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Let me guess, you are ___ bored at work, you watch for the clock to strike 5 o’clock, and you can’t stand the people that you work with. If you are nodding your head right now, then you might need a change of scenery. What we have to change is not the work place, but the ___. If you enjoy the work you were doing, you might be able to get over the fact that you can’t stand the people around you. You may have thought about switching careers in the past, but you were paralyzed with fear. Here are some excuses that might be holding you back from jumping to a ___ career. I only have experience in the current career that I’m in. How do I decide on a career ___ any experience? I don’t have the right degree for the career that I want to be in. No one gives me an interview when I turn in applications. I don’t have the skills ___ to qualify for a different career. Let me be the first, the second, or maybe the one hundredth person to tell you that you don’t need to let these mental barriers keep you from transitioning to a different career. New generation often lives longer than the other, because new technology allows us to live ___ and fuller lives. The idea that we will pick and keep one career for the rest of our lives is quickly fading away. ___ show that the average person switches jobs every three years. This isn’t ___ switching new careers, but it proves the point that very few people these days are faithful to one company, let alone one career. And that is okay. ___ careers may be the best thing that ever happened to you. You’ll get a fresh lease on life. You’ll find that you have a little more hop in your step, and any moments of depression may start to fade away. Make sure that you don’t switch from one boring career to another. If you are going to take the plunge and switch careers, make sure it’s a career that you are ___ about and have a desire to work at every day.
Are you a fashion slave, ___ all your money on the latest clothes even if you don’t look good in them, or a fashion fan, enjoying wearing modern clothes but not obsessed by them? Every year London Fashion Week attracts retailers, fashion leaders, and the press to show all that’s new in British fashion. Fantastic designs, original fabrics, and beautiful slim models are ___ on the catwalk. ___, how much of this gets translated into street fashion, appearing in high street shops? And how many of us actually follow the trends we see? In fact clothes ___ people’s tastes, and it’s also important to wear the right clothes for the right occasion. So clothes actually give you a lot of information about the person who’s wearing them. We all need to be ___ with what we wear. After all, ___ impressions count, and we want our appearance to be consistent with the image we would like to project. How can we do this without becoming a fashion slave? We are bombarded with magazines that show us the new ___ for each season, and ___ we can buy trendy clothes for reasonable prices. The distinction between what we see on the catwalk and what’s on display in the high street is becoming increasingly blurred. What a person chooses to wear can reflect that person’s personality or likes. When people who have cultural status start to wear new or different clothes, a fashion trend may start. People who like or respect them ___ start to wear clothes of a similar style. But our bodies all come in different shapes and sizes, so to avoid stares and sniggers in the street, we should develop our own shopping ___.
For a penetrating look at the differences between Brits and Americans, a new book, “Watching the English”, by Kate Fox, is ___. It first seems ___ to New York. But Americans are not the same as the British—and we don’t want to be. We must pretend, however, or risk being labeled “American” with all that implies. Danger areas include: British politics: Don’t say nice things about the Labour Party. Don’t favor the Conservative Party (英国保守党). Say the Queen is a bore, or a lizard. Business talk at the club: Most gentlemen’s clubs ___ business talk at lunch. If you pull out papers for discussion, you will be stopped by a waiter and told, “Not your plane here, sir,” after which you will feel embarrassed and lose your ___. Boundaries of conversations: Since this will take a lifetime to figure out, let them lead the way. In general, the weather is always a good way ___. Shouting: Leave your oversized laugh (笑) at home. British wives do not shout “Hey, Marty, come here!” across a hotel lobby. False friendliness: Americans like their relationships a mile wide and an inch deep. The Brits are the opposite. First names of strangers: Don’t use a person’s first name until something personal has happened between you and her or him. Excessive dental care: Brits think Americans have an unhealthy ___ with straight teeth. Now Americans are even getting their teeth whitened before job interviews, and they find this insane. Painful handshakes: About 50 years ago some American wrote a business book claiming that a firm handshake represents ___. Each successive generation followed the advice a bit more. This is fine if both parties are playing, otherwise there will be pain. In Britain, the weak handshake is considered more polite. ___ eye contact: That same book said steady eye contact means you’re really interested and sincere. Not true. It means someone told you about the book. To the Brits, staring is indecent and wary. Too much money: Money does not ___ into status here; family does. Don’t mention your income, the value of your house. You probably shouldn’t mention your family, either. Casual behavior: Too much casual behavior ___ to rudeness. Watch them and do what they do. Fitness: To the great mass of Brits, fitness is an unknown concept. In the acres of beautiful parks in central London, you may see a few joggers. How can you tell the difference? Loud clothes: Men prefer ___ colors. Don’t wear your plain (格子呢) trousers, your pink sports coat or your Donald Duck tie.
The Wright brothers, the inventors of powered flight in the United States, spent hours watching birds. As boring as it seems, we have bird-watching to thank for the supersonic (超音速的) jet ___ we have today. Picasso’s development of cubism (立体派), one of the great artistic movements of the last two centuries, was heavily ___ by his exposure to African painting styles, as well as the work of an older French painter, Cezanne. And Thomas Edison did not ___ the concept of powered light: You’d have to talk to the thousands of people who died before Edison was born who turned wood, wax, oil, and other fuels into controllable and portable ___ sources (not to mention Joseph Swan, who patented the electric light before Edison). Even in today’s high-technology world you can find easy ___ between what we call “new” and ideas from the ___. The World Wide Web and the Internet get their names from things thousands of years old. The first webs were made by spiders, and the first nets were used to catch fish by indigenous people around the world, thousands of years before the first ___. Google, the wonderful search tool, is often called a search ___, in reference to concepts of physical mechanics, not digital bits. All these examples prove that the trick to ___ is to widen your perspective on what qualifies as new. As long as your idea, or your use of an existing idea, is new to the person you are creating it for, or applies an existing concept in a ___ way, you qualify as an innovator from their point of view, and that’s all that matters.
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