point in my life. 就我个人来说，到了这个年纪改行干别的，不会有多大出息。
profession: "职业"，指只有受过相当高的专门教育或训练，具有了某种专业知识和技能并有创造力的人才能从事的职业，过去专指法律，医学和神学，现在扩展到其他许多具有相当社会地位的工作，如教育，演艺等。常用词组：by profession （就职业而言）。例如：He chose to make his friends mostly among members of the advertising profession. 他喜爱主要在以设计广告为职业的成员中交朋友。He was found early that he had a vocation for the ministry, though he ended up in the law profession instead. 尽管他最后当上了律师,但人们发现他早年从事的是神职工作。
5、of one's own, one's own
这两个词组都是“自己的”的意思。
of one's own中的own作名词用。整个短语表示“属于某人自己”的意思，只作后置修饰语，修饰带有a(n), this, that, some, any, no, one, two, 等限定词的名词或修饰one, nothing, something, anything 等不定代词。例如：She has a mind of her own. 她颇有主见。I have nothing of my own. 我自己一无所有。The workers took him as one of their own. 工人们把他当作自己人。
one's own既可用作名词，意指“自己的东西”；亦可用作形容词，意指“自己的”。例如：This house is his own. (= This is his own house.) 这座房子是他自己的。（= 这是他自己的房子。）I saw it with my own
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