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Looking for a job after
university
First, get off
the sofa
大学毕业后找工作吗
《首先
,
离
开沙发，行动起来》
More than 650,000
students left university this
超过
65
万
的学生今年夏天就要离开了大学了，而且许多
summer and many
have no idea about the way to get a job.
人都不知道怎样才能找到工作。父母是多么艰难，他们要在经
How
tough
should
a
parent
be
to
galvanize
通电，刺激
them
济不景气时期激励这些孩子，并非易事
in these financially
fraught
担心的，忧虑的
times
1
In
July,
you
looked
on
as
your
handsome
21-year-old
son,
帽
,
骄傲地拿着荣誉学位拍下毕业照片。这时一年当中为了让
dressed in
gown and mortarboard, proudly clutched his
他吃好喝好，为了让他参加各种聚会，家长对此要掏出几千英
honors
degree for his graduation photo. Those memories
镑。这些曾经的记忆都烟消云散了。但是直到现在又要开始讲
of
forking out
不情愿掏出
thousands
of pounds a year so
钱的事了。
that he could eat well and go to the
odd party began to
fade.
Until now.
2
As
the
summer
break
comes
to
a
close
and
students
across
the
country
prepare
for
the
start
of
a
new
term,
you
find
that
your
graduate
son
is
still
spending
his
days
slumped
掉落
in front of the
television, broken only by texting,
2
暑假结束之前
,
全国学生纷纷准备新学期的
开始
,
你发现你毕
了业的儿子仍然消磨
着日子蜷缩在电视机前
,
一动不动，偶尔
发发短信
,
上上社交网，泡泡酒吧。这位从前的“千禧一代”
的年轻人一夜之间变成了“抱怨一代”的一员。他究竟会不会
去
找到工作呢
1.
7
月
,
你看
着你那英俊的
21
岁的儿子
,
身着长袍，头戴学位
Facebook
and
visits
to
the
pub.
This
former
scion
幼芽
of
Generation Y has
morphed
改变
overnight into a
member of
Generating Grunt. Will he
ever get a job
3.
This
is
the
scenario
情节
facing
thousands
of
families.
More than 650,000
students left university this summer
and most in these financially testing
times have no idea
3
。这是成千上万家
庭面对的情景。超过
65
万的学生在这个夏
天离开了大学，很多学生在经济不景气的时候不知道下一步该
做什么。父母又开始唠
叨
;
儿女们变得无缘无故的叛逆
, <
/p>
他们
意识到需要找个工作
,
但又不知道该怎么办。
what
to
do
next.
Parents
revert
to
回复
nagging;
sons
and
4
。从密德萨斯郡回来的杰克·古德温
,
以政治学
2:1
的比
da
ughters become
rebels
without
a
cause,
aware
that they
例
，今年夏天从诺丁汉大学毕业。他走进大学就业服务中心，
need to get a
job, but not sure how.
但是又径直走了出来
;
那里的队伍排成长龙。和他住在一起的
4. Jack
Goodwin, from Middlesex, graduated with a 2:1 in
五个男生和他一样，进去又出来。找一份工作倒是没有压力
,
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politics
from Nottingham
this summer.
He
walked
into
the
尽管他知道的大多数女生却有一个更明确的计划。
university careers service and straight
back out again;
5
。
“我申请一份政治研究员的工作
,
但是被拒绝了
,
”他
there was a big
queue. He lived with five other boys all
说。
“他们付
18
，
000
英镑的工资，交了房租后就连一听豆子
of
whom
did
the
same.
There
was
no
pressure
to
find
a
job,
罐头也买不了
,
然而
,<
/p>
他们还要招聘有经验或有硕士学位的人。
even
though
most
of
the
girls
he
knew
had
a
clearer
plan.
后来我申请公务员快速分流计划。我通过了考试
,
< br>但在面试时，
5.
“
I
applied for a job as a political researcher, but
他们又指责我“太超然”谈话的语言“太技术统治论”了
,
虽
got
turned
down,
”
he
says.
“
they
were
paying
￡
18,000, <
/p>
然我认为不可能
,
但显然如此
。
doesn
’
t
buy
you
much
more
than
a
tin
of
beans
after
rent,
but
they
wanted
people
with
experience
or
master
’
s
< br>视记录片《交通警察》上的几集的内容，他白天成天看电视不
degrees.
Then
I
applied
for
the
Civil
Service
fast
stream.
惜损坏健康。他对朋友们聊起无所事事的日子
,
结果发现大多
I passed the exam, but
at the interviews they accused me
数人也有同
感。有一个人已经被父母逼得去超市上货。其余的
of being
‘
too
detached
”
and talking in
language that
人早
9
晚
5
（白天）
“已心灰意冷”
,
晚上就去泡酒吧。那么找
was
‘
too
technocratic
’
,
which
I
didn
’
t
think
possible,
个酒吧里的工作怎么样呢
,
起码可以付点酒费吧“我不想做酒
but obviously
it is.
”
吧工作。我去上了综
合学校，我竭尽全力才上了一个好大学
,
6. Since
then he has spent the summer
“
hiding
”
. He can
努力得到了好学位
,
”他说。
“现在
我的处境和那些根本没上过
recount
several
episodes
of
Traffic
Cops
and
has
seen
more
大学的朋友一样，当一个酒吧招待，做没有前途的工
作。我觉
daytime
television
than
is
healthy.
He
talks
to
his
得我兜了一圈又回到了原点。
”
friends about his aimless days and
finds that most are
in
the
same
boat.
One
has
been
forced
out
to
stack
shelves
by his parents. For
the rest it is 9-to-5
“
chill
ing
”
before
heading to the pub. So how about working behind
the bar, to pay for those drinks
“I
don
’
t want to do
bar
work.
I
went
to
a
comprehensive
and
I
worked
my
backside off to go to a good
university, where I worked
really hard
to get a good
degree,”
he
says.
“
Now
I’
m
8
。
尽管她此刻对儿子态度温和
,
但是她也明白在即将到
back at the same
stage as those friends who
didn
’
t go
来的为期三周到
南美的旅行之后
,
他的假期行将结束，又要去
< br>7
。他的母亲杰克琳·古德温
,
为他辩护。她坚持说
,
他
已经试着去
找了工作
,
但是由于她自己中学毕业后就成天地工
作
,
她和丈夫发现要告诉他如何去做也是很棘手的
一件事。
“我不得不一直工作
,
”她说
。
“当你有了学位就很难做到了
,
学位
为你打开一扇新门
,
或者你也认为它确实如此。
”
6
。从那以后他整个夏天都“隐藏”
起来。他可以讲出电
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