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What is the key factor for the author to choose jobs during her working holiday?

When did the author start her first job abroad?

Why did the author no longer feel lonely after working for about a week?

Where did the author meet her boyfriend Richy?

What kind of job was the lift attendant position for the author?

What did Henry do immediately after graduating from Harvard?

Why did Henry quit his first teaching job?

When did Henry publish his first book?

What is the myth mentioned about the transition to adulthood?

Which of the following is NOT an optional trapping of adulthood in the US?

What practical help did the hotel housekeeping job offer the author?

Where did the author do the hotel housekeeping job?

Most of the hotel housekeeping work was ______.

What was a downside of working in the fields?

Why did the author want to "hold onto that short-lived sense of ownership"?

One of the best things about a working holiday is the absolute endless number of job experiences you can have. If there is one thread that could connect the 14 positions I held during my two and a half years abroad, I guess it would be that the work was generally chosen based off the place I wanted to be, and not the other way around. I now realize how much I’ve learned from having to adapt to every new role and work across a variety of industries with different groups of people. Professional development may be important, but so is character-building, right? Waitress at a politically-themed restaurant in Wellington, New Zealand I applied to my very first job abroad because I was eyeing a spot at their wine and coffee shop next door, but the managers had other plans for me. I started work on Valentine’s Day. It was a week after I’d moved to Wellington, two weeks after I’d left home, and smack in the middle of a bout of debilitating homesickness. Luckily, my bosses kept me so busy that after a week or so I no longer had time to think about being lonely. I was brought into the fold of a tight group of coworkers who became great friends, and I began to feel a little more at home in my new city. Between the wild sports events we hosted, the parliament members who came in at happy hour, and a couple of bad-tempered old regulars that I became quite fond of, the restaurant gave me a good education on the strange culture of the Land of the Long White Cloud. Lift attendant at a ski resort in Queenstown, New Zealand Becoming a liftie on the South Island gave me the platform to begin exploring the New Zealand that I had moved across the world for. The majority of the friends I’ve made travelling are from Queenstown. I met my boyfriend, Richy, three years ago during that first season, and we’ve been on the road together ever since. Oh, and the job: what beats watching the sun rise across a sleepy, sheep-dotted valley from the top of a ski mountain, spending your work hours playing in the snow, and catching a few sneaky runs while rotating shifts? This was my first occupation that revolved around labouring, mechanical knowledge and the outdoors. It’s ruined me for a desk job ever since.【缺少答案，请补充】

It would probably be fair to call Henry “aimless.” After he graduated from Harvard, he moved back in with his parents, a growing trend among young adults completing university. Despite graduating into a recession, Henry managed to get a teaching job, but two weeks later, he decided it wasn’t for him and quit. It took him a while to find his calling — he worked in his father’s pencil factory, as a door-to-door magazine salesman, took on other teaching and tutoring gigs, and even spent a brief time shoveling manure before finding some success with his true passion: writing. Henry published his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, when he was 31 years old, after 12 years of changing jobs and bouncing back and forth between his parents’ home, living on his own, and staying with a friend who believed in his potential. “[He] is a scholar & a poet & as full of buds of promise as a young apple tree,” his friend wrote, and eventually was proven right. He may have made mistakes during young adulthood, but Henry David Thoreau turned out pretty okay. (The friend he stayed with, for the record, was Ralph Waldo Emerson.) And his path was not atypical of the 19th century, at least for a white man in the United States. Young people often went through periods of independence interspersed with periods of dependence. If that seems surprising, it’s only because of the myth that the transition to adulthood was more seamless and smoother in the past. In fact, people did not become adults any kind of predictable way. Age alone does not an adult make. But what does? In the United States, people are getting married and having kids later in life, but those are just optional trappings of adulthood, not the thing itself. Psychologists talk of a period of prolonged adolescence, or emerging adulthood, that lasts into the 20s, but when have you emerged? What makes you finally, really, an adult?【缺少答案，请补充】

Which of the following is NOT an optional trapping of adulthood in the US? A little more than a month into our year in Australia, with bank accounts that were looming just above zero, Richy and I moved from Melbourne down to the coastal town of Torquay. We'd come to live and work as housekeepers at a small hotel run by a lovely Chilean-American/Australian family. For three months, the two of us, the owners, their three children, and Kari, the American au pair, shared a home and the duties of maintaining both house and guesthouse. It was autumn along the Great Ocean Road, and, since the job was mostly part-time, we spent the remainder of our days surfing, biking, and enjoying the quiet of a resort town outside of peak season. The job provided a way to save much needed funds while living rent-free and gave us a family away from our family. Along with a full-time job at a takeaway café in town, labouring on a vineyard was the finale in my working holiday experience. The small plot of land up a dirt road in one of Australia's famed wine regions also served as our home. In the evenings, after work in town, we'd head out to the fields for an hour or two and work through the rows thinning vines and raising wires. It was tedious, but (maybe more in hindsight) I really liked it. We were out there on our own, working with our hands at a single task. Apart from the swarms of flies it was almost meditative. It also helped ease my fear of big spiders. More than the job, living on the farm was the experience I miss. A few weeks before leaving Australia I remember looking out at all the country around me and realizing the freedom and the peace I felt. Knowing my life would be uprooted again in no time, I wanted to hold onto that fleeting sense of ownership as long as I could.【缺少答案，请补充】

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