雅思课外读物：How to make a dramatic career change？

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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(进化) into low pay, high stress, no perks and lots of competition from

the internet. (开始的时候收入低，压力大，但是有不少外快，后来演变成了收入低，压力大，却没有了外快，而且还要面临来自因特网的巨大竞争。)

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(对……说不;否决)those plans.

(她考虑针对定期上下班的人搞一个咖啡推车，但是想到要在外面度过伦敦的冬天，她很快就否决了这些计划。)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(绊脚石)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(见习).

(为了获得经验，你要没有重新进入学生的世界，或者报名参加实习，这都会让你感觉自己的事业往后退了一大步。)Choices like these can be

financially draining(耗尽的) 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，高强度的) 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(刚成立的公司) 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(将……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，心里有很多无解的问题，也不知道终点在哪里，直到有一天，你发现自己熟悉了新的环境。)

Internships represent one of the best ways to gain experience and get a foot

in the door(加入，进入) 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”(补偿) before starting an

internship, according to Stybel. It can be more than monetary(金钱的). “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(找窍门，熟悉情况) by working on the company’s website, therefore,

can be done during off hours or on the weekends and from home.

Work shadowing(跟学) 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(校友会) for recommendations of people who might be willing to have you

shadow them.