因為工作經驗還不夠豐富,我常看職涯顧問Penelope Trunk的blog 解惑。

我喜歡她的文章,不需要英文程度很好也可以輕易看懂。連平常公事上的email往來,我也模仿她的風格,用簡明扼要的英文書寫,並且架構清楚:提出一個總題,列出解決條目3-5項,每段最多5句話,然後總結。

今天看的這兩篇:「九個職場上的工作迷思」,「十個本世紀的職場諮詢上的工作迷思」,有幾段讓我不得不畫重點,貼到自己blog上 ^_^:

The Nine Biggest Myths of the Workplace】 by Penelope Trunk


迷思3. The glass ceiling still exists.. 玻璃天花板仍然存在.

The glass ceiling is over, not because people crashed through, but because people are not looking up. (原來如此。)Life above the glass ceiling is 100-hour weeks, working for someone else, and no time for friends and family. (說得好啊這種生活也不是我要的,所以何必去擠那個玻璃天花板呢?。) And it’s not only women who are saying no to the ladder up: Men are as well. People want to customize success for themselves, not climb someone else rungs.(←這句讚。) So if no one is climbing to the top, the glass ceiling isn’t keeping anyone down.

迷思 8. Work hard and good things will come. 努力工作就會有好報酬
... Grand thinking requires space, flexibility and time. (← 超級同意,而且我這個懶鬼是work smart, but not hard的信徒,寧願多花點時間想清楚,也不想在那邊瞎做...)

迷思2. Job-hopping will hurt you. 跳槽對你有害

Job hopping is one of the best ways to maintain passion and personal growth in your careers. And here’s some good news for hoppers: Most people will have eight jobs between the time they are eighteen and thirty. (原來美國人在30歲以前大多數都換了八個工作!)This means most young workers are job hopping.

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Ten Questions With Penelope Trunk: 【Career Guidance for This Century


Q4: When should I ask for a promotion? (←這正是我最近在想的問題)

Answer: Maybe never. The average salary increase is four percent. Is that going to change your life in any meaningful way? On top of that, someone is promoting you up their ladder, but their ladder is not necessarily your best path. So stay focused on where you want to go instead of the paths other people have created for you. (←沒錯,生涯規劃的主控權應該自己掌握,而不是靠老闆賞賜。)

Getting a promotion is so last century. Instead of letting last century’s carrots dictate your workplace rewards, figure out what will be really meaningful to you: training, mentoring, flex time, whatever it is that means more than four percent more money. (←我沒讀這篇文章之前就這麼想過。所謂的成功,應該是高高興興的做自己能夠勝任的工作,並且過自己喜歡做的生活吧。4%的加薪往往是更多的加班,對生活品質有多大幫助呢?)These are all things that can really improve your life and your career.


Q7: Will getting an MBA or any other type of advanced degree be a good use of time and money since I can’t find a job?(←這是所有人都會的問題吧)

我同意的是這段:....Grad school generally makes you less employable, not more employable. For example, people who get a graduate degree in the humanities would have had a better chance of surviving the Titanic than getting a tenured teaching job.

寫得太好了!我以前一直沒辦法跟我妹解釋清楚,為什麼以她的狀況我不贊成她申請美國研究所。當時她很不高興,總說“你自己有念就叫別人不要念喔!這什麼意思!!“看了這一段,我知道怎麼跟她解釋這件事了。


大部分的職涯規劃,都建議:「要念研究所就要念領域中最好的TOP 10學校。 隨便挑一家念,對就業並沒有幫助。」相關的中文文章可以參考意識形態咖啡館的【讓生涯願景決定你要不要考研究所】系列文章。

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