雅思考試，除了我們所說的題海戰術啊，還有從各路前輩那邊學來的備考復習計劃，個人覺得還是需要讀一些英文素材的。不僅僅是應對雅思考試，對我們的英文水平提高也是很有幫助的！那本文這里主要是和大家分享一篇關于當下熱點--工作有關的文章。文中附有批注，文末有涉及到的一些雅思詞匯，包括雅思考試真題的相關內容，希望大家認真學習。祝大家都能取得好成績！

For London-based Michelle Brideau, 10 years in the travel industry felt like an eternity(永恒). What started as low pay and high stress — but great perks(外快) — had evolved(進化) into low pay, high stress, no perks and lots of competition from the internet. (開始的時候收入低，壓力大，但是有不少外快，后來演變成了收入低，壓力大，卻沒有了外快，而且還要面臨來自因特網的巨大競爭。)

Brideau was ready for a change. She considered running a mobile coffee cart for commuters(定期上下班的人)in her neighborhood but the idea of London winters spent outside quickly nixed(對……說不;否決)those plans. (她考慮針對定期上下班的人搞一個咖啡推車，但是想到要在外面度過倫敦的冬天，她很快就否決了這些計劃。)She decided on a career in technology.

The problem: no experience.

At some point in almost everyone’s career comes the desire to change fields and try something completely different. But one of the most common stumbling blocks(絆腳石)to making a dramatic career change is a lack of experience in the new field. Gaining that experience often means taking what can feel like a giant step backwards in your career, whether it’s by re-entering the student world or signing on for an internship(見習). (為了獲得經驗，你要沒有重新進入學生的世界，或者報名參加實習，這都會讓你感覺自己的事業往后退了一大步。)Choices like these can be financially draining(耗盡的) in the short term, but the long-term hope is that they will pay off before too long.

Back to basics

Brideau needed to learn to code if she was going to launch a career in technology. But she’d been under the impression it would take years of schoolwork to learn what she needed to in order to make the switch, she said in an email. Then she heard about the Makers Academy, a highly selective coding program in London that teaches web development. The intensive(密集的，高強度的) 10-week program, (it now costs ￡7200 and is three months long) meant Brideau was studying code whenever she “wasn’t eating or sleeping.”

With the coding experience under her belt, Brideau spent two months looking for the right job or internship. “I made sure to get out into the developer community as much as possible: meet ups, events, conferences, job fairs and such,” she said. “I also went to interviews, was invited to do code exercises as part of the job application process and I continued to study at home.”

Eventually, through the connections she made, Brideau landed a six-month paid code-writing internship at London-based Enternships, which places students and recent graduates in positions with starts ups(剛成立的公司) and small businesses. Once her internship is over, she hopes to find a position as a junior coder.

“The hardest part was taking the leap to doing something so completely different than I have ever done previously,” said Brideau. She likened(將……比作)it to the move she had made from Canada to the UK. “You keep moving forward with a lot of unanswered questions not knowing how it will all turn out until one day you find yourself at home in your new surroundings.”(你一直往前走，心里有很多無解的問題，也不知道終點在哪里，直到有一天，你發現自己熟悉了新的環境。)

Internships represent one of the best ways to gain experience and get a foot in the door(加入，進入) in today’s project-based economy, said Larry Stybel, a principal at Stybel Peabody & Associates Inc, a leadership coaching and senior outplacement firm in Waltham, Massachusetts.

It’s important to define your “compensation”(補償) before starting an internship, according to Stybel. It can be more than monetary(金錢的). “It could be a title for your resume or a commitment for a good reference,” he said. If you don’t ask for what you want, at some point you are going to “feel like you’re being taken advantage of.

Get experience in less time-intensive ways

Obviously, not everyone can afford to pay thousands of dollars or euros for a three-month class — or take the time off for coursework or a full-time internship. But you can still get valuable experience. Many jobs have become more project-oriented in recent years, said Stybel. So, for example, helping out or learning the ropes(找竅門，熟悉情況) by working on the company’s website, therefore, can be done during off hours or on the weekends and from home.

Work shadowing(跟學) and volunteer positions are other ways to build up experience without leaving your current position, according to Sab Byrne, online editor of Careershifters.org, a London-based career-change advice website. If someone in your organisation is working at a role that interests you, ask if you can shadow them for a few hours or offer to help out on a short-term project. You can also reach out to people in your networks or your university alumni association(校友會) for recommendations of people who might be willing to have you shadow them.

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