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ignore是什么意思Do you view work as a burden or an opportunity? Are you the kind of person who looks for ways to save your energy or the kind that finds spending your energy satisfying? Why do people like to complain about work? Find the answers in the following essay.
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雅虎翻译器 Leonard R. Sayles
Jobs and work do much more than most of us realize to provide happiness and contentment. We’re all ud to thinking that work provides the material things of life — the goods and rvices that make possible our modern civilization. But we are much less conscious of extent to which work provides the more intangible, but more crucial, psychological well-being that can make the difference between a full and an empty life.
Historically, work has been associated with slavery and sin and punishment. And in our own day we are ud to hearing the traditional complains: “I can’t wait for my vacation ,”“I wish I could stay at home today,”“My boss treats me poorly，”“I’ve got too much work to do and not enough time to do it.”Against this background, it may well come as a surpri to learn that not only psychologists but other behavioral scientists have come to accept the positive contribution of work to the individual’s happiness and n of personal achievement. Work is more than a necessity for most human beings; it is the focus of thei
r lives, the source of their identity and creativity. Rather than a punishment or a burden, work is the opportunity to realize one’s potential. Many psychiatrists heading mental health clinics have obrved its heading effect. A good many patients who feel depresd in clinics gain renewed lf –confidence when gainfully employed and lo some, if not at all, of their most acute symptoms. Increasingly, institutions dealing with mental health problems are establishing workshops wherein tho too sick to get job in “outside” industry can work, while every effort is exerted to arrange “real” jobs for tho well enough to work outside.
数学家陈景润 And the rever is true, too. For large numbers of people, the abnce of work is harmful to their health. Retirement often brings many problems surrounding the “What do I do with mylf ? ” question, even though there may be no financial cares. Large numbers of people regularly get headaches and other illness on weekends when they don’t have their jobs to go to, and must fend for themlves. It has been obrved that unemployment, quit aside from exerting financial pressures, brings enormous psychological troubles and that many individuals deteriorate rapidly when jobless.
picture的近义词 But why? Why should be work be such a significant source of human satisfaction？A good share of the answer rests in kind of pride that is stimulated by the job, by the activity of accomplishing.
Pride in Accomplishment
The human being longs for a n of being accomplished, of being able to do things, with his hand, with his mind with his will. Each of us wants to feel he or she has the ability to do something that is meaningful and that rves as a tribute to our inherent abilities.
It is easiest to e this in the craftsman who lovingly shapes some cheap material into an object that may be either uful or beautiful or both. You can e the carpenter or bricklayer stand aside and admire the product of his personal skill.
But even where there is no obvious end product that is solely attributable to one person’s skill, rearchers have found that employees find pride in accomplishment. Our own rearch in hospitals suggests that even the houkeeping and laundry staffs take pride i
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n the fact that in their own ways they are helping to cure sick people — and thus accomplishing a good deal.
We’re often misled by the complaints surrounding difficult work; deep down most people regard their own capacity to conquer the tough job as the mark of their own unique personality. Complaining is just part of working. After all, how el do you know who you are, expect as you can demonstrate the ability of your mind to control your limbs and land and hands and words? You are, in significant measure, what you can do.
Some are deceived into thinking that people like to store up energy, to rest and save themlves as much as possible. Just the opposite. It is energy expenditure that is satisfying.
Just watch an employee who must deal with countless other people became his or her job is at some central point in a communications network; a salesman at a busy counter, a stock broker on the phone, a customer reprentative. They will tell you how much skill and experience it takes to answer countless questions and handle various kinds of persis
tence every hour of the day. Not everyone can interact with such persistence and over long hours, but tho who do, pride themlves on a distinctive ability that contributes mightily to running of the organization.
But work is more than accomplishment and pride in being able to command the job , becau expect for a few craftsmen and artists most work takes place“out in the world”，等一秒钟with and through other people,
Esprit de corps
Perhaps an example will make the point:
I remember viewing a half dozen men in a chair factory who job it was to bend veral pieces of steel and attach them so that a folding chair would result. While there were ten or twelve of the “team” that worked together, one in particular was known for its perfect coordination and lightning-like efforts. The men knew they were good. They would work in spurt for twenty or thirty minutes before taking a break — to show themlves, bystander
s and other groups what it was to be superbly skilled and lf – controlled, to be the best in the factory.
