接着，他们应讲讲赞美勤奋工作的逆耳忠言。可悲的是这些话如今已过时了。

When I had just graduated, my then boyfriend – who had been hired by investment bank Salomon Brothers – was instructed by the chief executive, John Gutfruend, to arrive every day “ready to bite the ass off of a bear”. The fact that I can remember his words three decades later is partly because I love the way Americans say “off of”, but it’s also because the advice was so good.

我刚毕业的时候，所罗门兄弟公司(Salomon Brothers)首席执行官约翰•古特弗洛恩德(John Gutfruend)告诉我当时的男朋友——那时他已被该投资银行聘用——每天上班要“准备摸老虎屁股(ready to bite the ass off of a bear)”。三十年后我还记得他的原话，这部分是因为我喜欢美国人说“off of”的方式，不过也是因为这条建议太棒了。

As well as changing their work ethic, graduates also need to change their employment status. They need jobs. What no one ever tells them in commencement addresses is that even a bad job is better than none at all.

毕业生除了要转变职业道德，还需要改变他们的就业状况。他们需要工作。没人在毕业典礼上告诉他们，坏工作也比没工作好。

I know a young graduate who has just been hired to hand out licences to taxi cabs in deepest south London. It’s dull, but it’s better than being unemployed, which is what she was before. Graduates should be told not to lose heart: as their working lives will last 50 or 60 years, a slow start is not a disaster.

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