Speakout Pre-intermediate Video Podcast Unit 2 Work

Speakout Pre-intermediate Video Podcast
Unit 2
Work

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

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

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

or even to tidy my flat.

What do you do?

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

I’m an accountant.

I work in advertising.

I’m a film-maker.

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

I work in an office.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I work as an expedition leader.

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

I work part-time in a music-store.

Where do you work?

I work in London.

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

I work from home in central London.

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

I work in London.

I mostly work in Berlin.

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

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

I work here in the city of London.

I work from home then I also work in schools.

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

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

outside the United Kingdom.

What are the best things about your job?

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

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

The flexibility.

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

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

When I get to be hands on with everything.

Working with my colleagues and friends.

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

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

I really love that.

And the worst things?

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

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

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

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,

that hurts you a lot.

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

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

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

so sometimes it’s hard to make plans.

Just the distance being away from my family.

You miss family, you miss friends,

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