Last week, I promised my daughters that whatever they do in their working lives, nothing will ever be as bad as this. It was 10.45pm and they were sitting at the kitchen table surrounded by notes on exothermic reactions and quotes from Paradise Lost. When all this is over, I assured them, what comes next will seem a doddle. GCSEs, A-levels and finals are a hell that nothing in the office will ever match.
上週,我向我的女兒保證,無論她們將來從事什麼工作,都永遠不會像現在這般糟糕。當時是晚上10:45,她們坐在餐桌前,被有關放熱反應的筆記和出自《失樂園》(Paradise Lost)的引文所包圍。我向她們保證,這一切結束之後,以後遇到的事情都只是小菜一碟。工作中沒有什麼事情能與地獄般的普通中等教育證書考試(GCSEs)、A-level考試和期末考試匹敵。
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