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经济学家:巴托比职场专栏-年轻人的工作偏好与就业市场不匹配(1)
Business
来自商业版块
Bartleby
巴托比职业专栏
Teenage picks
青少年的选择
Some unfortunate mismatches in young people’s job preferences and prospects
遗憾的是，年轻人在工作偏好和就业前景上的错位
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The world of work is changing. Are people ready for the new job outlook? A survey of 15-year-olds across 41countries by the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries, found that teenagers may have unrealistic expectations about the kind of work that will be available.Four of the ve most popular choices were traditional professional roles: doctors, teachers, business managers and lawyers. Teenagers clustered around the most popular jobs, with the top ten being chosen by 47% of boys and 53% of girls. Those shares were signicantly higher than when the survey was conducted back in 2000.
译文
工作场所正在发生变化。人们准备好迎接新的工作前景了吗？由富裕国家组成的国际经合组织对41个国家的15岁青少年进行了调查。在五个最受欢迎的选择中，有四个是传统的专业社会角色：医生、教师、企业经理和律师。青少年选择最受欢迎的工作，前10名最受欢迎的工作由47%的男孩和53%的女孩选择。这一比例明显高于2000年调查时的水平。
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The rationale for this selection was partly down to wishful thinking on the part of those surveyed (designers, actors and musical performers were three of the top 15 jobs). Youth must be allowed a bit of hope. When Bartleby was a teenager, his ambitions were to play cricket for England and become prime minister; neither ambition was achieved (a lucky escape for the country on both counts).
译文
这种选择的原因在一定程度上可以归一厢情愿(前15份最受欢迎的工作中有3份是设计师、演员和音乐表演者)。 一定要给年轻人一点希望。 巴托比十几岁时，他的抱负是为英格兰打板球，成为英国首相； 这两个目标都没有实现(英国在这两个方面都幸免于难)。
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Furthermore, teenagers can hardly be expected to have an in-depth knowledge of the minutiae of labour-market trends. They will have encountered doctors and teachers in their daily lives. Other popular professions, such as lawyers and police ocers, will be familiar from lms and social media. But many people end up in jobs they would not have heard of in their school years. You settle for what is available.
译文
此外，青少年很难对劳动力市场趋势的细节有深入的了解。 在日常生活中，他们可以遇到医生和老师。 律师和警察等其他流行职业在电影和社交媒体中也很常见。 但许多人最终从事了他们在学生时代从未听说过的工作。 勉强接受能做的工作。
注释
settle for 勉强接受
Virginia was a perfectionist. She was just not prepared to settle for anything mediocre.
弗吉尼娅是个完美主义者。她不能勉强接受任何平庸的事情。
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