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Would you like to change your career?
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Job security is a priority for many people in these times of economic uncertainty and high unemployment. But what if your career is just not right for you? Might now actually be a good time to think about changing your career?

Li and Will hear from the experts on how to realise your dreams, what steps to take and what changes other people have made in their working lives.

在经济危机的冲击下，保住自己的饭碗是很多人的首要目标。但是你有没有考虑过你的工作是否真正适合你？现在会不会是你重新做出选择的好机会？

杨莉和 William 从职业顾问那里听取了他们的看法和建议，看看我们是否应该改变自己的工作方向。

William: Hello, welcome to BBC Learning English. I’m William.
Li: 大家好，我是杨莉。欢迎收听我们的BBC 英语教学节目。
William: For the past 12 months, we’ve talked a lot about the global economic
downturn and its impact on people.
Li: That’s right. 过去一年来，大家经常提到金融海啸，像消费，就业等问题在新闻
上天天都会报道。
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In total the US economy has lost 5.7m jobs…
Here unemployment is rising faster than at any time in the last 30 years…
Unemployment in London has reached a ten-year high. Figures out today…
Li: Unemployment 意思是失业。失业率在全球各地都不断的增长，这样的危机感也
让有工作的人担心自己能不能保住饭碗。
William: But not everyone thinks this is a bad time.
Li: No?
William: Well, it is a tough time we’re going through, but people do have the
chance to re-evaluate their careers and think about other possibilities.
Li: Re-evaluate 重新评估，当前的金融危机是我们重新考虑将来的好机会。
William: Speaking on BBC Radio 4, website founder Catherine Roan had this to
say:
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So many people are unhappy in the work they are doing and we just recognise
that there has to be more to life. If you are going to look back at your career and
think, actually I didn’t enjoy that, then that’s been a real wasted life. And
therefore if we can help people to find jobs that they do enjoy then that has to be
a good thing.
Li: Catherine 自己创办了一个找工作的网站，叫做careershifters.org. 她说很多人
对自己的工作都不满意。
William: She says that if we look back at our career and think we didn’t enjoy
our work, then that’s been a real wasted life.
Li: 没有意义的一生 a real wasted life. 如果我们回头看自己的工作，觉得没有任何
乐趣，那么我们这一生也就白白浪费了。白手起家的Sahar 当初就是这样的感
觉。
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I was sort of growing slowly dissatisfied with my life as a lawyer. It just wasn’t
me, it didn’t suit me. I just realised life's just too short to go in for the pay
cheque, there’s got to be something else. It was like selling your soul every day
when you go to a job you hate. I think that’s just unacceptable for anyone.
William: Entrepreneur Sahar Hashemi was unhappy in her job, she was growing
slowly dissatisfied.
Li: Dissatisfied 不满足。
William: Being a lawyer didn’t suit her.
Li: 律师 lawyer 听起来是个很好的职业，但是Sahar 觉得这并不是她想做的，it
didn't suit her, 不适合她。
William: So she realised that life is too short to go in for the pay cheque.
Li: Pay cheque 工资单，life is too short for something 是一个英语里经常用的
短语，整个句子的意思是如果工作仅仅是为了挣一份工资，那么生命就没有意义
了。
William: Sahar also compared doing a job that you hate to selling your soul.
Li: 做一份自己不喜欢的工作就如同是出卖自己的灵魂 selling your soul. 这个形容
挺可怕的。
William: So if you don't want sell your soul, what should you consider? Alain De
Botton, author of The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work suggests we
should look for something that uses our strengths.
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People have strengths and it’s very rare that strengths are fully aligned with
careers. So it’s not a question necessarily of jumping off into a more exciting
career or taking more risks. It’s just making sure things that you are good at and
you love are at the top of your personality as it were, at the top of your working
self.
Li: 我觉得Alain 的话很有道理，我们每一个人都有自己的强项strengths， 不过我
们的强项往往没有和我们职业划上等号 not fully aligned, align 就是对准焦距的
意思。
William: Alain says it’s not about jumping off to a more exciting career or taking
more risks.
Li: That’s right. 盲目地转行或者冒险 taking risks 并不意味新工作会开心。
William: It’s better to make sure that in your work you do things that you’re
good at and that you love.
Li: 是啊。要想作一份自己开心的工作，那么我们需要把自己的强项和优点从这份工作
中展现出来。
William: And people have made changes so they are doing exactly that.
Catherine, who we heard earlier, gives us a few examples from her
workshops.
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There are some people who just do quite normal changes from PR to teacher,
from lawyer to doctor, but actually we’ve worked with some fantastic people, I
met a business consultant we’ve worked with who is now a polar explorer. I met
someone at a workshop a few months ago who was working in events, and has
now started a job painting portraits of dogs, and is about to fly out to LA, because
she’s got some commissions.
Li: Catherine 说有些人从公关部
William: PR, public relations
Li: 转成了教师
William: Teacher
Li: 也有律师转行当医生的。不过更特别的是一个商业顾问
William: A business consultant
Li: 追求自己梦想而成了极地探险者
William: Polar explorer
Li: 还有一个曾经负责组织展览会的女孩，她现在成了画家
William: A painter specialising in painting portraits of dogs
Li: 专门为狗画像的
William: These are all very dramatic career changes, and it seems when it
comes to making these changes, some people have chosen to follow
their dreams.
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You just never know what’s possible and I think it’s about surrounding yourself
with really supportive people who believe in you and really anything is possible.
Li: 在重新考虑自己的工作定位时，也别忘了你的朋友和家人，有了他们的信任和支
持，任何事都有可能。
William: You have a better chance of success if you are surrounded by people
who believe in you and support you.
Li: That's right. 好了，我们今天关于换工作，追求梦想的话题就谈到这儿，下次节
目再会。
William: Please join us next time. Bye