Quality of Life Is Much More Than a Job

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1、QualityofLifeIsMuchMoreThanaJob------LarryFennelly生活的质量远远不只是一份工作Ithasoftenbeenremarkedthatthesaddestthingaboutyouthisthatitiswastedontheyoung.人们常说青春的最大悲哀就是浪费在青年人身上。Arecentnewspaperreportonasurveyconductedannuallyamongcollegefreshmenstatesthattoday'sstudentsare“moremate

2、rialisticandlessaltruistic(利他主义的)”thanatanyothertimeinthe17yearsofthesurvey.最近报上有一份报道，关于每年都在大学新生中进行的调查，据报道称，如今的大学生比以往17年调查中的任何时候都“更注重物质利益，更缺乏利他精神”。Notsurprisinginthesehardtimes,students'majorobjective“istobefinanciallywelloff.Lessimportantthaneverisdevelopingameaningfu

3、lphilosophyoflife.”Asaresult,themostpopularcollegecoursetodayisnotliteratureorhistorybutaccounting.在现在的困难时期，学生们的主要目标“是经济上要富裕。而培养一种有意义的人生哲学比以往都更不重要，”这一点并不令人惊奇。结果，如今最受欢迎的大学课程不是文学或历史而是会计。Students'interestinteaching,socialserviceandotheraltruisticfieldsisatalow,whileenroll

4、ment(注册)inbusinessprograms,engineeringandcomputerscienceiswayup.学生们对于教书、社会服务和其它有利于他人的专业的兴趣降到了一个很低的水平，而商业课程、工程和计算机科学的入学人数却直线上升。That'snosurpriseeither.Afriendofmine(asalespersonforachemicalcompany)wasmakingtwicethesalaryofhercollegeinstructorsherfirstyearonthejob--evenbe

5、foreshecompletedhertwo-yearassociatedegree.这也并不令人惊奇。我的一个朋友（一家化学公司的推销员）工作第一年赚的钱就是她的大学老师们年薪的两倍--而她甚至还未读完大专两年的准学士学位课程。“Whatgooddoestheirmusic(orhistoryorliterature)dothem?”shewasfondofsaying.Andthatwasfouryearsago;Idon'tthinkIwanttoknowhowmuchshe'searningnow.“他们学的音乐（或历史或文

6、学）对他们有什么用？”她过去常喜欢这么说。那是四年以前；我认为我并不想知道她现在赚多少钱。Frankly,I'mproudoftheyoungwoman--notofherattitude,butofhersuccess.Butwhycan'twehaveitbothways?Can'tweeducatepeopleforlifeaswellasforacareer?坦率地说，我为这位年轻女士感到骄傲--不是为她的看法，而是为她的成功。但为什么我们不能两者兼得呢？难道我们不能既为生活也为职业来教育人们吗？Inatimeofincre

7、asingspecialization--atimewhen90percentofallthescientistswhohaveeverlivedarecurrentlyalive--morethaneverweneedtoknowwhatistrulyimportantinlife.Mostofuslearnthistoolateinlife.It'sonlybetweentheagesof30and50thatmostpeoplefinallyarriveattheinevitableconclusionthattheywere

8、meanttodomorethanserveacorporation,agovernmentagency,orwhatever.Werealizethatqualityoflifeisnotentirelydeterminedbyab