2016年托福作文冲刺高分作文赏析（五）

　　Which do you prefer with the same rate of pay, an interesting and challenging job with lessvacation or a job with more vacation time butless fun?

　　托福写作范文赏析

　　The next two months will witness the graduationof a huge number of college students in China, triggering an urgent issue whether it is better toseek an interesting and challenging job with lessvacation than finding those jobs with more vacationbut less fun. From my perspective, a challengingand interesting job matters more.

　　For one thing, mentally challenging jobs can keep employees’ mind sharp even long afterretirement. To put it more specific, even a mentally demanding job may stress workers outtoday; it can provide important benefits after retirement. “Based on data spanning 18 years, astudy suggests certain kinds of challenging jobs have the potential to enhance and protectworkers’ mental functioning in later life,” said by Gwenith Fisher, a faculty associate at theUniversity of Michigan Institute for Social Research. The research analyzed data on 4,182 participants in the U-M Health and Retirement Study, which surveys a representative sampleof more than 20,000 older Americans every two years and the final result reveals people whohad worked in jobs with greater mental demands were more likely to have better memoriesbefore they retired and more likely to have slower declines in memory after retiring thanpeople who had worked in jobs with fewer mental demands. Accordingly, being engaged in achallenging and interesting job will benefit employees’ mental functioning.

　　For another thing, the more challenging the job is, the higher salaries employees will bepaid with. Generally speaking, a challenging job will require employees to master multiplecapabilities and techniques and to undertake more responsibilities. Thus, they will be paid withhigh salaries, making it possible for them to do whatever stirs up their interest. For instance, one of my friends named Jason works as a top software engineer in a renewed IT company inChina and he is well paid. Besides, his hobby is photography and travel in foreign countries. Onweekends or public holidays he often chooses to take photographs in different places of historicinterest and scenic beauty or travel abroad. In the near two years, he has traveled in manycountries in Europe and Southeast Asia and take a lot of beautiful pictures. Obviously, compared with average citizens in big cities who are busy in dealing with a variety of problemsin daily lives, Jason’s life experience can tell us that his high-paid job gives him chances to live amore leisure life during vacation.

　　Admittedly, if people choose to take a less-fun job with more vacation, they can spend moretime with their families and doing what they like. In this way, they will live a less-pressure life. However, from what I believe, people should try their best to play to their strengths and talentson the career path especially when they are young and a challenging job will requireemployees to be fully devoted.

　　To conclude, a challenging job with less vacation is superior to a job with more vacationbut less fun. (498 words)