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你曾认真的思索过，自己真的对现有的工作满意吗？俗话说，适合的才是最好的。根据职业顾问的数据统计只有不到20%的人在真正“适合”的职位上工作。那么如何科学地来对待自我，找到一份最适合自己的工作呢？

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With some effort, perseverance, and guidance, you’ll be able to choose the right career for you.

You Will Need
Reflection
Research
A belief in yourself

Step 1: Figure out your interests
List your passions and interests. Do you like working with your hands or sitting at a desk? Working with numbers or managing money? Teaching or helping people? Selling or creating things?

Step 2: Identify strengths, skills, and talents
Identify your strengths, skills, and talents – things that come easily that you enjoy doing.

Don’t let lack of skills limit your choices. You can always increase your knowledge and develop new skills.

Step 3: Make a list
List your personal preferences and needs. What is the lowest income that you will accept? Are you willing to commute or relocate? Can you go back to school for additional training?

Step 4: Take career and self-assessment tests
Get professional advice by taking career assessment tests and tests that evaluate your personality and temperament.

Some career assessment tests are free; others are available from a career counselor.

Step 5: Research the job market
Research the job market to learn about careers that match your interests and personality.

Check the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Outlook Handbook and Career Guide to Industries, found online or at the library.

Step 6: Get ready
Prepare to begin a new chapter in your life as you pursue a career that will make you happy and bring you satisfaction. Aim high!

Vincent Van Gogh was a schoolmaster, a student priest missionary, and an art dealer before he became a painter.

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只要有努力，坚持和正确的指导，找到一份真正适合自己的工作并不难。

你需要
反省
调查研究
相信自己

首先 找出自己的兴趣
找到最让自己感兴趣的事情。你喜欢手工活还是喜欢坐在办公桌边上？喜欢数字相关的工作吗？还是教育别人帮助别人？也或者是卖东西，创造新东西？

第二 找到自己的长处，拥有的技能和天赋，当然不要让技术约束自己的选择，知识和技能都是可以无止境地更新。

第三 列一个清单，写出自己比较喜欢的几个方面和最想要的。
你恩那个接受的最低薪水是多少？你打算回学校继续深造吗？

第四 做一份有关事业和自我评估的测试
通过很多专业的事业测试来获得专业的意见。有些测试是免费的，有些需要去咨询职业规划师。

第五 研究人才市场
通过研究调查人才市场来进一步确定自己的兴趣和个性适合的工作。

最后，当一切都定位就绪，你就需要好好准备翻开事业的崭新的一页了，去追求这个让你快乐，是你兴趣所在的工作吧。

词汇讲解

1.With some effort, perseverance, and guidance, you’ll be able to choose the right career for you.
只要有努力，坚持和正确的指导，找到一份真正适合自己的工作并不难。

perseverance n. 毅力，忍耐，不屈不挠

如：You need perseverance to win in politics and I doubt if he can go the distance.
在政治上，需要矢志不移才能取胜，我怀疑他能否坚持到底。

He became a champion at last in virtue of his perseverance.
凭着坚韧不拔的精神，他终于成为冠军。

guidance n. 引导，指导

如：She is a marriage guidance counselor.
她是婚姻问题的顾问。

Management, supervision, or guidance of an action or operation.
监督，管理对动作或操作的管理、监督或指导

2.Some career assessment tests are free; others are available from a career counselor.
有些测试是免费的，有些需要去咨询职业规划师

counselor n. 顾问

如：The counselor bilked his clients out of$2 million.
那位顾问从他的顾客那里骗取了200万美元。

3.Prepare to begin a new chapter in your life as you pursue a career that will make you happy and bring you satisfaction.
你就需要好好准备翻开事业的崭新的一页了，去追求这个让你快乐，是你兴趣所在的工作吧

satisfaction 满意

如：She gets a perverse satisfaction from making other people embarrassed.
她有一种不正常的心态，以使别人难堪来取乐。