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Do you view work as a burden or an opportunity? Are you the kind of person who looks forways to save your energy or the kind that finds spending your energy satisfying? Why do people like to complain about work? Find the answers in the following essay.
你将工作视为负担还是机会？你是那种想尽办法保存精力的人还是发觉消耗精力令人满足的人？人们为什么喜欢抱怨工作？在下文中寻找答案吧。
Why People Work
人为什么工作
Leonard R. Sayles
伦纳德·R·塞尔斯
Jobs and work do much more than most of us realize to provide happiness and contentment. We're all used to thinking that work provides the material things of life 一 the goods and services that make possible our modem civilization. But we are much less conscious of the extent to which work provides the more intangible, but more crucial, psychological well-being that can make the difference between a full and an empty life.
职业和工作在使人得到幸福与满足方面所起的作用比我们大多数人意识到的要多得多。 我们都习惯于认为工作为人生提供物质的东西——提供使我们的现代文明成为可能的商品和服务。但是我们对工作在促进精神生活方面所起的作用，则知之甚少。这方面的作用难以捉摸，却更加至关重要,它是人生过得充实还是空虚的决定性因素。
Historically, work has been associated with slavery and sin and punishment. And in our own day we are used to hearing the traditional complaints:"I can't wait for my vacation，'"I wish I could stay home today,""My boss treats me poorly,""I，ve got too much work to do and notenough time to do it." Against this background, it may well come as a surprise to learn that not only psychologists but other behavioral scientists have come to accept the positive contribution of work to the individual's happiness and sense of personal achievement. Work is more than a necessity for most human beings; it is the focus of their lives, the source of their identity and creativity.
在历史上，工作一直与奴役、罪恶和惩罚联系在一起。现今我们还常常听到那些老一套的怨言：“我巴不得早点放假”，“今天我要是呆在家里该多好”，“我的老板待我不好”，“我的事情多得来不及做”等等。在这种情况下，当你得悉心理学家们以及其他的行为科学家们都认为，工作对个人幸福和个人成就起着积极作用时，你很可能会感到惊奇。对大多数人来说，工作不仅仅是一种必需，它还是人们生活的焦点，是他们的个性和创造性的源泉。
