星期六, 六月 17, 2006
Why People Work
昨个在家整理东西, 在我一堆杂物里竟找到一篇很有意思的英语小文章。
Why People Work (工作的目的):
Some people work for money only. They work not for the love of it but for the necessity of it.we call such people drudges, because drudgery is work with the joy taken out it. Their strongest thought and effort are centered on money. They do not live to work; they work to live.
There are people, too, who work with their whole attention fixed upon the finished product. “ How many can I turn out today?” and “How can I win and maintain the approval of my superiors?” are the questions they constantly ask themselves. Just to get the required something done in the quickest, least troublesome ways is their working motto. They are mere human machine.
The real workers are those who work just because they cannot help it. They live for the purpose of working. Take their work away from them and you kill them, for work is life to them. It makes them hold their heads up; it makes their eyes sparkle; it makes them free: it makes real men and women.
在我们生活里,很多人从事着自己并不喜欢的工作,只是为了各种不得以的原因，无聊的日复一日。但是我记得几年前，有个朋友和我说：“要学会尽量让自己做一行爱一行。”很多事情如果当你100%的投入，用心看其闪光点时，其实并不是那么糟糕，有时还能找到点快乐。