你在多大的年紀就知道你想做什么（一）
At what age did you know what you wanted to do with your life?
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網友：當我9歲或10歲左右，四年級時，我的父母開始給我騎士套裝作為圣誕節和生日禮物。（我父親小時候就制造過收音機，在二戰中擔任過通信官員。）在接下來的幾年里，我制造了短波收音機、立體聲設備、對講機、 民用波段電臺收音機和測試設備......
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At what age did you know what you wanted to do with your life?
你在多大的年紀就知道你想做什么？
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When I was around 9 or 10 and in fourth grade, my parents started giving me Knight Kits as Christmas and birthday presents. (My dad had built radios as a kid and had been a communications officer in WW2.) Over the next several years I built short wave radios, stereo equipment, intercoms, CB radios and test equipment — everything but the portable CB radios still used vacuum tubes.
About the time I started junior high, I got hold of a working pinball machine that had been confiscated in a gambling raid. Rather than just endlessly playing it like any normal kid, I dismantled it for its parts. I was fascinated by the relays and other electromechanical components.
I built what I called a digital computer using the parts from the pinball machine parts, but it was actually just a glorified electromechanical calculator that could add, subtract, and multiply — it wasn’t really programmable. But still a decent science fair project for a 13-year-old student in 1960. I can’t remember if I won, but I did get some sort of Westinghouse Science award.
當我9歲或10歲左右，四年級時，我的父母開始給我騎士套裝作為圣誕節和生日禮物。（我父親小時候就制造過收音機，在二戰中擔任過通信官員。）在接下來的幾年里，我制造了短波收音機、立體聲設備、對講機、 民用波段電臺收音機和測試設備——除了便攜式民用波段電臺收音機外，其他所有設備都使用真空管。
大約在我上初中的時候，我找到了一臺正在工作的彈球機，它在一次賭博襲擊中被沒收了。我不再像普通孩子一樣沒完沒了地玩它，而是把它拆了下來。我被繼電器和其他機電元件迷住了。
我用彈球機的零件制造了一臺我稱之為數字計算機的計算機，但它實際上只是一臺美化了的機電計算器，可以進行加法、減法和乘法運算——它不是真正可編程的。但在1960年，對于一個13歲的學生來說，這仍然是一個像樣的科學博覽會項目。我不記得我是否贏了，但我確實獲得了某種西屋科學天才獎。
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I became friends with the manager of our local Bell telephone office. It was a crossbar office, but there were still several smaller towns around us that were converting from older step-by-step systems. When that happened, they would literally destroy the old equipment with axes so competitors could not salvage it.
This manager knew about my interest in relays, and would let me know when an office was being converted, so I could have first dibs on any equipment before it was destroyed. I got dozens and dozens of working telephone relays this way to use in various projects. This ignited my love affair with all things to do with telephones.
When I was a sophomore in high school, I was sexted to compete in a multi-state science fair in a neighboring state. A nearby university (Iowa State, where I would later get my BSEE at) flew me and other participants to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign where the fair was to take place in one of their private planes.
While on campus, I wandered into the campus bookstore and browsed the EE section. There I found a book called The Design of Switching Circuits, written by members of the technical staff at Bell Labs in 1951, which was all about relay switching circuits and Boolean algebra. I stayed up most of the night and drew up all of the Boolean equations for my project. The next day, I wrote them out during an oral presentation to the judges.
所以大概是在這一點上，我知道我想把設計和建造這樣的東西作為一種職業。
我和當地貝爾電話局的經理成了朋友。這是一個交叉的辦公室，但我們周圍還有幾個較小的城鎮正在從舊的分步系統改造。當這種情況發生時，他們真的會用斧頭摧毀舊設備，這樣競爭對手就無法搶救了。
這位經理知道我對繼電器很感興趣，并會在辦公室改建時告訴我，這樣我就能在任何設備被摧毀前搶先使用。我用這種方式得到了幾十個工作電話繼電器，可以在各種項目中使用。這點燃了我對所有與電話有關的事情的熱愛。
當我上高中二年級時，我被選中參加鄰近州的一個多州科學博覽會。附近的一所大學（愛荷華州立大學，我后來在那里獲得學士學位）將我和其他參與者空運到伊利諾伊大學香檳分校（university of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign），展會將在那里的一架私人飛機上舉行。
在校園里，我走進校園書店，瀏覽了電子工程師部分的書籍。在那里，我找到了一本書，名叫《開關電路的設計》，這本書是貝爾實驗室的技術人員于1951年寫的，內容都是關于繼電器開關電路和布爾代數的。我熬夜了大半個晚上，為我的項目起草了所有的布爾方程。第二天，我在給評委的口頭陳述中把它們寫了出來。
After graduation, I went to work at my dream job, at an R&D lab which was part of GTE (General Telephone and Electronics) designing digital logic for one of the first electronic telephone switches sold to the independent (non-Bell) telephone industry. I got the first four of my 28 patents on that project.
As I was working on that project, I realized that a lot of my hard-wired logic could be done with computers in the future (I was assuming a minicomputer like the PDP-8, since this was just before the first microprocessor, Intel 4004 was invented), so I went back and got an MS in Computer Science while working there.
Since then, I have had a successfully career sometimes designing hardware, sometimes software, or both like I am currently doing. I’m still working full-time at the age of 74 with no plans to retire.
所以我的專業是電氣工程，這幾乎是理所當然的。愛荷華州立大學離這里很近（40英里遠），有一個優秀的電子工程系。我最感興趣的是數字邏輯設計，因為我過去參與過電話交換邏輯。
畢業后，我得到了理想的工作，在一個研發實驗室工作，該實驗室是GTE（通用電話和電子）的一部分，為出售給獨立（非貝爾）電話行業的第一個電子電話交換機之一設計數字邏輯。我獲得了該項目28項專利中的前四項。
在我從事這個項目的時候，我意識到我的很多硬接線邏輯將來都可以用計算機來完成（我假設是像PDP-8這樣的小型計算機，因為這是在第一臺微處理器Intel 4004發明之前），所以我回去工作時獲得了計算機科學碩士學位。
從那以后，我有了一個成功的事業，有時設計硬件，有時設計軟件，或兩者兼而有之，就像我現在做的一樣。我74歲時仍在全職工作，沒有退休計劃。
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I’ve been thinking about this from the first day my people started advising me about my life and future. When I thought people were asking me what to become, they wanted to know where I will study, how much marks I wanted to get, how much I wanted to earn and own. Nothing else.
I followed the herd unintentionally. I scored average marks in 10th board exams. I took computer science because I was not good at drawing which the biology stream required, also I didn’t want to ba an accountant for no reason. Hence commerce stream also was rejected.
I sucked big time in computer science. I didn’t like programming at all. I struggled a lot with other subjects too. Hence with almost same average score in 12th board exams, I opted for Electronics to get away from Computer Science.
Somebody said I would be qualified to both join core industry and IT industry with a degree in Electronics.
I wasn’t interested in studying the core electronics subjects at all. I tried and motivated myself in different ways. I couldn’t help. Also I was in a one-sided love with a very beautiful girl. For a long time during my college days. That is how I wasted my college days.
從第一天起，我就開始給我的生活和未來出謀獻策，我就一直在思考這個問題。當我想到人們問我要成為什么樣的人時，他們卻想知道我將在哪里學習，我想考多少分，我想掙多少錢，擁有多少財產，其余什么問題都沒有。
我非故意狀態下隨大流。我在第十年級的大學入學考試上取得了平均分。我選擇了計算機科學，因為我不擅長繪制生物學所需的圖形，而且我也不想無緣無故地成為一名會計。因此，商業專業也被拒絕。
我在計算機科學方面學得很好。我一點都不喜歡編程。我在其他科目上也有很多困難。因此，在第十二屆委員會考試中，我的平均成績幾乎相同，我選擇了電子學來擺脫計算機科學。
有人說我有資格加入核心產業和IT產業，并獲得電子學位。
我對學習電子學的核心課程一點也不感興趣。我以不同的方式嘗試和激勵自己，但就是沒辦法。我還和一個非常漂亮的女孩一見鐘情。在我上大學的時候有很長一段時間，我就是這樣浪費我的大學時光的。
I’ve no idea what to do with my life. I google a lot, I read a lot for inspiration, all great stories of successful people, motivational movies, Apps, what not, for the magical spark to strike me like in movies
I even tried travelling to few places within my budget constraints.
My mom expects me to join a well-known firm so that she can proudly say that her son works in a reputed firm.
All my relatives expect me to get married, have kids, and of course attend all their functions and events without fail. 100% attendance is mandatory there.
I just learnt that the more I wait for something to guide me magically to let me know what I wanted to do with my life, the more stagnant I become.
I’m just following a simple thing - try all the things I want to do. Every day.
I’m an introvert. Hence apart from my friends at school, college, neighborhood and office, I really didn’t make friends. Now I attend meetups, random events via meetup.com. Not that I did great but I tried.
I wanted to have a pet dog. I got a puppy. But I couldn’t continue having it for more than a week. I gave it to my friend.
沒有猜測。畢業后我加入了一家不太知名的軟件公司。是的，作為一名程序員。已經超過3.5年了。
我不知道我的生活該怎么辦。我在谷歌上搜索了很多，我讀了很多關于靈感的書，所有關于成功人士的偉大故事，勵志電影，應用程序，等等，希冀就像電影里那樣，神奇的火花擊中我。
我甚至嘗試在預算有限的情況下去幾個地方旅游。
我媽媽希望我加入一家知名公司，這樣她就可以自豪地說，她的兒子在一家知名公司工作。
我所有的親戚都希望我結婚生子，當然也一定會參加他們所有的活動。那是必須百分之百的出席。
我剛剛了解到，我越是等待有什么東西神奇地引導我，讓我知道我想做什么，我的生活就越停滯不前。
我只是在做一件簡單的事情——嘗試我想做的所有事情—每一天都如此。
我是個內向的人。因此，除了我在學校、大學、社區和辦公室的朋友外，我真的沒有交朋友?，F在我參加聚會和隨機活動。不是說我做得很好，而是我努力了。
我想要一只寵物狗。我有一只小狗。但我堅持不了一個星期以上。我把它給了我的朋友。
I tried exercising and gym work-outs. Now it has become my habit.
I tried to talk to few people at Quora.
I tried to learn new things technically. I was a PHP developer. Learnt few front end frxworks, Python, github, MEAN stack.
I try to write at least one answer a week on Quora. That’s a big achievement for me.
These are the things that I did. There’re few million things like this I want to do in my life.
I feel life is all about trying different things and feeling good about it.
我試著把畫畫作為業余愛好?，F在我能畫的東西很少了，就是這樣。
我試著鍛煉和健身?，F在這已經成為我的習慣。
我試著和Quora上的幾個人交談。
我試著從技術上學習新東西。我是一名 個人網頁開發人員。學習了一些前端框架，爬蟲，社交編程及代碼托管網站，最終棧。
我試著每周至少在Quora上寫一個答案。這對我來說是一個巨大的成就。
這些就是我做的事情。我一生中想做的事情很少。
我覺得生活就是嘗試不同的事情，并且感覺良好。
I am a late bloomer. I finally realized what I want to do at the age of 73.
Until then, I felt life was not worth living. I was, in effect, just waiting to die. I had no ambition to do anything, few interests and few reasons to live.
Then I met somebody on Quora who saw potential in me and she has been my mentor ever since.
Now, I have written a book in the past 7 months and published it on Amazon last week. I am thrilled. Now, I shall go on to write another three books so my life finally has purpose and meaning.
我是個晚熟的人。73歲的時候，我終于意識到我想做什么。
在那之前，我覺得生命不值得活下去。實際上，我只是在等死。我沒有什么抱負，沒有啥興趣，沒有什么活下去的理由。
然后我在Quora上遇到了一個人，她看到了我的潛力，從那以后她就一直是我的導師。
現在，我在過去的7個月里寫了一本書，并于上周在亞馬遜上出版了它。我很激動?，F在，我將繼續寫另外三本書，這樣我的生活終于有了目標和意義。
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A Soldier.
According to my mother, I’ve wanted to be a soldier since I was six. That sounds about right. I’ve had my influences throughout my life. My family has a long (ish) history of military service. Both great grandfathers served in World War II. On my moms side, my great-granfather left Germany before the war, and enlisted in the US Navy. On my dads side, I’m told he was a British paratrooper, but I’m not sure. My grandfathers both served in Vietnam, one was a Scout Dog Handler, fighting the VC in South Vietnam. He was drafted. The other was a mechanic on F-4 Phantom fighters in the Air Force, also based in South Vietnam. He enlisted.
My dad never served, he never wanted to. He instead went to college. He was always against me joining the military, he instead wants me to go to college (Well Dad, sorry to disappoint).
So from age six on, I knew I wanted to be a soldier, but only recently decided what exactly I wanted to do
My plan is currently working. I’m doing four years of JROTC (three to go), and I take the ASVAB this year. Hopefully I’ll score high enough to qualify for 19K
Cheers!
士兵。
據我母親說，我從六歲起就想當兵。聽起來不錯。我一生都受此影響。我的家族有很長的服兵役歷史。兩位曾祖父都曾在二戰中服役。在我母親親戚那邊，我的曾祖父在戰前離開了德國，加入了美國海軍。在我父親親戚那邊，我聽說他是一名英國傘兵，但我不確定。我的祖父都在越南服役，其中一位是偵察犬管理員，在南越與越共作戰。他被征召入伍。另一位是同樣駐扎在南越的空軍F-4幻影戰斗機的機修工—他應征入伍。
我爸爸從來沒有服過兵役，他從來沒有想過。相反，他上了大學。他一直反對我參軍，他希望我上大學（嗯，爸爸，抱歉讓你失望了）。
所以從六歲開始，我就知道我想成為一名士兵，但直到最近才決定我到底想做什么。
我的計劃目前正在實施中。我正在參與四年的國家少年后備役軍官訓練營（還剩三年），今年我參加職業傾向綜合測驗，希望我能拿到足夠高的分數來參加19K。
I don't think anyone ever really knows what they want from their life.
We - humans are constantly running after things, running after ambitions, running after dreams, running after money and so much more.
The list never ends. I want this now, when I get it I will want something else then.
And maybe that's the most important thing because that spontaneity to achieve different wantings keeps us going towards betterment.
But while running after these things we often forget why we wanted them in the first place - because we think that it will make us happy. we just want to happy and all the things we do are methods or ways to be happy.
I am nineteen for now and what I want from life is to be happy.
But now I just want to be happy. Have a home of myself, a job as a lecturer in a good college, teach my students best, have a pet cat and my own garden. This is what I want from life, for now.
Maybe my desire will again change. Who knows.
我認為沒有人真正知道他們想要從生活中得到什么。
我們人類一直在追逐事物，追逐野心，追逐夢想，追逐金錢等等。
這個名單永遠不會結束。我現在想要這個，當我得到它的時候，我會想要別的東西。
也許這是最重要的，因為實現不同愿望的自發性讓我們不斷進步。
但在追求這些東西的時候，我們往往忘記了為什么我們首先想要它們——因為我們認為這會讓我們快樂。我們只想快樂，我們只是想要快樂，我們所做的一切都是為了快樂。
我現在十九歲了，我想從生活中獲得快樂。
但現在我只想快樂。有一個自己的家，在一所好的大學里做講師，最好是教學生，有一只寵物貓和自己的花園。這就是我現在想要的生活。
也許我的愿望會再次改變。誰知道呢。
Last night I was watching a TV debate in a local channel where the topic was People with Degrees vs Travelers. One of them sitting there ,a 54 years old gentleman, had 140 Professional Degrees !!
A little guy on the other side,a traveler with one degree, asked this man “ Did you really know what you wanted to do with your life? If you did, then you wouldn’t have taken your life on zigzag ride of degrees which don’t have anything in common :P” . Rightly said isn’t it ? The reason I gave this example is , not everyone gets to know what they want to do with their life and there isn’t any particular age at which you get to know that. If that was the case, life would’ve been more simpler and easier. This man here still doesn’t feel complete after doing all that degrees.
Life has this weird style of inspiring you now and then with bizarre stuffs from time to time. One time you want to become a doctor, the other time an artist or may be a musician. It keeps changing every time you get inspired by something better. You feel your heart beats faster when you do a particular thing and then you land in a conclusion that, whatever made you feel good is the purpose of your life. Later you find something else even more awesome. There we go, back to square one.
Age 5- I paint well. I love colors. I want to be a painter.
Age 8 - I see airplanes for the first time. Now I wanna become a pilot.
Age 10- I watch some Hollywood movies. I want to be Spider-man. That ain’t possible .
昨晚我在看一個地方頻道的電視辯論，話題是“有學位的人vs旅行者”。坐在那里的是一位54歲的紳士，他擁有140個專業學位!
另一邊的一個小家伙，一個只有一個學位的旅行者，問這個人：“你真的知道你一生想做什么嗎？如果你知道，那么你就不會在沒有任何共同點的學位之字形上度過你的一生”。說得對，不是嗎？我舉這個例子的原因是，并不是每個人都知道他們想做什么，也沒有任何特定的年齡讓你知道這一點。如果是這樣的話，生活會更簡單、更容易。這個人在讀了那么多學位后仍然覺得不完整。
生活總是用這種奇怪的方式時不時地用奇怪的東西來激勵你。一次你想成為一名醫生，另一次你想成為一名藝術家或音樂家。每當你從更好的事物中得到靈感時，它就會不斷變化。當你做一件特定的事情時，你會感到心跳加速，然后得出結論，無論什么讓你感覺良好，都是你生命的目的。后來你發現了一些更棒的東西。好了，回到原點。
5歲：我畫畫厲害。我喜歡顏色—我想成為一名畫家。
8歲：我第一次看到飛機—我想成為一名飛行員。
10歲：我看好萊塢電影，我想成為蜘蛛俠。那是不可能的。
Age 14 - I realize it is difficult to become whatever I want to become. I decide to become a scientist because A.P.J. Abdul Kalam inspired me..
Age 16- I land in the biology group because I scored really well. The society wants me to become a doctor.
Age 18 - I realize my marks ain’t enough to become a doctor, so I choose the engineering field. Electrical Engineering.
Age 22- I realize core companies don’t happen come to the campus placements and so I land in an IT MNC. Now I’m a software Engineer.
Age 23- I realize I suck at programming, so I resign the job and opt for government exams.
Age 24- After some die hard attempts , I manage to clear one of the exams. I become a Bank officer.
Age 26- I feel like I want to do something better in life, serve the society somehow, so I prepare for UPSC. Now I wanna become an IAS officer.
Age 29- After two failed attempts ,I feel I’ve wasted my time following the herd of UPSC aspirants. I stop here and start thinking.
Age 30 - Aha ! I can do higher studies now. How about an MBA from a reputed university.
12歲：不！蝙蝠俠更有意義。我長大后要打擊犯罪。
14歲：我意識到要成為我想成為的任何人都很困難。我決定成為一名科學家，因為A.P.J. Abdul Kalam激勵了我。
16歲：我分到了生物組，因為我的成績非常好。社會希望我成為一名醫生。
18歲：我意識到我的成績不足以成為一名醫生，所以我選擇了工程領域—電氣工程。
22歲：我意識到核心公司不會來校園實習，所以我加入了一家IT跨國公司—現在我是一名軟件工程師。
23歲：我意識到自己在編程方面很差勁，所以我辭去了這份工作，選擇參加政府考試。
24歲：經過幾次艱苦的嘗試，我終于通過了考試—我成為了一名銀行職員。
26歲：我覺得我想在生活中做些更好的事情，以某種方式為社會服務，所以我為聯邦公務員委員會做準備?，F在我想成為航空科學學院官員。
29歲：在兩次失敗的嘗試之后，我覺得我在追隨一群聯邦公務員委員會方面的有志之士是在浪費時間。我停下來開始思考。
30歲：啊哈！我現在可以做更高的學習了。一所著名大學的MBA怎么樣。
Age 33 - Placed in a reputed company which pays me 50 lakhs per annum. So life is settled isn’t it ? Actually No.
Age 35- I should get married now, its too late already.
Age 38- I have kids, my company is taking too much of my time, I hardly find time for family.
Age 42- Enough of this crap. I’ll do my own business. Startups are cool. After all , if Steve Jobs can do it, I can as well.
Age 44- Still finding it hard to bring up that startup. My family supports me.
Age 46- I succeed. I get a 3 round funding and I’m doing great. I’ve got people working for me now.
Age 50 - 4 years of successful business. Let me travel the world now. I feel alive now.
Age 55- My kids have grown up. Two years down the lane, they would be on their own.
Age 60- Siting under a tree. On a chair, with a cup of coffee, holding a newspaper in hand, seeing my grand-kids play in the garden, I start thinking “ What did i want to do in my life?”
“I’ve done everything I could do. I’m happy to look back . I can now rest in peace.”
Life is not about finding your purpose, it’s about enjoying this beautiful journey.
31歲：我獲得了工商管理碩士學位。
33歲：就職于一家知名公司，每年付給我500萬盧比。所以生活已經安定下來了，不是嗎？實際上沒有。
35歲：我現在應該結婚了，已經太晚了。
38歲：我有孩子，我的公司占用了我太多的時間，我幾乎沒有時間陪家人。
42歲：受夠了這些廢話。我會做我自己的事。初創公司很酷。畢竟，如果史蒂夫·喬布斯能做到，我也能做到。
44歲：仍然覺得很難培養出那家初創公司。我的家人支持我。
46歲：我成功了。我獲得了3輪融資，我做得很好?，F在有人在為我工作。
50-54歲：企業成功了?，F在讓我環游世界吧。我現在覺得自己還活著。
55歲：我的孩子已經長大了。兩年后，他們將獨立自主。
60歲：坐在樹下。坐在椅子上，端著一杯咖啡，手里拿著一份報紙，看著我的孫子孫女們在花園里玩耍，我開始思考“我這輩子想做什么？”
“我已經做了我能做的一切。我很高興回顧過去。我現在可以安息了?！?br /> 人生不是要找到目標，而是要享受這段美麗的旅程。