你在多大的年纪就知道你想做什么(一)
At what age did you know what you wanted to do with your life?译文简介
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At what age did you know what you wanted to do with your life?
你在多大的年纪就知道你想做什么?
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When I was around 9 or 10 and in fourth grade, my parents started giving me Knight Kits as Christmas and birthday presents. (My dad had built radios as a kid and had been a communications officer in WW2.) Over the next several years I built short wave radios, stereo equipment, intercoms, CB radios and test equipment — everything but the portable CB radios still used vacuum tubes.
About the time I started junior high, I got hold of a working pinball machine that had been confiscated in a gambling raid. Rather than just endlessly playing it like any normal kid, I dismantled it for its parts. I was fascinated by the relays and other electromechanical components.
I built what I called a digital computer using the parts from the pinball machine parts, but it was actually just a glorified electromechanical calculator that could add, subtract, and multiply — it wasn’t really programmable. But still a decent science fair project for a 13-year-old student in 1960. I can’t remember if I won, but I did get some sort of Westinghouse Science award.
当我9岁或10岁左右,四年级时,我的父母开始给我骑士套装作为圣诞节和生日礼物。(我父亲小时候就制造过收音机,在二战中担任过通信官员。)在接下来的几年里,我制造了短波收音机、立体声设备、对讲机、 民用波段电台收音机和测试设备——除了便携式民用波段电台收音机外,其他所有设备都使用真空管。
大约在我上初中的时候,我找到了一台正在工作的弹球机,它在一次赌博袭击中被没收了。我不再像普通孩子一样没完没了地玩它,而是把它拆了下来。我被继电器和其他机电元件迷住了。
我用弹球机的零件制造了一台我称之为数字计算机的计算机,但它实际上只是一台美化了的机电计算器,可以进行加法、减法和乘法运算——它不是真正可编程的。但在1960年,对于一个13岁的学生来说,这仍然是一个像样的科学博览会项目。我不记得我是否赢了,但我确实获得了某种西屋科学天才奖。
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I became friends with the manager of our local Bell telephone office. It was a crossbar office, but there were still several smaller towns around us that were converting from older step-by-step systems. When that happened, they would literally destroy the old equipment with axes so competitors could not salvage it.
This manager knew about my interest in relays, and would let me know when an office was being converted, so I could have first dibs on any equipment before it was destroyed. I got dozens and dozens of working telephone relays this way to use in various projects. This ignited my love affair with all things to do with telephones.
When I was a sophomore in high school, I was sexted to compete in a multi-state science fair in a neighboring state. A nearby university (Iowa State, where I would later get my BSEE at) flew me and other participants to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign where the fair was to take place in one of their private planes.
While on campus, I wandered into the campus bookstore and browsed the EE section. There I found a book called The Design of Switching Circuits, written by members of the technical staff at Bell Labs in 1951, which was all about relay switching circuits and Boolean algebra. I stayed up most of the night and drew up all of the Boolean equations for my project. The next day, I wrote them out during an oral presentation to the judges.
所以大概是在这一点上,我知道我想把设计和建造这样的东西作为一种职业。
我和当地贝尔电话局的经理成了朋友。这是一个交叉的办公室,但我们周围还有几个较小的城镇正在从旧的分步系统改造。当这种情况发生时,他们真的会用斧头摧毁旧设备,这样竞争对手就无法抢救了。
这位经理知道我对继电器很感兴趣,并会在办公室改建时告诉我,这样我就能在任何设备被摧毁前抢先使用。我用这种方式得到了几十个工作电话继电器,可以在各种项目中使用。这点燃了我对所有与电话有关的事情的热爱。
当我上高中二年级时,我被选中参加邻近州的一个多州科学博览会。附近的一所大学(爱荷华州立大学,我后来在那里获得学士学位)将我和其他参与者空运到伊利诺伊大学香槟分校(university of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign),展会将在那里的一架私人飞机上举行。
在校园里,我走进校园书店,浏览了电子工程师部分的书籍。在那里,我找到了一本书,名叫《开关电路的设计》,这本书是贝尔实验室的技术人员于1951年写的,内容都是关于继电器开关电路和布尔代数的。我熬夜了大半个晚上,为我的项目起草了所有的布尔方程。第二天,我在给评委的口头陈述中把它们写了出来。
After graduation, I went to work at my dream job, at an R&D lab which was part of GTE (General Telephone and Electronics) designing digital logic for one of the first electronic telephone switches sold to the independent (non-Bell) telephone industry. I got the first four of my 28 patents on that project.
As I was working on that project, I realized that a lot of my hard-wired logic could be done with computers in the future (I was assuming a minicomputer like the PDP-8, since this was just before the first microprocessor, Intel 4004 was invented), so I went back and got an MS in Computer Science while working there.
Since then, I have had a successfully career sometimes designing hardware, sometimes software, or both like I am currently doing. I’m still working full-time at the age of 74 with no plans to retire.
所以我的专业是电气工程,这几乎是理所当然的。爱荷华州立大学离这里很近(40英里远),有一个优秀的电子工程系。我最感兴趣的是数字逻辑设计,因为我过去参与过电话交换逻辑。
毕业后,我得到了理想的工作,在一个研发实验室工作,该实验室是GTE(通用电话和电子)的一部分,为出售给独立(非贝尔)电话行业的第一个电子电话交换机之一设计数字逻辑。我获得了该项目28项专利中的前四项。
在我从事这个项目的时候,我意识到我的很多硬接线逻辑将来都可以用计算机来完成(我假设是像PDP-8这样的小型计算机,因为这是在第一台微处理器Intel 4004发明之前),所以我回去工作时获得了计算机科学硕士学位。
从那以后,我有了一个成功的事业,有时设计硬件,有时设计软件,或两者兼而有之,就像我现在做的一样。我74岁时仍在全职工作,没有退休计划。
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I’ve been thinking about this from the first day my people started advising me about my life and future. When I thought people were asking me what to become, they wanted to know where I will study, how much marks I wanted to get, how much I wanted to earn and own. Nothing else.
I followed the herd unintentionally. I scored average marks in 10th board exams. I took computer science because I was not good at drawing which the biology stream required, also I didn’t want to ba an accountant for no reason. Hence commerce stream also was rejected.
I sucked big time in computer science. I didn’t like programming at all. I struggled a lot with other subjects too. Hence with almost same average score in 12th board exams, I opted for Electronics to get away from Computer Science.
Somebody said I would be qualified to both join core industry and IT industry with a degree in Electronics.
I wasn’t interested in studying the core electronics subjects at all. I tried and motivated myself in different ways. I couldn’t help. Also I was in a one-sided love with a very beautiful girl. For a long time during my college days. That is how I wasted my college days.
从第一天起,我就开始给我的生活和未来出谋献策,我就一直在思考这个问题。当我想到人们问我要成为什么样的人时,他们却想知道我将在哪里学习,我想考多少分,我想挣多少钱,拥有多少财产,其余什么问题都没有。
我非故意状态下随大流。我在第十年级的大学入学考试上取得了平均分。我选择了计算机科学,因为我不擅长绘制生物学所需的图形,而且我也不想无缘无故地成为一名会计。因此,商业专业也被拒绝。
我在计算机科学方面学得很好。我一点都不喜欢编程。我在其他科目上也有很多困难。因此,在第十二届委员会考试中,我的平均成绩几乎相同,我选择了电子学来摆脱计算机科学。
有人说我有资格加入核心产业和IT产业,并获得电子学位。
我对学习电子学的核心课程一点也不感兴趣。我以不同的方式尝试和激励自己,但就是没办法。我还和一个非常漂亮的女孩一见钟情。在我上大学的时候有很长一段时间,我就是这样浪费我的大学时光的。
I’ve no idea what to do with my life. I google a lot, I read a lot for inspiration, all great stories of successful people, motivational movies, Apps, what not, for the magical spark to strike me like in movies
I even tried travelling to few places within my budget constraints.
My mom expects me to join a well-known firm so that she can proudly say that her son works in a reputed firm.
All my relatives expect me to get married, have kids, and of course attend all their functions and events without fail. 100% attendance is mandatory there.
I just learnt that the more I wait for something to guide me magically to let me know what I wanted to do with my life, the more stagnant I become.
I’m just following a simple thing - try all the things I want to do. Every day.
I’m an introvert. Hence apart from my friends at school, college, neighborhood and office, I really didn’t make friends. Now I attend meetups, random events via meetup.com. Not that I did great but I tried.
I wanted to have a pet dog. I got a puppy. But I couldn’t continue having it for more than a week. I gave it to my friend.
没有猜测。毕业后我加入了一家不太知名的软件公司。是的,作为一名程序员。已经超过3.5年了。
我不知道我的生活该怎么办。我在谷歌上搜索了很多,我读了很多关于灵感的书,所有关于成功人士的伟大故事,励志电影,应用程序,等等,希冀就像电影里那样,神奇的火花击中我。
我甚至尝试在预算有限的情况下去几个地方旅游。
我妈妈希望我加入一家知名公司,这样她就可以自豪地说,她的儿子在一家知名公司工作。
我所有的亲戚都希望我结婚生子,当然也一定会参加他们所有的活动。那是必须百分之百的出席。
我刚刚了解到,我越是等待有什么东西神奇地引导我,让我知道我想做什么,我的生活就越停滞不前。
我只是在做一件简单的事情——尝试我想做的所有事情—每一天都如此。
我是个内向的人。因此,除了我在学校、大学、社区和办公室的朋友外,我真的没有交朋友。现在我参加聚会和随机活动。不是说我做得很好,而是我努力了。
我想要一只宠物狗。我有一只小狗。但我坚持不了一个星期以上。我把它给了我的朋友。
I tried exercising and gym work-outs. Now it has become my habit.
I tried to talk to few people at Quora.
I tried to learn new things technically. I was a PHP developer. Learnt few front end frxworks, Python, github, MEAN stack.
I try to write at least one answer a week on Quora. That’s a big achievement for me.
These are the things that I did. There’re few million things like this I want to do in my life.
I feel life is all about trying different things and feeling good about it.
我试着把画画作为业余爱好。现在我能画的东西很少了,就是这样。
我试着锻炼和健身。现在这已经成为我的习惯。
我试着和Quora上的几个人交谈。
我试着从技术上学习新东西。我是一名 个人网页开发人员。学习了一些前端框架,爬虫,社交编程及代码托管网站,最终栈。
我试着每周至少在Quora上写一个答案。这对我来说是一个巨大的成就。
这些就是我做的事情。我一生中想做的事情很少。
我觉得生活就是尝试不同的事情,并且感觉良好。
I am a late bloomer. I finally realized what I want to do at the age of 73.
Until then, I felt life was not worth living. I was, in effect, just waiting to die. I had no ambition to do anything, few interests and few reasons to live.
Then I met somebody on Quora who saw potential in me and she has been my mentor ever since.
Now, I have written a book in the past 7 months and published it on Amazon last week. I am thrilled. Now, I shall go on to write another three books so my life finally has purpose and meaning.
我是个晚熟的人。73岁的时候,我终于意识到我想做什么。
在那之前,我觉得生命不值得活下去。实际上,我只是在等死。我没有什么抱负,没有啥兴趣,没有什么活下去的理由。
然后我在Quora上遇到了一个人,她看到了我的潜力,从那以后她就一直是我的导师。
现在,我在过去的7个月里写了一本书,并于上周在亚马逊上出版了它。我很激动。现在,我将继续写另外三本书,这样我的生活终于有了目标和意义。
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A Soldier.
According to my mother, I’ve wanted to be a soldier since I was six. That sounds about right. I’ve had my influences throughout my life. My family has a long (ish) history of military service. Both great grandfathers served in World War II. On my moms side, my great-granfather left Germany before the war, and enlisted in the US Navy. On my dads side, I’m told he was a British paratrooper, but I’m not sure. My grandfathers both served in Vietnam, one was a Scout Dog Handler, fighting the VC in South Vietnam. He was drafted. The other was a mechanic on F-4 Phantom fighters in the Air Force, also based in South Vietnam. He enlisted.
My dad never served, he never wanted to. He instead went to college. He was always against me joining the military, he instead wants me to go to college (Well Dad, sorry to disappoint).
So from age six on, I knew I wanted to be a soldier, but only recently decided what exactly I wanted to do
My plan is currently working. I’m doing four years of JROTC (three to go), and I take the ASVAB this year. Hopefully I’ll score high enough to qualify for 19K
Cheers!
士兵。
据我母亲说,我从六岁起就想当兵。听起来不错。我一生都受此影响。我的家族有很长的服兵役历史。两位曾祖父都曾在二战中服役。在我母亲亲戚那边,我的曾祖父在战前离开了德国,加入了美国海军。在我父亲亲戚那边,我听说他是一名英国伞兵,但我不确定。我的祖父都在越南服役,其中一位是侦察犬管理员,在南越与越共作战。他被征召入伍。另一位是同样驻扎在南越的空军F-4幻影战斗机的机修工—他应征入伍。
我爸爸从来没有服过兵役,他从来没有想过。相反,他上了大学。他一直反对我参军,他希望我上大学(嗯,爸爸,抱歉让你失望了)。
所以从六岁开始,我就知道我想成为一名士兵,但直到最近才决定我到底想做什么。
我的计划目前正在实施中。我正在参与四年的国家少年后备役军官训练营(还剩三年),今年我参加职业倾向综合测验,希望我能拿到足够高的分数来参加19K。
I don't think anyone ever really knows what they want from their life.
We - humans are constantly running after things, running after ambitions, running after dreams, running after money and so much more.
The list never ends. I want this now, when I get it I will want something else then.
And maybe that's the most important thing because that spontaneity to achieve different wantings keeps us going towards betterment.
But while running after these things we often forget why we wanted them in the first place - because we think that it will make us happy. we just want to happy and all the things we do are methods or ways to be happy.
I am nineteen for now and what I want from life is to be happy.
But now I just want to be happy. Have a home of myself, a job as a lecturer in a good college, teach my students best, have a pet cat and my own garden. This is what I want from life, for now.
Maybe my desire will again change. Who knows.
我认为没有人真正知道他们想要从生活中得到什么。
我们人类一直在追逐事物,追逐野心,追逐梦想,追逐金钱等等。
这个名单永远不会结束。我现在想要这个,当我得到它的时候,我会想要别的东西。
也许这是最重要的,因为实现不同愿望的自发性让我们不断进步。
但在追求这些东西的时候,我们往往忘记了为什么我们首先想要它们——因为我们认为这会让我们快乐。我们只想快乐,我们只是想要快乐,我们所做的一切都是为了快乐。
我现在十九岁了,我想从生活中获得快乐。
但现在我只想快乐。有一个自己的家,在一所好的大学里做讲师,最好是教学生,有一只宠物猫和自己的花园。这就是我现在想要的生活。
也许我的愿望会再次改变。谁知道呢。
Last night I was watching a TV debate in a local channel where the topic was People with Degrees vs Travelers. One of them sitting there ,a 54 years old gentleman, had 140 Professional Degrees !!
A little guy on the other side,a traveler with one degree, asked this man “ Did you really know what you wanted to do with your life? If you did, then you wouldn’t have taken your life on zigzag ride of degrees which don’t have anything in common :P” . Rightly said isn’t it ? The reason I gave this example is , not everyone gets to know what they want to do with their life and there isn’t any particular age at which you get to know that. If that was the case, life would’ve been more simpler and easier. This man here still doesn’t feel complete after doing all that degrees.
Life has this weird style of inspiring you now and then with bizarre stuffs from time to time. One time you want to become a doctor, the other time an artist or may be a musician. It keeps changing every time you get inspired by something better. You feel your heart beats faster when you do a particular thing and then you land in a conclusion that, whatever made you feel good is the purpose of your life. Later you find something else even more awesome. There we go, back to square one.
Age 5- I paint well. I love colors. I want to be a painter.
Age 8 - I see airplanes for the first time. Now I wanna become a pilot.
Age 10- I watch some Hollywood movies. I want to be Spider-man. That ain’t possible .
昨晚我在看一个地方频道的电视辩论,话题是“有学位的人vs旅行者”。坐在那里的是一位54岁的绅士,他拥有140个专业学位!
另一边的一个小家伙,一个只有一个学位的旅行者,问这个人:“你真的知道你一生想做什么吗?如果你知道,那么你就不会在没有任何共同点的学位之字形上度过你的一生”。说得对,不是吗?我举这个例子的原因是,并不是每个人都知道他们想做什么,也没有任何特定的年龄让你知道这一点。如果是这样的话,生活会更简单、更容易。这个人在读了那么多学位后仍然觉得不完整。
生活总是用这种奇怪的方式时不时地用奇怪的东西来激励你。一次你想成为一名医生,另一次你想成为一名艺术家或音乐家。每当你从更好的事物中得到灵感时,它就会不断变化。当你做一件特定的事情时,你会感到心跳加速,然后得出结论,无论什么让你感觉良好,都是你生命的目的。后来你发现了一些更棒的东西。好了,回到原点。
5岁:我画画厉害。我喜欢颜色—我想成为一名画家。
8岁:我第一次看到飞机—我想成为一名飞行员。
10岁:我看好莱坞电影,我想成为蜘蛛侠。那是不可能的。
Age 14 - I realize it is difficult to become whatever I want to become. I decide to become a scientist because A.P.J. Abdul Kalam inspired me..
Age 16- I land in the biology group because I scored really well. The society wants me to become a doctor.
Age 18 - I realize my marks ain’t enough to become a doctor, so I choose the engineering field. Electrical Engineering.
Age 22- I realize core companies don’t happen come to the campus placements and so I land in an IT MNC. Now I’m a software Engineer.
Age 23- I realize I suck at programming, so I resign the job and opt for government exams.
Age 24- After some die hard attempts , I manage to clear one of the exams. I become a Bank officer.
Age 26- I feel like I want to do something better in life, serve the society somehow, so I prepare for UPSC. Now I wanna become an IAS officer.
Age 29- After two failed attempts ,I feel I’ve wasted my time following the herd of UPSC aspirants. I stop here and start thinking.
Age 30 - Aha ! I can do higher studies now. How about an MBA from a reputed university.
12岁:不!蝙蝠侠更有意义。我长大后要打击犯罪。
14岁:我意识到要成为我想成为的任何人都很困难。我决定成为一名科学家,因为A.P.J. Abdul Kalam激励了我。
16岁:我分到了生物组,因为我的成绩非常好。社会希望我成为一名医生。
18岁:我意识到我的成绩不足以成为一名医生,所以我选择了工程领域—电气工程。
22岁:我意识到核心公司不会来校园实习,所以我加入了一家IT跨国公司—现在我是一名软件工程师。
23岁:我意识到自己在编程方面很差劲,所以我辞去了这份工作,选择参加政府考试。
24岁:经过几次艰苦的尝试,我终于通过了考试—我成为了一名银行职员。
26岁:我觉得我想在生活中做些更好的事情,以某种方式为社会服务,所以我为联邦公务员委员会做准备。现在我想成为航空科学学院官员。
29岁:在两次失败的尝试之后,我觉得我在追随一群联邦公务员委员会方面的有志之士是在浪费时间。我停下来开始思考。
30岁:啊哈!我现在可以做更高的学习了。一所著名大学的MBA怎么样。
Age 33 - Placed in a reputed company which pays me 50 lakhs per annum. So life is settled isn’t it ? Actually No.
Age 35- I should get married now, its too late already.
Age 38- I have kids, my company is taking too much of my time, I hardly find time for family.
Age 42- Enough of this crap. I’ll do my own business. Startups are cool. After all , if Steve Jobs can do it, I can as well.
Age 44- Still finding it hard to bring up that startup. My family supports me.
Age 46- I succeed. I get a 3 round funding and I’m doing great. I’ve got people working for me now.
Age 50 - 4 years of successful business. Let me travel the world now. I feel alive now.
Age 55- My kids have grown up. Two years down the lane, they would be on their own.
Age 60- Siting under a tree. On a chair, with a cup of coffee, holding a newspaper in hand, seeing my grand-kids play in the garden, I start thinking “ What did i want to do in my life?”
“I’ve done everything I could do. I’m happy to look back . I can now rest in peace.”
Life is not about finding your purpose, it’s about enjoying this beautiful journey.
31岁:我获得了工商管理硕士学位。
33岁:就职于一家知名公司,每年付给我500万卢比。所以生活已经安定下来了,不是吗?实际上没有。
35岁:我现在应该结婚了,已经太晚了。
38岁:我有孩子,我的公司占用了我太多的时间,我几乎没有时间陪家人。
42岁:受够了这些废话。我会做我自己的事。初创公司很酷。毕竟,如果史蒂夫·乔布斯能做到,我也能做到。
44岁:仍然觉得很难培养出那家初创公司。我的家人支持我。
46岁:我成功了。我获得了3轮融资,我做得很好。现在有人在为我工作。
50-54岁:企业成功了。现在让我环游世界吧。我现在觉得自己还活着。
55岁:我的孩子已经长大了。两年后,他们将独立自主。
60岁:坐在树下。坐在椅子上,端着一杯咖啡,手里拿着一份报纸,看着我的孙子孙女们在花园里玩耍,我开始思考“我这辈子想做什么?”
“我已经做了我能做的一切。我很高兴回顾过去。我现在可以安息了。”
人生不是要找到目标,而是要享受这段美丽的旅程。