今日问答：

我记得你说过，我们不要再把精力花在准备放弃的事物中，而是应该投入到想做的事物中。但是，我是应该为了保险起见，一边继续做我不想做的事情，一边追求我的新事业，还是应该完全转变呢？

Today' Topic：

I remember you said to stop focusing on what you're giving up and focus on what you want to do. But should I continue what I don’t want to do in the future and pursue my new career on the side to be safe, or just switch 100%?

职商专家回答：

Zhishang Career Expert Answer：

这真的取决于你的个人状况。如果你的年纪稍大，接近三十岁或三十多岁，你可能需要支撑一个家庭、偿还房贷或车贷、或是有其它比较大的经济上的责任。如果情况是这样，要做出一个很大的职业转变，去追求不同的职业或行业是比较难的。这可能会突然大幅度降低你的收入，因为你不太可能得到(和你已经从事一段时间的工作)相同水平的薪资。

It really depends on your personal situation.  If you’re older, say in your late 20s or 30s, you may have a family to support, monthly house or car payments to make, or other big financial responsibilities.  In this case, it’s harder to make a big career change to a different job function or industry that may suddenly and significantly reduce your income.  It’s not likely that you’ll still be paid at the same level as what you’ve been doing for a while.

做出事业改变的时候，在很大程度上你是重头开始，所以你需要再次从较低的职位做起。通常，你是用短期的薪资减少，来交换追求你更有动力去做，并且认为能做得更好的事情的更大上升空间。随着时间的发展，你得到的会比失去的多。但是，有时候，你在经济上无法承受做出如此大的改变。那你就需要循序渐进地来追求事业转变。就算你知道未来自己并不想从事这份职业，你还是要在当前的处境下继续呆上一段时间。

When making a career change, you’re starting over to large degree and need to begin at a lower level again.  Often, you’re trading off a short-term cut in salary for the bigger upside potential of pursuing something you’re more motivated to do and think you can do better.  Over time, you’ll more than recover that amount.  But sometimes, financially, you just can’t afford to make such a big move.  You have to take a more gradual approach to pursue your career change and continue in your current situation for a while, even though you know you don’t want to do in the future.

但是，如果你没有很大的经济责任，我会鼓励你完全投入到追求你想要的东西中。举个例子，在我二十五六岁的时候，我做出了一个巨大的事业改变。在我人生的那个阶段，我没有妻子、房贷，也不用担心钱的问题。我很幸运，在这种情况下，我可以直接放弃我正在做的事情，全力投入我想追求的事业。

However, if you don’t have major financial responsibilities, then I encourage you to fully commit to pursuing what you want.  For instance, I made a huge career change when I was in my mid-20s.  At that stage of my life, I didn’t have a wife, house payments, or big money concerns.  I was fortunate to be in a situation where I could just quit what I was doing and put all my effort into what I wanted to pursue instead.  

总而言之，你需要评估自己当前的处境，以及事物的优先级。但是，如果你负担得起，我会说，去做吧！我当时是这样考虑自己的处境的：我花在我不想做的事情上的每一分钟，都意味着我在做我认为会更加享受，同时会取得更大成功的事情上少了一分钟。

Overall, you need to assess your own situation and priorities.  But if you can afford to do it, then I say go for it!  The way I thought about my situation was, every minute that I’m doing the thing I don’t want to be doing is one minute less that I’m not doing the thing I believe I’ll enjoy more and be more successful at!