发挥特长

1.Think about what you are good at. Are you good at mathematics? English? Baseball? Playing with little kids? Counting sheep?
充分利用自己的长处。你或许擅长算数，篮球或英语，这都是你的优势，好好发挥利用。

找到自己的兴趣

2.Decide whether you would like to further that area. Would you like to deal with numbers all day long? Write a book? Play major league baseball? Become a teacher or daycare helper? Put sheep...um...on walls?
找到自己的兴趣点。你是否喜欢自己的长处？你喜欢整天和数字打交道么，你喜欢写书么？

兴趣和工作结合起来

3.Find a way to incorporate that subject into your job. If necessary, get a new job with more relation to that area. For example, there may not be many openings for a major league baseball star, but for a baseball coach? Go check your town's local Little League!
把自己的兴趣与工作联系起来。尽可能找个和自己的兴趣很好整合的工作。

认真工作

4.Do your job carefully and well. Your job is not busy work at all- it should be important to you and to the people employing you.
认真工作。工作时的表现对你自己和老板都很重要。

扬长避短

5.Forget about what you're bad at. There is time to deal with that later.
扬长避短。不用过于在意自己的短处，尽力改善。

利用好业余时间

6.You might not be able to find a job that you can practice your expertise at. That's okay: you can do some of it in your spare time, or find a group of friends to do it with.
如果工作与自己擅长的领域没有太大的关系，那么请利用好业余时间。

从简单起步

7.If you are under eighteen, you can most likely find a job as a "helper" with other businesses, be a tutor, or work in the childcare business, such as babysitting or being a mother's helper.
如果你还没到18岁，找一份简单的工作，打个下手。

找到方向

8.If you can't think of anything you are particularly good at, try new things. But be careful not to skip around too much; you can end up becoming directionless.
如果你不知道自己擅长什么，那么好好想想，多多尝试新的事物，不要让自己失去方向。

有原则

9.Do not accept a job below minimum wage, no matter how small the job is.
无论工作多么简单，绝不要做低于平均工资的工作。

金钱不是一切

10.If your main goal in a job is to earn lots of money, this may not be for you. Teachers don't usually earn a lot, and Little League coaches often work for free. Take a minute to readjust your perspective and try to make doing something you like your main priority.
不要把金钱当作唯一的目标。这样人生就失去了意义，应该把眼光放远，多做自己喜欢和擅长的事情。

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