxes the government gets. Jobs are one of the most important material elements

The employment in Brazil might be a little different from where you live. The economy is split into two different sections, informal and formal economy. First off, let's tackle the informal economy. 40% of the Brazilian people who work are into the informal economy. Informal economy is what individual people do to gain money with out the knowledge of big companies or the government. The informal economy is made of people who are like maids, gardeners, pool cleaners, or street vendors.

Secondly, there is the formal economy. Adding on, 60% of the Brazilian working people are in the formal economy. Formal is the correct way. The formal economy is the legal government approved economy, the economy that the government gets its taxes from. Formal economy consists of two parts, the industrial side and the natural side. The natural side consists of coffee plantations in the south, sugar, soybeans and corn in the northeast and rubber, timber and nuts in the Amazon region. Finally, the industrial side. In addition the industrial side is also split into two parts heavy industry and manufacturing.  Manufacturing company’s here in Brazil are companies like Flextronics, MWM, and other companies. The heavy industry side consists of power plants or dams. While manufacturing make products for customer use. The heavy industry side makes energy. As you can see Brazilian economy is split into informal and formal economy.

--E.T.S.B