TED英文演说-最好的职业道路并不总是一条直线中英文演讲稿.docx

第 第 PAGE 1 页 The best career path isnt always a straight line 00:10 Helen Tupper: When we met at university 20 years ago, we made for unlikely friends. Im an extrovert who gets involved in everything and talks to anyone, 00:20 Sarah Ellis: ... and Im an introverted ideas person who finds extroverts energizing but a bit intimidating. 00:26 HT: Despite our differences, we both had an ambition to climb the ladder and have a successful career. 00:33 SE: We were motivated by how far and how fast we could progress, and we thought that our route to the top would look something a bit like this. And in those first few years of work, we were all about promotions and pay rises. We were preoccupied by the positions that we held and how senior our job titles sounded. And on the surface, everything seemed to be on track. But we started to get the sense that the ladder might actually be holding us back. The obvious next step wasnt always the most appealing, and we were both excited about exploring opportunities that werent necessarily based on what wed done before. It wasnt what wed anticipated, but our careers had started to look and feel much more like this. Squiggly. 01:19 HT: A squiggly career is both full of uncertainty and full of possibility. Change is happening all of the time. Some of it is in our control, and some of its not. Success isnt one-size-fits-all. Our squiggles are as individual as we are. And for me, thats meant a career where Ive moved from working on foldable credit cards in one company -- they didnt catch on -- to building and launching a loyalty app for another. And that one is still going. 01:48 SE: And Ive moved from making magazines to working on food waste, from a five- to a four-day week so I could spend more time on personal projects and volunteering. Ive already had more jobs and worked in more organizations than my dad, and hes been working for twice as long as I have. And Im the rule, not the exception. 02:09 HT: When we started to shar