大学毕业生应如何定义成功.docVIP

How should college graduates define success? “大学毕业生应如何定义成功” Peter Buffett 彼得·巴菲特 This spring, about 1.65 million young men and women will graduate from American colleges and universities. Thats a staggering number. These graduates will be entering a grudging and highly competitive job market. But I would argue that parallel to the challenges facing the graduates is an opportunity as momentous as the economic conditions that spawned it. 今年春天，大约165万年轻男女将从美国的学院和大学毕业。这是个惊人的数字。这些毕业生将进入一个难以容身且竞争激烈的就业市场。但我要说，这些毕业生在面临挑战的同时也面临一个机遇，这个机遇与带来它的经济环境一样重要。? Back in March, The New York Times published a story headlined, More College Graduates Take Public Service Jobs. The article talked about a cohort of young (people) who ended up doing good because the economy did them wrong. the articles author, Catherine Rampell, used a term I thought was particularly resonant: these people were recalibrating their ambitions and their goals. ?早在今年3月，《纽约时报》曾刊登一篇题为《更多大学生从事公益服务工作》的文章。那篇文章谈到了“一批年轻人因为经济没有善待他们，最后反而做了善事”。文章的作者凯瑟琳·兰佩尔用了一个我认为特别容易引起共鸣的词：这些人在“重新校准”他们的抱负和目标。? Now lets be honest. Its doubtful the shift toward public service jobs can simply be ascribed to a sudden outbreak of altruism. Young people — many of whom are heavily burdened with school debt, all of whom face a world where a gallon of gas or a cup of coffee costs $4 — have every reason to be pragmatic. The shift toward careers in public service has had to do, in large part, with the hard facts of a bad economy and a private sector that hasnt been hiring. 现在让我们实话实说吧。转投公益服务工作能否被简单地归为利他主义的突然爆发还有待商榷。许多年轻人背负着上学欠下的沉重债务，所有年轻人都面对着一个一加仑汽油或一杯咖啡就要花4美元的世界。他们完全有理由变得很现实。目前，经济不景气，私营部门一直不招人，转投公益服务事业在很大程度上与这些残酷的现实有关。? The recalibration thats going on, then, is not just about the arithmetic of money; its about the far subtler calculus of worth. Difficult economic conditions have forced recent graduates to pause before diving into their own futures, and to ask some basic questions. What do I really want to do with my life? What will I feel good abou