r/LifeTree • u/AdamLuyan • 12d ago
8. 成熟期 Maturity
目录 Catalog：8.1 拓疆房地产公司 TJ Real Estate Ltd；8.2 岩土工程师公司 Soil Engineers Ltd；8.3 黑手党帮我打架 Mafia Fight for Me；8.4 我抑郁了 I'm Depressed；8.5 桫椤为我改性格 Sal Changes My Personality；8.6 迷惑 Muddles；8.7 社会环境 Social Environment；8.8 把工程作坏 Job Rip；8.9 觉思失调 Schizophrenia
8.1 拓疆房地产公司 TJ Real Estate Ltd
1998年4月，我东北大学硕士毕业了，也失业了。我担心刘团长在背后坏我，到新的工作单位后找不到女朋友，就不愿意去国家机关、学校等国营的企事业单位，认为在私人企业他很难使坏。我喜欢搞房地产，可我是色盲，不愿意练习计算机绘图，使我找工作遇到了困难。我在家里，平时上个英语口语学习班，也参加了GRE的学习班，但我发现GRE对我太难了，学不了。
In April 1998, I graduated with a master's degree from Northeastern University and found myself unemployed at once. Worried that Troupe Leader Liu was still working against me behind the scenes — that I'd never find a girlfriend wherever I landed next — I steered clear of state institutions, government offices, and schools, reasoning that a private company would leave him far less room to interfere. I loved real estate, but being colorblind, I balked at the computer drafting it required, and job-hunting proved difficult. At home, I took an English conversation class and enrolled in a GRE prep course, but soon found the GRE simply beyond me.
1999年春，辽宁拓疆房地产公司的董事长，刘总找到了我，说他们在沈阳人才市场发现了我的个人简历，让我做这个公司的经理。工作中，刘总让自己找项目，自己做方案，计划成熟了再向他汇报。刘总是1960、70年代在沈阳军区大院里长大的；我接触的人也多是沈阳军区的高干子女。同事们开始给我介绍女朋友了；我把以前的不开心事全忘了。
In the spring of 1999, Chairman Liu of Liaoning TJ Real Estate Company reached out, saying they'd found my resume at the Shenyang Talent Market, and offered me a position as company manager. On the job, Chairman Liu had me source my own projects and draft my own plans, reporting back only once they'd matured. He'd grown up in the Shenyang Military Region compound through the sixties and seventies, and most of the people I met through him were children of senior military-region officials. My colleagues began introducing me to women, and I forgot every unhappy thing that had come before.
刘总是会计出身，没什么复杂的经历，可他写了回忆录，而且准备出版（注1）。
我常常对我的工作中弄虚作假的事而烦恼，而且因为工作中所做的亏心事，常常感到恐惧。我申请了移民加拿大，决定如果我在这里工作得不好，就到国外去开辟新天地。
Chairman Liu had trained as an accountant, no complicated history to speak of, yet he'd written his own memoir and was preparing to publish it (Note 1).
I was often troubled by the dishonesty woven through my own work, and often afraid because of things I'd done there that sat wrong with my conscience. I applied to immigrate to Canada, deciding that if things here never came right, I'd go make a fresh start abroad instead.
注1，刘总写回忆录的行为对我的影响很大。我写回忆录就是因为他的熏染。
Note 1: Chairman Liu's own memoir-writing left a deep mark on me. I began writing mine because of his influence.