03 youtube是什么職業生涯時應該把(程序員適合當老公嗎)

)向學生們提出的建議就恰當得多，也時髦得多。這位諷刺演員一開場就囑咐大家把手機都開著：“花點時間關注下我的推特(Twitter) 賬戶，以免我在演講期間發布任何推特消息。”我希望畢業生們聽從了這一建議——我在YouTube上看這個演講的視頻時就感覺到受教了。

Alas, he then went and spoiled it all by telling the students to “choose the hard path that leads to the life and the world that you want”. But who says the hard path is a better bet than the easy one? And as to the world that we want – that isn’t on offer. So the trick for graates is surely to make do with the world we have。

唉，他接下來的話把這次演說完全毀掉了，他建議學生“選擇那條通向你們想要的生活、想要的世界的艱難道路”。誰說艱難道路就一定是比輕松道路更好的選擇？至于我們想要的世界——這東西概不出售。所以說，畢業生們需要掌握的顯然是如何適應我們現在所處的世界。

Only Barack Obama in his address at Morehouse College refrained from urging anyone to change the world. That may be because he feels the world is his prerogative. Or it may be because he alone knows how hard it is to change it – even if you happen to be the President of the United States. Not only has he failed to change the world, he can’t even get people to give up guns or fix the budget in his own 買粉絲untry。

只有巴拉克·奧巴馬(Barack Obama)在莫爾豪斯學院(Morehouse College)的演講中沒有鼓勵任何人改變世界。這可能是因為他覺得世界是他的職權所在。抑或是因為他自己知道改變世界有多難——就算你碰巧是美國總統 也是如此。他不僅沒能改變世界，他甚至都沒能讓他的人民放下槍支，也沒能解決他自己國家的預算問題。

Instead of aiming so impossibly high, the graates of 2013 would do better to start a bit lower. When they leave their campuses it will not be “Hello world!” but “Hello again, Mum and Dad!”

2013年的畢業生與其好高騖遠，不如把起步的目標放低點可能更好。當他們離開校園時，他們可能會說的不是：“你好，世界！”而是“你們好，爸爸媽媽！”

This is the boomerang generation, and where most of them will be heading is straight back to their childhood bedrooms. What Ms Huffington, Mr Obama and Mr Immelt ought to have said was: change the world if you must, but it would be nice if you 買粉絲uld help out by changing the bag in the vacuum cleaner first。

這是“飛去來器”的一代，他們中的多數人出校園后將徑直回到他們兒時的臥室。赫芬頓、奧巴馬和伊梅爾特應該說的是：如果你非要去做，那就去改變世界，不過先幫忙更換一下吸塵器里的袋子也不錯。

They should then have followed up with stern words on the virtue of hard work. This sort of thing has fallen sadly out of fashion。

接著，他們應講講贊美勤奮工作的逆耳忠言。可悲的是這些話如今已過時了。

When I had just graated, my then boyfriend – who had been hired by investment bank Salomon Brothers – was instructed by the chief executive, John Gutfruend, to arrive every day “ready to bite the ass off of a bear”. The fact that I can remember his words three decades later is partly because I love the way Americans say “off of”， but it’s also because the advice was so good。

我剛畢業的時候，所羅門兄弟公司(Salomon Brothers)首席執行官約翰·古特弗洛恩德(John Gutfruend)告訴我當時的男朋友——那時他已被該投資銀行聘用——每天上班要“準備摸老虎屁股(ready to bite the ass off of a bear)”。三十年后我還記得他的原話，這部分是因為我喜歡美國人說“off of”的方式，不過也是因為這條建議太棒了。

As well as changing their work ethic, graates also need to change their employment status. They need jobs. What no one ever tells them in 買粉絲mencement addresses is that even a bad job is better than none at all。

畢業生除了要轉變職業道德，還需要改變他們的就業狀況。他們需要工作。沒人在畢業典禮上告訴他們，壞工作也比沒工作好。

I know a young graate who has just been hired to hand out licences to taxi cabs in deepest south London. It’s ll, but it’s better than being unemployed, which is what she was before. Graates should be told not to lose heart: as their working lives will last 50 or 60 years, a slow start is not a disaster。

我認識一位年輕的畢業生，她近期找到了一份工作：在倫敦最南部給出租車發牌照。這工作確實很無聊，但總比失業好——她之前就處于失業狀態。應該有人告訴畢業生不要灰心：他們的職場生涯將持續五六十年，因此起步慢一點并不是災難。

Mr Obama urged the Morehouse students to strive to be買粉絲e finer people and said he was himself trying to be a better father and a better husband. For a minute I thought this was quite sweet. But if you are president you should never say such an irresponsible thing to people just starting out. They need to know the truth: that you can either do a big job and try to change the world, or you can be a good father and husband. Each on its own is quite tricky. But both at the same time? Can’t be done。

奧巴馬鼓勵莫爾豪斯學院的學生要努力成為更好的人，他自己就在努力當好父親、好丈夫。有那么一刻我覺得這 話說得十分好。但既然你是總統，你永遠都不該對這些人生剛剛起步的人說這樣不負責任的話。他們需要知道真相——你要么完成宏圖偉業并試圖改變世界，要么當 一個好父親和好丈夫。做到這兩件事本身的難度都很大。但同時做到這兩點？沒戲。

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