六级写作范文：职业的回报.docx

六级写作范文：职业的回报不同的职业有不同的回报。再者，回报也分多种，有金钱，有公众的赞誉，也有自我价值的实现The Rewards of the ProfessionsThe probability that any person should ever be qualified for the employment to which he iseducated, is very different in different occupations. In the greater part of mechanic trades,success is almost certain; but very uncertain in the liberal professions. Put your son apprentice toa shoemaker, there is little doubt of his learning to make a pair of shoes, but send him to studythe law, it is at least twenty to one if ever he makes such a proficiency as it will enable him to liveby the business. In a perfectly fair lottery, those who draw the prizes ought to gain all that is lostby those who draw the blanks. In a profession where twenty fail for one that succeeds, that oneought to gain all that should have been gained by the unsuccessful nineteen ones. The counselorat law, who, perhaps, at near forty years of age, begins to make something by his profession,ought to receive the retribution, not only of his own so tedious and expensive education, but ofthat of more than ten others who are never likely to make anything by it. How extravagant thefees of counselors at law may sometimes appear, their real retribution is never equal to this.Those professions keep their level, however, with other occupations, and notwithstandingthese discouragements, all the most generous and liberal spirits are eager to crowd into them.Two different causes contribute to recommend them. First, the desire of the reputation whichattends upon superior excellence in any of them; and, secondly, the natural confidence whichevery man has, more or less, not only in his own abilities, but in his own good fortune.To excel in any profession, in which but few arrive at mediocrity, is the most decisive mark ofwhat is called genius or superior talents. The public admiration which attends upon suchdistinguished abilities，makes always a part of their reward；a greater or smaller in proportion asit is higher or lower in degree