第一篇:A gap year is constructive time out
A gap year is constructive time outor even taking time out to change your career.It is about living life to the full and realising that there is a world of opportunity out there just waiting to be explored...间隔年,是一个很有建设性意义的旅行休息。你可以在任何的时候,前往任何地方,去做任何你想做的事。你可以去往智利建造一所学校,可以积累一些工作的经验,你可以在斐济的沙滩上晒晒太阳又或者只是简简单单的去工作一年为大学或一所新房子存下足够的钱,或甚至是花时间去改变你的职业生涯。活出一个完满的生活,去发现去探索这个世界上正等待着我们的机会...In the UK a 'gap year' was traditionally viewed as the activity of taking time out before university.The word on the street was that it involved travel for the wealthy few and pretty much nothing for the rest of us.Nowadays, however, all sorts of people are taking ‘gaps’, doing a thousand different things.A gap year is now one of the most talked about phenomena of this millennium.With the baby-boomer generation fast approaching retirement, globalisation changing the nature of society and young people now heading into a life of 'portfolio careers', taking time out is now seen as a positive, rather than a negative thing.在英国,间隔年传统意义上被视作大学前的旅行。从前,间隔年被看做是少数富人的旅行,很少与我们有关。但今天,不同的人都在进行着他们的间隔年活动,千百样不同的事正在他们身上进行着。间隔年是这个世纪被谈论最多的现象之一。随着婴儿潮出生的人们即将退休,全球化改变着这个社会的本质,年轻人们正在走向一个“组合型职业生涯”的生活,花时间去间隔年活动已经不再被视为是一种坏事而是一种积极的事。
Life is a series of 'gaps'
生活是由一个又一个间隔衔接而成的Pre-university gaps, during and post-university gaps, careergaps, pre and post-baby gaps, post-wedding gaps, pre-retirement gaps-the list goes on.From the age of 18, people will now become 'serial gappers' as they head through each life stage, taking a 'gap' to prepare themselves for the transition ahead.The result will be a change in the mentality of society, away from the 'live to work, work to live' routine of a slow climb up a career ladder to a more exciting life path which simply involves doing what they enjoy in life and achieving that dream.进行间隔年的时间有很多,步入大学之前,在校期间或是毕业之后,工作间隙,生宝宝之前或是生完以后,婚后旅行又或者是退休前的旅行。间隔年的选择正在不断的增加着。从18岁起,人们开始跨越一个个的间隔,用一个间隔的时间来为前方的转变做好准备。结果将会是社会心态的改变,远离“活着是为了工作,工作是为了工作”这样一个常态,在职业生涯的梯子上慢慢的往上爬。改为走上一条更为刺激的生活道路,在这条道路上做自己所想做的,去实现自己的梦想。
有人在Gap Year开始了自己的旅途,有人在旅途上不断的摸索去追寻自己的梦,有人也因此实现了自我。
Matt, 一个追梦的人。曾经就职于一家视频游戏公司,每天按部就班的生活工作着,他以为自己就会这样过一辈子。直到有一天,他突然发现自己似乎不该这么生活下去。于是在2003
年他辞去了澳洲的工作,用自己赚来的钱开始了自己的Gap Year-全球之旅。Matt在14个月访问了超过43个国家,每到一地就与当地人一起欢乐起舞,并且录制下来传到网上。谁曾想到,Matt因其独特的舞蹈红遍了网络,不同地方的人们随着他在世界的不同角落继续起舞。
Life is short.Why waste your time doing things you don't enjoy?!
生命很短,为何要去浪费时间做自己不喜欢的事呢?