2024年06月六级第2套仔细阅读 Passage 2 原文翻译及答案解析

When someone asks us 'what do you do?' We nearly always reply with our occupation. Work, for many of us, is much more than a job. It is the defining aspect of our identity. For many of us it is through our job that we can define ourselves. "Without my job I don't know who I am," is a sentence that has been uttered on more than a handful of occasions from my office chair. Indeed, it can be one of the most challenging aspects I work on with clients who have lost or been forced into changing their jobs. This loss provokes an identity crisis much greater than the loss of the job itself. One of the things I have come to understand, however, is that our identity is much more complex than we recognise at first glance. If we take the time to reflect we might recognise that as well as our work we can also identify as a friend, a spouse, a son or daughter, a parent, a member of a sports team or religious community. We may recognise that we feel and act differently in these roles and relationships than we do at work. The passive daughter becomes an assertive leader at work. Furthermore, our identities at work are not static. They change over time. I myself have been a shop assistant, a waitress, a student, a graduate, and a clinical psychologist. At each stage my ability to adapt to and develop my career identity has been crucial to my wellbeing. Whilst we like to eliminate uncertainty in our lives at some level we have to manage uncertainty, especially in today's volatile and ever-shifting job market. How we see ourselves is central to the issue of our identity. When we tell ourselves "I'm good at starting projects but not so great at seeing them through" it can become part of our belief system. But if you have the unfortunate experience of an enforced job change you will need to examine those beliefs to see how grounded in reality they are. You will be required to ask yourself how helpful these beliefs are and consider personal change. We can change our beliefs, behaviours and emotional experience at any time through experimentation, practice and conscious self-discipline. In an age where career progression may lead us into new sectors it is ever more important to challenge our sense of self and explore whether you can create a new experience of your identity by changing the beliefs you hold about yourself in order to expand your career options. Ultimately it is you who define who you are. You are only your job if you let it be so.

当有人问我们“你是做什么的？”我们几乎总是以职业来回答。工作，对我们许多人来说，远不止是一份工作。它是我们身份的定义性方面。对我们许多人来说，正是通过工作，我们才能定义自己。“没有工作，我不知道我是谁，”这句话在我的办公椅上不止一次被说出。确实，与那些失去或被迫改变工作的客户一起工作时，这可能是最具挑战性的方面之一。这种丧失引发的身份危机远大于失去工作本身。然而，我逐渐理解的一点是，我们的身份比我们第一眼看到的要复杂得多。如果我们花时间反思，我们可能会意识到，除了工作，我们还可以认同自己是朋友、配偶、儿子或女儿、父母、体育队或宗教社区的成员。我们可能认识到，在这些角色和关系中，我们的感受和行为与在工作中不同。被动的女儿在工作中变成了自信的领导者。此外，我们在工作中的身份不是静态的。它们随着时间而变化。我自己曾当过店员、女服务员、学生、毕业生和临床心理学家。在每个阶段，我适应和发展职业身份的能力对我的幸福感至关重要。虽然我们喜欢消除生活中的不确定性，但在某种程度上，我们必须管理不确定性，尤其是在当今动荡和不断变化的就业市场中。我们如何看待自己是身份问题的核心。当我们告诉自己“我擅长启动项目，但不太擅长坚持到底”时，这可能成为我们信念系统的一部分。但如果你不幸经历了强制性的工作变动，你需要审视这些信念，看看它们在多大程度上基于现实。你需要问自己这些信念有多有用，并考虑个人改变。我们可以通过实验、实践和有意识的自律，随时改变我们的信念、行为和情感体验。在一个职业生涯可能将我们带入新领域的时代，挑战自我意识并探索是否可以通过改变对自己的信念来创造新的身份体验，以扩展职业选择，变得越来越重要。归根结底，是你定义了你是谁。只有当你让它如此时，工作才定义了你。