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奥里森·斯威特·马登:向前进·摘录 373
奥里森·斯威特·马登《向前进》· Pushing to the Front · 领导
Select a clean, useful, honorable occupation. If there is any doubt on this point, abandon it at once, for _familiarity with a bad business will make it seem good_. Choose a business that has expansiveness in it. Some kinds of business not even a J. Pierpont Morgan could make respectable. Choose an occupation which will develop you; which will elevate you; which will give you a chance for self-improvement and promotion. You may not make quite so much money, but you will be more of a man, and _manhood is above all riches, overtops all titles_, and _character is greater than any career_. If possible avoid occupations which compel you to work in a cramped position, or where you must work at night and on Sundays. Don't try to justify yourself on the ground that somebody must do this kind of work. Let "somebody," not yourself, take the responsibility. Aside from the right and wrong of the thing, it is injurious to the health to work seven days in the week, to work at night when Nature intended you to sleep, or to sleep in the daytime when she intended you to work.
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白话
选干净、有用、体面的职业。有疑虑就放弃,因为熟悉坏行当会让人觉得它好。选有扩展性的工作,有些行当连摩根也难使其体面。选能发展你、提升你、给你自我改进和晋升机会的职业。可能钱少些,但更像人;人格高于财富和头衔,品格大于事业。尽量避免 cramped 姿势、夜班和周日工作。别用“总得有人做”来合理化;让“别人”去负责。健康上,一周七天工作、昼夜颠倒都伤身。
上下文
马登在《奋力向前》中给年轻人择业建议,强调职业对人格和健康的影响。
今日一问
你现在的职业是在发展你还是在限制你?
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