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　One of the biggest decisions you have to make in your life is the decision about your job. Between now and when you die, you will spend many hours at work. You can find out a lot about the job by reading and asking about it, but sometimes that doesn’t help much. If you shop for a coat, you can check the color, the design, the material, and so on, but it is only after you have tried it on that you can believe that a particular coat is the right one for you.

　How can you “try on” a job for a while before deciding that it is the right one for you? One possibility is through work experience. But how can you get such experience? Well, for example, while you are still at school, you could spend a few days working at a job that interests you. That would give you work experience. It’s a good way to “try on” a job.