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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, 1. 7月, 你看着你那英俊的21岁的儿子,身着长袍，头戴学位dressed in gown and mortarboard, proudly clutched his 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honors degree for his graduation photo. Those memories 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of forking out不情愿掏出 thousands of pounds a year so 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that he could eat well and go to the odd party began to 钱的事了。 fade. Until now.



2 As the summer break comes to a close and students across 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the country prepare for the start of a new term, you find 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that your graduate son is still spending his days slumped 发发短信,上上社交网，泡泡酒吧。这位从前的“千禧一代”掉落in front of the television, broken only by texting, 的年轻人一夜之间变成了“抱怨一代”的一员。他究竟会不会Facebook and visits to the pub. This former scion幼芽 of 去找到工作呢? Generation Y has morphed改变 overnight into a member of Generating Grunt. Will he ever get a job?

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

3. This is the scenario情节 facing thousands of families. 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More than 650,000 students left university this summer 做什么。父母又开始唠叨;儿女们变得无缘无故的叛逆, 他们and most in these financially testing times have no idea 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 daughters become rebels without a cause, aware that they need to get a job, but not sure how.

4。从密德萨斯郡回来的杰克·古德温, 以政治学2:1的比

4. Jack Goodwin, from Middlesex, graduated with a 2:1 in 例，今年夏天从诺丁汉大学毕业。他走进大学就业服务中心，politics from Nottingham this summer. He walked into the 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university careers service and straight back out again; 五个男生和他一样，进去又出来。找一份工作倒是没有压力, there was a big queue. He lived with five other boys all 尽管他知道的大多数女生却有一个更明确的计划。 of whom did the same. There was no pressure to find a job,

5。“我申请一份政治研究员的工作,但是被拒绝了,”他

even though most of the girls he knew had a clearer plan. 说。“他们付18，000英镑的工资，交了房租后就连一听豆子5. “I applied for a job as a political researcher, but 罐头也买不了,然而,他们还要招聘有经验或有硕士学位的人。got turned down,” he says. “they were paying ￡18,000, 后来我申请公务员快速分流计划。我通过了考试,但在面试时，doesn’t buy you much more than a tin of beans after rent, 他们又指责我“太超然”谈话的语言“太技术统治论”了, 虽but they wanted people with experience or master’s 然我认为不可能,但显然如此"。 degrees. Then I applied for the Civil Service fast stream. I passed the exam, but at the interviews they accused me

6。从那以后他整个夏天都“隐藏”起来。他可以讲出电

of being ‘too detached” and talking in language that 视记录片《交通警察》上的几集的内容，他白天成天看电视不was ‘too technocratic’, which I didn’t think possible, 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but obviously it is.”

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

6. Since then he has spent the summer “hiding”. He can 人早9晚5（白天）“已心灰意冷”, 晚上就去泡酒吧。那么找recount several episodes of Traffic Cops and has seen more 个酒吧里的工作怎么样呢, 起码可以付点酒费吧?“我不想做daytime television than is healthy. He talks to his 酒吧工作。我去上了综合学校，我竭尽全力才上了一个好大学,friends about his aimless days and finds that most are 努力得到了好学位,”他说。“现在我的处境和那些根本没上过


in the same boat. One has been forced out to stack shelves 大学的朋友一样，当一个酒吧招待，做没有前途的工作。我觉by his parents. For the rest it is 9-to-5 “chilling” 得我兜了一圈又回到了原点。” before heading to the pub. So how about working behind the bar, to pay for those drinks? “I don’t want to do

7。他的母亲杰克琳·古德温, 为他辩护。她坚持说,他

bar work. I went to a comprehensive and I worked my 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backside off to go to a good university, where I worked 作, 她和丈夫发现要告诉他如何去做也是很棘手的一件事。really hard to get a good degree,” he says. “Now I’m “我不得不一直工作,”她说。“当你有了学位就很难做到了,back at the same stage as those friends who didn’t go 学位为你打开一扇新门, 或者你也认为它确实如此。” to uni at all, who are pulling pints and doing dead-end jobs. I feel that I’ve come full circle.”



8。尽管她此刻对儿子态度温和, 但是她也明白在即将到

7. Jacqueling Goodwin, his mother, defends him. She 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insists that he has tried to get a job, but having worked 找工作了。他甚至需要交房租,补贴家用。 full-time since leaving school herself, she and her husband find it tricky to advise him on how to proceed.



9。“无论如何他们都得长大。我们终于供他读完了大学,

“I have always had to work,” she says. “It’s difficult 所以他给我们一点帮助上的回报也是好的,”她说。“南美洲旅because when you have a degree, it opens new doors for 行是一个分界点。他回来后，如果没有别的工作，至少会有圣you, or you’d like to think that it does.”

8. Although she is taking a soft line with her son at the

诞节的工作。”



moment, she is clear that after an upcoming three-week 10。贾尔·Lindenfield，是一位精神治疗医师，是《精神治trip to south America, his holiday from work will have 疗策略》一书的作者, 他说,古德温的父母做得很对。从大学to end. He may even have to pay rent and contribute to 到工作的过渡对家长和孩子来说都很艰难:最重要的是，家长the household bills.

要在支持理解子女又不为他们提供舒适生活这两者之间找到

9. “They’ve got to grow up at some point. We’ve 平衡点。 finished paying for university, so a little bit of help



back is good,” she says. “The South America trip is the 11“父母的主要工作就在这里, 因为如果他们老是告诉孩子如cutoff point. When he comes back there’ll be Christmas 何去做, 这时就会引起冲突。如果你有熟人, 那么一定会想尽work if nothing else.”

办法去找熟人,”她说。“但是很多家长心太软。你要限制给他

10. Gael Lindenfield, a psychotherapist and the author 们的花销,要求他们支付房租或贴补家用或照料宠物。你继续of the Emotional Healing Strategy, says that the Goodwin 过正常的生活,不允许他们滥用你的银行存款, 或是让你伤精parents have struck exactly the right note. The 费神。” transition from university to a job is tough for parents and children: Crucially they must balance being positive and understanding with not making life too comfortable for their offspring.

12为他们支付职业咨询费、购买去面试的火车票或书籍是好事情, 太逼他们倒是不可取。但是父母应该警惕心太软,



11 “the main job for the parents is to be there because Lindenfield建议父母可以同情他们几天，甚至几周，如果他if they start advising them what to do, that is when the 们找工作遇到挫折的话-这取决于他们遭打击的程度。事后,儿conflict starts. If you have contacts, by all means use 女们需要你轻轻推他们一下，坚决地把他们扶上马鞍，让他们those,” she said. “

重新启程。

But a lot of parents get too soft. Put limits on how much

money you give them, ask them to pay rent or contribute 13男孩更容易窝在家里。Lingenfield认为男人在帮助儿子、to the care of the house or the pets. Carry on life as 外甥,或者朋友的儿子方面往往比母亲和姐妹做得更出色。男normal and don’t allow them to abuse your bank account 人处理挫折比女性更有办法,她说,所以他们需要男性出面来or sap your reserves of emotional energy.”

商量解决的办法。

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