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I'm leaving to become a teacher and I want you to join me
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After 31 years at the Financial Times, Lucy Kellaway is leaving to set up Now Teach
明年七月，Lucy将离开工作了31年的FT，与人合伙了一个团队叫Now Teach，改行去教书。
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相关词汇
jack in / chuck in v. 停止做某事
in cahoots with prep 共谋
in a befuddlement prep 迷惑
brow furrowed 皱着眉头
短语句子
With jobs, as with parties, it's best to leave when you still have a good time.
对待工作就像参加聚会一样，最好能在得意之时离开。
参考文本
A year from now, I will not be at my desks at the FT writing mocking columns about madness of coorporate life. I will be standing in front of a classroom of teenagers in an inner London school teaching them the basic rules of trigonometry.
There're various things about this change of career that are irregular. One is that I'm doing it rather late. I'll be 58 when I start. Another is that I'm making this annoucement rather early as I'm not actually off until July.
The reason I'm giving so much notice is that I want to persuade you to jack in whatever you're doing and come with me. Or rather I want to persuade you if you are A, of a certain age, B, doggedly determined, C, based in London, and D, fancy the idea of teaching math, science or languages, where the shortage of teachers is worst.
During the past few months, in cahoots with people who know what they're doing, I've been setting up an organization to encourage bankers, lawyers and accountants to spend the rest of their careers in the classroom. Our outfit is called NOW TEACH and aims to do a version of what Teach First has done so brilliantly - convincing the brightest graduates that teaching is a cool and noble thing , to do before trotting off to work for McKinsey/PwC/Goldman. Only the other way around.We want to convince people who have spent career in McKinsey or whatever that teaching is a cool and noble thing to do afterwards.
Not everyone thinks this is a great idea. When I told my fellow columnist Gideon Rachman about it, he looked me in a befuddlement. "Let me see if I understood," he said, brow furrowed, "you're leaving a job you're good at when you get money, praise, freedom, glamour and flexibility. You're swamping into something less well-paid, difficult, has no freedom, no glamour, is intensely stressful and you may be rubbish at it. Or I'm missing something." The answer of Gideon's is yes, you are. Nobody can go on doing the same thing forever. And most jobs, two decades is plenty. I've stuck at mine for 31 years because my job is the nicest in the world. But even so, it's been long enough. With jobs as with parties, it's best to leave when you still have a good time.
For me, that sort of starting over, learning something that is new and terrifyingly hard, is part of the point. So is the thought of being in a staffroom with colleagues of my children's age. But the biggest thing which readers may found it hard to swallow, given my entire careers has been based on ridiculing others, is that, for my next act I want to be useful. Yes, I know sticking pins in pompous chief executives is useful in a meta kind of way. But that's not that kind of useful I have in mind.
A few months ago, I wrote a column pointing out that there were hardly any 50-somethings lefting bank, cooperate law or most managerial jobs. Underneath, a prescient FT reader wrote "time for Teach Last". It is time. Schools need teachers. My generations had mostly payed off mogages, we have pensions kind of afford pay cart. We'll live until we're hundred. And we'll work until our seventies. If Leonard Cohen could do world tours until he was eighty I can surely find the energy needed to be in a classroom all day teaching kids my favorate subject.
Various people have protested that it won't work as my generation will be hopeless at controlling unruly teenagers. But I'm not dumping myself and fellow Now Teach recruits in schools unsupported. We're in partnership with Ark, the educational charity which knows how to train teachers. I've sat in on some of sessions and I've learned how to stand, what to do with my voice to make kids behave. I've practiced in front of the mirror. I almost managed to scare myself.
For now, I'm banning all FT readers from emailing me to say goodbye as I'm not off yet. I'm staying until the summer and even then will not be making a clear break. I'll go on writing for the FT whenever I have a spare minute from all that trigonometry. Instead, I want only to hear from people who have a view on NOW TEACH. Better still, I want to hear from anyone who have already chuck in the cooperate life and come with me.
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