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5. Get past your fears.
The reason I took a corporate job was to get good healthcare. And the reason I stayed at that job, when my head was spinning around like the chick in the Exorcist, was cheap healthcare. Now our family is back to paying a ridiculous premium which covers nothing—and I will write about that at some point, how healthcare in the country has now dominated people’s career track, because it is virtually impossible to be creative and have good healthcare. Anyhow, for me, the big nut to get around—the fear that was holding me back—was healthcare. And although we are paying an arm and a leg right now, I know that, on some level, it will actually cost us less, because I am not getting sick as often as I was. Moreover, writing assignments have come out of the blue to cover some of the cost that I knew that we’d absorb. In short, it’s not as bad as I thought. The lesson? Don’t let your fears keep you suck in a toxic job.
克服你的恐懼感
我選擇在公司工作的原因就是可以得到良好的醫療服務。而我之前那份每天頭昏目眩的的如同《驅魔人》中小雞一樣的工作，得到的卻是一份很低廉的醫療服務。現在，我們的家庭回歸到支付一份荒謬的空頭支票般的保險，下面我會從某些方面講述國家的醫療制度如何控制你職業生涯的發展，因為想要它變得富有創造性，并且提供良好的醫療服務幾乎是不可能的。
無論如何，有關醫療保健的傳言在不停的傳播 — 恐懼感讓我猶豫不決。盡管我們要讓自己立刻投入一半的精力到工作中去，但是我知道，從某種程度上來說，它讓我們付出的實際代價會越來越少，因為我不會和以前一樣經常生病。除此之外，保險賬單還可以出乎意料的涵蓋一些之前我知道需要我們自己吸收的費用。總之，它沒有我想的那么糟糕。那這個教訓是什么呢？不要讓你的恐懼感讓你卷入對身體有害的工作。
6. Make up some rules.
Even if you aren’t recovering from a major health condition or mood disorder, coming up with some personal rules to live by will keep you balanced and whole, and possibly even sane and happy, because it says that you control the work situation, instead of it controlling you.
構建一些準則
即使你不是剛從某個較差的身體狀況或者情緒障礙中康復，想出一些個人準則去遵循將會讓你的生活保持平衡與完整，甚至變得明智而幸福。因為，生活準則會讓你去掌控工作，而不是讓工作來掌控你。
My two rules were these: I was not willing to pull all-nighters (I made a stink about needing at least seven hours of sleep), and that I would not work over 80 hours a week. When I saw that the majority of my co-workers did pull all-nighters and worked over 80 hours many weeks, I knew it was time to pull the plug. Make a list of conditions you are willing to put up with, and also a list of deal-breakers, so that you work this job according to your rules instead of theirs.
我有兩個準則：不會通宵工作（每天至少保證7小時睡眠），一周工作時間不會超過80小時。當我看到大部分同事通宵達旦的工作，并且數周工作時間超過80小時的時候，我知道是時候辭職離開了。把你可以忍受與無法忍受的條件做一個列表，讓你根據自己的，而不是公司的原則來工作。
7. Go with your gut.
I don’t know about you, but my gut is more rowdy and opinionated with each passing birthday. It’s full of judgments and preferences, and when I don’t follow them, there is outrage and turmoil. So I’m trying to do a better job of going with my gut the first time round, like when it says, “I don’t see you happy in this job.” Or the second time, “I still don’t see you happy in this job.” And definitely by the third, “Are you moron? Leave!”
緊隨內心想法
我不知道你怎樣，但是我的內心會隨著年齡的增長而逐漸復雜和富有建議性。它充滿了判斷和偏好。當我不緊隨它的時候，它就會變得憤怒和不安。所以，當它第一次在對我說，“我沒有看到你工作的時候很開心”的時候， 我緊隨內心的想法嘗試換一份更好的工作。否則，它會第二次對我說，“我還是沒有看到你這份工作做得很開心。”甚至第三次的時候，它會對我說，“你是白癡么？快點離開！
