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Hi, I’m Henna, I work for the BBC in London as a researcher.

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I’ve learnt a lot of skills in my job and I’ve made some good friends at work.

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Sometimes my job gets too busy and I don’t get enough time to relax,

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or even to tidy my flat.

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What do you do?

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I’m an administrator in an economics department of a university.

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I’m an accountant.

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I work in advertising.

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I’m a film-maker.

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I’m a mechanical engineer for an energy company in Australia.

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I work in an office.

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I’m a singing teacher, I teach singing lessons.

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I’m a private investigator,I run a private investigation company in Germany.

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I’m a charity worker, so I travel to different places in the world.

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Well, I’m semi-retired now but I worked for many years for a publishing company, book publishing.

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I am the director of sales for a software company called ‘B-line’.

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I’m a college professor, I teach communication and journalism at ….university.

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I work as an expedition leader.

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I’m a fashion photographer and I work for a fashion agency.

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I work part-time in a music-store.

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Where do you work?

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I work in London.

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It’s University College London, also known as UCL.

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I work from home in central London.

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I work about 8 hours’ drive from where I live in Brisbane.

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I work in London.

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I mostly work in Berlin.

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The head office is in London, although I work mostly from home now, I

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travel down to London may be two or three times a month.

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I work here in the city of London.

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I work from home then I also work in schools.

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We mainly operate in continents like Asia, Africa and South America so I

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spend a lot of my time abroad, about two thirds of my time is spent

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outside the United Kingdom.

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What are the best things about your job?

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The best things about my job are the different people I meet from all around the world.

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I get to travel, meet lots of different people every day and every day is different.

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The flexibility.

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The variety of work that I have, meeting people throughout the day.

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The best thing is that no day is ever really the same.

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When I get to be hands on with everything.

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Working with my colleagues and friends.

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I’ve made some really good friends over the years, the locals, the local crews I work with.

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Seeing people’s faces when you do something for them and seeing little kids being very happy and laughing,

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I really love that.

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And the worst things?

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The worst thing about my job is that it can get very stressful.

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As much as I love my job there are times when I need to take work home

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to meet deadlines, that’s probably the only bad thing, I can think of right now.

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When you see people who are very poor and very sad and don’t have much opportunity and there is not much they can do about it,

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that hurts you a lot.

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The worst thing about my job is the hours we work, we can be there till about ten, eleven o’clock.

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Long hours, it’s tiring and you are on call quite a lot of the time.

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You never know what you are going to be doing from one day to the next,

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so sometimes it’s hard to make plans.

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Just the distance being away from my family.

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You miss family, you miss friends,

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so I think spending a lot of time outside the UK can have its disadvantages.