访谈录 2008-10-01&10-03 测出最适合你的工作

Stunned¹ by this award-winning psychologist, just to answer all these questions. What makes you think, how well do you know yourself, or what you're supposed to do? What if you change some of the answers? Change some of your appetites or instincts. Will that change what you’re supposed to be doing? Hmm, anyway I took the test. I tried to be honest about it. We know that Sam’s basically perfect. Let's see what I’m supposed to be doing. Shoos for me? Umm...

Hey, everyone, the good news is gas prices are flopping…

GMA has given me the chance to talk to characters from all walks of life, often I’m side by side by people on the most intense occupations. Sometimes, I began to try my hand at some of the most amazing professions.

All of them are a far cry from the dreams of my childhood which were grounded in practicality. I like the idea of being a teacher, I always like the ideal of law, and I always like to eat.

That’s it. Maybe my first job pointed² to my current paycheck position.

My first job was paperboy. Collection day was always a little tricky³. People are not quite as available on collection days as they should be.

So with all these experiences I’ve had, I figured this test wouldn’t tell me anything I didn’t really know about what might be right for me.  In other words, I was a cynic.

I think that you can’t just base whether somebody would be good at what they do in life, based on what their aptitudes⁴ are, their preferences. Often you wind up being good whatever you do because you become dedicated⁵ to it. I would have never thought that I’d be good at what I’m doing now, and maybe I’m not.

Still I sat down and answered all nine million questions with an open mind.

Fix electrical things, yeah, I like that.

Repair cars, yeah, I like that.

Fix accounting⁶ things, I like that…

I'll be a racer. Ah…

Chief cook, let’s go with that.

Work in a research office laboratory, operate office machines. Who likes that?

Finally I made it through all the sections, subsections, and sub-subsections.

This is an inventory⁷ of your feelings and attitudes about many kinds of work, like you’re automated⁸ posting machine, (what’s that?) quick on yes for those activities you do well? I would love to be a marriage consular⁹. 

Ok, done

Actually, I thought I fit more than three of the six personality categories the test identifies, but if I had to pick three, realistic, investigative, enterprising.

Turns out I got two of the three right. The test said I was social, enterprising and realistic. Then the ultimate careers will reveal. First up, driving instructor¹⁰. Very good at that, driving and instructing. And how about a crew cut, me as a master hairstylist. I like that. How am I doing by the way?

Time to cook with chef chromo, the executive chef, nice, now we’re talking, on TV?

 The first three were worlds away from my chosen path. But the fourth was at least in a bar-bar---lawman. I like to be police officer; those guys are some of the bravest men and women I know.

So it seems I might be trying something new and very different. That’s what makes every GMA day an adventure.

You do have to pay to take a test by the way, but could be worth it, teach you something about yourself. 

What’s it? Nine dollars, fast ten dollars? Yeah we have to pay for the test as well. Yeah. Chef ha? I can see that. I would like that; I love those TV cooking shows. I like to watch them, I don’t know about working in a restaurant, very hard, very stressful. Oh, it is. Suppose this job which is just a peach.

Like a, coach, I, definitely, ‘cause you are always sticking up for people.

Don’t know if I’m brave enough to do it for they leave house every day putting what they do in a line. But great job!

Well, it’s interesting to see the spectrum¹¹ of things that you could do happily given your personality ‘coz sometimes we think you know, we don’t think. That also suits the things I love.

Who would not cross the street the wrong way if you look at this right now?

Can’t even get my kiddie to diner?

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1 stunned   

adj. 震惊的，惊讶的 动词stun的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• The fall stunned me for a moment. 那一下摔得我昏迷了片刻。
• The leaders of the Kopper Company were then stunned speechless. 科伯公司的领导们当时被惊得目瞪口呆。

2 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

3 tricky   

adj.狡猾的，奸诈的；(工作等)棘手的，微妙的

参考例句：

• I'm in a rather tricky position.Can you help me out?我的处境很棘手，你能帮我吗？
• He avoided this tricky question and talked in generalities.他回避了这个非常微妙的问题，只做了个笼统的表述。

4 aptitudes   

（学习方面的）才能，资质，天资( aptitude的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They all require special aptitudes combined with special training. 他们都应具有专门技能，并受过专门训练。
• Do program development with passion. has aptitudes for learning. research. innovation. 热爱程序开发工作。具有学习。钻研。创新的精神。

5 dedicated   

adj.一心一意的；献身的；热诚的

参考例句：

• He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
• His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。

6 accounting   

n.会计，会计学，借贷对照表

参考例句：

• A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
• There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。

7 inventory   

n.详细目录，存货清单

参考例句：

• Some stores inventory their stock once a week.有些商店每周清点存货一次。
• We will need to call on our supplier to get more inventory.我们必须请供应商送来更多存货。

8 automated   

a.自动化的

参考例句：

• The entire manufacturing process has been automated. 整个生产过程已自动化。
• Automated Highway System (AHS) is recently regarded as one subsystem of Intelligent Transport System (ITS). 近年来自动公路系统(Automated Highway System,AHS)，作为智能运输系统的子系统之一越来越受到重视。

9 consular   

a.领事的

参考例句：

• He has rounded out twenty years in the consular service. 他在领事馆工作已整整20年了。
• Consular invoices are declarations made at the consulate of the importing country. 领事发票是进口国领事馆签发的一种申报书。

10 instructor   

n.指导者，教员，教练

参考例句：

• The college jumped him from instructor to full professor.大学突然把他从讲师提升为正教授。
• The skiing instructor was a tall,sunburnt man.滑雪教练是一个高高个子晒得黑黑的男子。

11 spectrum   

n.谱，光谱，频谱；范围，幅度，系列

参考例句：

• This is a kind of atomic spectrum.这是一种原子光谱。
• We have known much of the constitution of the solar spectrum.关于太阳光谱的构成，我们已了解不少。