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The best on the job training I ever got in my life came from a very special woman:
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my mum. It happened when I was in my early twenties. I had just recently graduated
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at home,I had to take a job as a busboy(勤杂工)inalocalrestaurant. I was sad and
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depressed to find myself working there.
God works in mysterious ways, though,because that restaurant was the same one
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that my mum had recently started working at after years of staying at home. The first
timeI saw her come in the kitchen it was like an extra light had been turned on. Her
·━Old Americans are separating into two classes. Retirement (退休)canbe eithermile was returned by every one of the cooks and her gentle laughter and sweet good
heaven or hell. "I do believe on the whole the retirees (退休者)oftomorrow will be humor made the shift(轮班)gobyquickly.Her concern for her fellow workers made
wealthier and healthier than the same group of 30 years ago,"says Robert Friedland,them open up their hearts to her. She did her physical work well and did her spiritual
director of the National Academy on Ageing, "But that's only part of the picture," work even better.
There is also a large group whose household income hasn't been growing very much.
It was both strange and delightful to see my mum in this new and wonderful way.
For them the future is unhappy. I and most of the other workers at that restaurant were just to make a living but my
"Nature is not always kind," says Dr Robert Butler,an expert in medical care of old peo-mum was actually living. Her job and her joy had become one. She cooked love both on
ple,who was founding director of the National Institute on Ageing, The relationship between so-the stove(炉子)andin the hearts of all those around her.
cial-economic position and life expectancy(