你是人才还是人力
◎文/（台湾）张曼娟
《青年文摘·彩版》2009年第2期“工作坊”
有个律师朋友也在学校里兼课，他常会找一些学生来做研究助理。
有几个年轻助理，跟着他两三年，我们也就认识了。其中有个叫做阿雅的女孩，我头一次见到她，她捧着好多档案匣，像表演特技似的，从楼梯上下来。一脸都是笑，嘴又甜，律师朋友对我说：“阿雅人很乖的。”
我一直以为他对阿雅很满意，也以为阿雅毕业后会留在事务所，没想到，我有一天竟在计算机展览会的叫卖摊位上，看见了吆喝着“最后机会，割喉价！不买你会后悔”的阿雅。
“什么时候离开事务所的？”我在拥挤的人潮中，扯着嗓子问阿雅。
她的眼圈忽然有些红：“离开三个月了。老师说我不是干这一行的，我只好走了……”
我听了觉得心酸，也不知道怎么安慰她，扯开嗓门问：“在这里还好吗？”
“反正就是工作嘛。没差！”她努力地笑着，给自己打气。过了一段时间，我遇见律师朋友，他身边的助理变少了，也没有那种像阿雅一样笑脸迎人的类型。
“缩编啦？”我笑着问，“都看不见甜美的笑脸了。”
朋友微笑地说：“阿雅啊，我让她离开了。她不适合做这个工作。”
“是吗？我倒觉得她挺卖力的。”
“卖力有什么用？我需要的是人才，不是人力。”
我有点震撼。
关于人才与人力，确实是我以前没想过的问题，我一直以为只要够投入，就能把事情做好，却忽略了专业性与准确性，人才才是最重要的。
如果方法不对，就只是白费力气；如果不能让自己更专业，就无法成为人才，只能沦为人力。人力随处可得，人才却需要发现，需要培养。
“你可以培养她，让她变成人才啊。”我还在挣扎。
朋友疲倦地看了我一眼： “有些人已经设定了自己是人才，有些人无所谓，要怎么培养啊？他自己都无所谓了。”
我忽然想到阿雅在卖场说的那句话：“反正就是工作嘛。没差！”
也许就是因为都没差，才失去了竞争力吧。
我终于沉默了。
您认为，你是人才还是人力呢？
译文:
Are You A Talent Or A Labour?
Are You A Talent Or A Labour?
(Taiwan) Zhang manjuan
Youth Literary Digest VOL 2 .2009 " WORKSHOP"
I have a lawyer friend who also works in a college. From time to time, he picks up some students to work for him as research assistants.
There were a couple of young assistants following him for 2 to 3 years. I also naturally made acquaintance with them. One of them is a girl called Aya. When I met her for the first time, she was carrying a pile of papers like doing some stunt walking down the stair with a smile on her face. She's sweet and kind. my lawyer friend told me :" Aya is very obedient."
I used to think that he was quite satisfied with her performance and would let her stay in the law firm. However, to my surprise, I caught a sight of her near a selling booth in a computer exhibition fair one day. She was right there shouting :" The only one chance in your life time! Cut-throat price! You will regret if you miss it!"
"When did you leave the firm?" I asked like shouting at her out of a noisy sea of people.
Her eyes suddenly turned wet:" It has been three mouths. My tutor told me I am not suitable for this field and I have to leave..."
My heart sank for her words and I found no words to say. So I shouted at her again:" Are you ok now?"
"It's all the same. A job. No big deal at all!" She tried hard to squeeze a smile to encourage herself. A few days later, I encountered my lawyer friend. There were fewer assisstants and fewer people with a smile on face like Aya.
"redundancy, ha?" I asked smilely:" almost no happy faces left here!"
He also simled:" You mean Aya? I asked her to leave because she's not suitable for this."
"Is that so? She worked really hard, I think."
"Working hard makes no sense at all! What I need is a talent, not a labour."
I was shocked.
When it comes to talents and labours, I seldom think about it. I used to think as long as one tried her best in doing something, he or she can do it well, but I forget the importance of speciality and accuracy. And what's more important is talent.
If we do things in a wrong way, it will just turn out to be a waste of time; if we can't make ourselves more professional, we can just become a labour but a talented people. Labours are everywher but talents need to be found and trained.
"Why don't you trained her into a talented one?" I still insisted.
He took a look at me with no patience:" Someone have already regarded themselves as talents while someone feel just all the same whether to be talents or not. So, how can I train her even if she don't want it?"
What Aya's words in the fair suddenly crashed into my mind:"It's all the same. A job. No big deal at all!"
Maybe it's that "no big deal" stuff finally kick her out of this competition.
I silenced finally.
And you? Are you a talent or a labour?