商业周刊:最后雇佣却先遭解雇(4)

He'd started as a salesperson¹ there about a year ago, leading the expansion into a new region and making just under $50,000 a year plus commission.

大约一年前，他开始在那里做销售员，带领公司扩张到一个新地区，年收入不到五万美元，外加佣金。

It was a big step up from washing dishes at a restaurant less than a decade earlier, or organizing rafting trips just five years ago.

这比不到十年前在餐馆洗碗，或五年前组织漂流旅行，都有了很大的进步。

As the economy improved over the course of the past decade, people like Rogan were able to leave lower-paying jobs for better opportunities.

随着过去十年经济好转，像罗根这样的人能够离开低收入的工作岗位，寻找更好的机会。

The so-called quits rate, or the rate of Americans exiting employment of their own will, reached a 17-year high in January of last year, doubling from the depths of the last recession.

所谓的离职率，即美国人自愿离职的比率，在去年一月达到17年来的最高水平，比上次经济衰退的深度翻了一番。

The share of workers with a college education—particularly a bachelor's or advanced degree, like Rogan—also rose quickly.

受过大学教育，尤其是像罗根这样拥有学士或更高学位的工人比例也迅速上升。

Until 2012, most workers only completed high school; since then, most have an associate degree or some college experience.

直到2012年，大多数工人只完成了高中学业；从那以后，大多数人都有副学位或一些大学经历。

Rogan says the rewards of his old job went beyond pay: "There was health insurance, we had biweekly happy hours, it was a great culture."

罗根表示，他以前工作的回报不仅是工资：“有医疗保险，我们每两周都有去酒吧的快乐时光，这是一种很棒的文化。”

Now "it feels like everything is collapsing² at once." He adds, "I was lucky enough to have some savings³.

现在“感觉一切都在一下子崩溃了。”他补充说，“我很幸运有一些积蓄。

I didn't file taxes for last year, so I didn't get the $1,200 stimulus⁴ check.

我去年没有报税，所以没有收到1200美元的刺激经济的个人支票。

I'm mostly trying to make food at home and stretch my dollars. I'm eating a lot of tuna fish and beans."

我主要是想在家里做点吃的，然后花掉我的钱，我吃了很多金枪鱼和豆子。”

It was early March when Ashley Nash first heard from her manager about a quickly spreading virus.

三月初，阿什利·纳什第一次从她的经理那儿听说，病毒正在迅速传播。

"I thought, 'Oh wow, I wonder when that's going to get here?'" the 30-year-old Los Angeles resident recalls. She was fired that month, just two weeks after starting.

“我想，‘哇，我想知道什么时候病毒会到这儿？’”这位30岁的洛杉矶居民回忆道。她那个月遭到解雇，就在开始工作两周后。

Nash, who had previously⁵ worked at Macy's and Ross Stores, landed the sales associate position at a clothing store on Santa Monica's promenade⁶，

纳什以前曾在梅西百货和罗斯百货工作，申请职位不久后，

a busy open-air shopping district, soon after applying. "I interviewed on a Sunday and came in on a Monday," she says.

就在圣莫尼卡漫步街的一家服装店找到了销售助理的职位，“我在一个周日去做的面试，周一到岗，”她说。

1 salesperson   

n.售货员，营业员，店员

参考例句：

• A salesperson works in a shop.售货员在商店工作。
• Vanessa is a salesperson in a woman's wear department.凡妮莎是女装部的售货员。

2 collapsing   

压扁[平]，毁坏，断裂

参考例句：

• Rescuers used props to stop the roof of the tunnel collapsing. 救援人员用支柱防止隧道顶塌陷。
• The rocks were folded by collapsing into the center of the trough. 岩石由于坍陷进入凹槽的中心而发生褶皱。

3 savings   

n.存款，储蓄

参考例句：

• I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假，那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
• By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时，他的存款已全部用完。

4 stimulus   

n.刺激，刺激物，促进因素，引起兴奋的事物

参考例句：

• Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
• Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。

5 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

6 promenade   

n./v.散步

参考例句：

• People came out in smarter clothes to promenade along the front.人们穿上更加时髦漂亮的衣服，沿着海滨散步。
• We took a promenade along the canal after Sunday dinner.星期天晚饭后我们沿着运河散步。