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Have you ever thought about volunteer work?
你想过参加一些志愿工作吗？
Many people around the world choose to take time away from their jobs to do volunteer work.
世界上很多人选择从工作中移出时间来参加志愿活动。
Read this leaflet on volunteer work and why it might be a good choice for you in the future.
读读这则关于志愿工作传单，为什么说参加志愿工作对你的未来是一个很好的选择。
Have you ever thought about volunteer work?
你想过参加一些志愿工作吗？
Have you ever participated in some?
你参加过一些（志愿工作）吗？
Why would you want to devote your precious time to a job that does not pay you anything?
为什么会把你的宝贵时间投入到一个毫无回报的工作呢？
Perhaps to say that 'volunteer work does not pay' is not completely true.
仅仅说“志愿工作毫无回报”是不完全正确的。
Although it does not compensate financially, volunteer work is actually a two-way street.
尽管得不到经济上的补偿，但是志愿工作实际上是互惠的。
Volunteer work should always benefit people who need help,
志愿工作应让那些需要帮助的人从中获益，
but others often forget how much it benefits the volunteers themselves.
但是其他人通常忘了志愿者自己从中获益多少。
By volunteering, you have the opportunity to develop skills and gain experience that may be useful later in a paying job.
通过志愿工作，你可以得到发展技能，增加经验的机会，会对以后的有偿工作有所帮助。
It also helps you test and develop your own personality,
它也帮助你检测并发展了自己的人格，
because you are doing the work out of passion and desire rather than simply to get material rewards.
因为你是出于热情和愿望来做这份工作，而不是仅仅为了得到物质回报。
Through this kind of work, you are telling yourself that you are not only interested in your own future,
通过这种工作，你是在告诉自己，你不仅对自己的未来感兴趣，
but also in the world as a whole.
而且对整个世界充满热情。
Volunteer work gives you confidence and a sense of self.
志愿工作给了你自信和自我的感觉。
You can see how you do and feel in certain risk-free situations,
你看到了自己是怎样做的，在一个没有任何危险的状态下感受自己，
and thus better figure out the kind of things or jobs that really interest you.
从而更好的体会出什么样的事物或工作是你确实所感兴趣的。
And of course, there is always the opportunity to make new friends with people of all ages and backgrounds.
毫无疑问，会有很多机会可以结交不同年龄不同背景的新朋友。
Perhaps it is more appropriate to say that 'volunteer work is a school'.
或许更适合说“志愿工作是一所学校”
You pay for a time to learn.
你花了时间学习，
Volunteer work is also a memory-you will only realize its true value later in life,
志愿工作也是一段回忆-你会在之后意识到它真正的价值，
when you look back with feelings of internal joy and satisfaction.
直到有一天你带着内心的喜悦和满足感回想起这段经历的时候。
