What steps, other than getting a strong education, should you take to reach that goal? The answer you give to that question today is probably (a)   different than the answer that students sitting in those seats gave twenty-five or thirty years ago.

In fact, today’s (a)   is very different from the one that was common even a few decades ago. The path radically varies from one person to another.

A good picture of the traditional ________ for _____________ would be a businessperson climbing up a single ladder, one step at a time.

(a)  

Traditionally, workers were usually (a)   to their companies.

They (a)   their entire working lives to the same company. They are loyal.

The workers stayed at the company and (a)   as far as they could, at which point, they would simply stop moving up.

In return, the company became (a)   and protected the workers.

The workers (a)   the company to pay them during their working lives and take care of them once they were too old to work.

The (a)   of those in modern model is to learn as much as they can at one company before moving on to another.

Gap year is a (a)   which refers to the time taken off between high school and college to gain a hands-on experience.

A growing number of our young people are (a)   to be different by taking a gap year.

Antonia House is about to graduate from high school in Manhattan, but as her (a)   are picking out dorm room furniture, she’s preparing to go globetrotting.

A lot of people in Europe take time off. I’m not getting that sort of American college experience, but, I (a)   I’m getting my own thing, and that’s really what I want.

Taking time off is almost like school in the sense that you need to plan every day, every month. It’s not something you figure out as you go along because the (a)   of the exercise is to create a year for yourself that’s better.

The point of taking the time off is to create a year for yourself that's more valuable than being at college at that (a)   moment.

I was at the same school for 10 years. It was really very (a)   , academically.

I was in Boston, often until, you know, 7 or 8 at night, and then, made the hour-long (a)   back to the suburbs.

(a)   1,700 hours of community service provided plenty of life lessons.

Just three weeks ago, Trudee graduated from Trinity. And while most of her peers are (a)   the real world for the first time, she can say she’s been there, done that.

You’ll realize how quickly a year goes by, if anything, that’s what I learned. And just make the most of all the little moments, all the experiences you have within that year, because it’ll (a)   into the future.

She’s already taken a job as an elementary school teacher, and she says her gap year experience really (a)   on her resume.