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so I make 65,000 for my best salary uh

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roughly 40K I'm on 15 an hour uh 42,000

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70,000 a year and I'm on 40,000 a year

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so I think last year about 27,000 on the

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tax return can you tell me what your

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salary will be of your job uh 36,000

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there are a lot of places you do go into

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that will say they not advertising but

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they they'll they'll take people on if

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you go in and say I really want a job

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they'll go all right we'll see what we

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can do the cost living in Brighton is is

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quite High I'm living at home for a year

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first so

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clever parents are giving the thumbs up

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hi everyone hope you're all well and

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welcome to a new episode of easy English

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today I wanted to ask the question about

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jobs I want to know what people do to

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make a living in the UK how they trained

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for that job if they even have a

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University degree what advice they have

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for getting on the job market and also

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the taboo question how much do they make

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before we get started if you're a

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regular viewer of easy English but

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hit the button below here we go what do

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you do for a living uh I work in Tech

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and whereabouts do you is your work uh

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so I actually work remotely uh I live in

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London in uh chisik uh we have an office

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in Houston opposite Google uh but

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prominantly I what remote layout of ches

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okay and then can I ask what is your

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salary yeah sure uh so I make a a a

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split between base salary and then

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commission's wealth so I make 65,000 for

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my base salary and then another 40,000

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on top of that could you tell me what

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you do for a living uh yeah I've just

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graduated so I'm just about to start a

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job working in finance in London

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congratulations uh and uh where about

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where abouts in London were you be

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working uh in Stratford okay great and

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then if you don't mind me asking can you

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tell me what your salary will be of your

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job uh 36,000 uh I'm a secondary school

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teacher local and I teach physics so

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yeah that's kind of the in Brighton in

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Brighton yeah yeah yeah yeah and then

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would you mind if if you don't mind me

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telling me how much you earn your salary

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uh roughly

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40K uh I am head of geography so I'm a

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secondary school teacher could you tell

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me what your salary is uh I don't know

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I'm a cleaner I work on built insights

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okay so I go into a building like the

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new builds and rip up all corx and all

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the packaging on everything and then we

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clean it thoroughly um and then we go

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back again and we do another clean um

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yeah that's and then I do end Tendencies

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so when people move out of houses we go

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and clean them and students

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wheny student accommodations they're the

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messiest but yeah we go in and we we

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clean it or make it right it varies I'm

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on 155 an hour but it depends on how

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many hours we do I can earn like one 4 a

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day or it all depends it depends if it's

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an end of tency it's less so it all

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varies you get busy periods probably

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like end of terms and stuff yeah

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definitely the building SES more money

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than end tencies but it varies I work

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for S fine rescue service in the control

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room up at s covering East West and uh s

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oh wow cool nice job and um can I ask

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for free to say no how much you make for

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in your salary uh 42 2000 should I go

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first because it's B so we both both

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work in recruitment I work in the back

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office doing um on boarding and

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compliance and reading through contracts

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I work for a german-based satellite

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manufacturer so I hire Engineers who

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essentially design hardware for space

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I'm on an internal salary and I'm on

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about 70,000 a year um and then yeah I'd

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get a kind of delivery commission based

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both at the end of the year as well I

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got you okay yeah so it's based on The

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Hires I make for the company okay nice

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and I'm on 40,000 a year um a painter

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and decorator last year had a gap of

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three months I chose not to work for

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three months I think last year about

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27,000 on a tax return I am a

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psychologist and uh my next question

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feel free to tell me to like buger off

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um would you mind telling me your salary

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as a psychologist yes to buger off

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okay I'm not I'm sorry no no it's good

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it's good no I'm not telling you my yeah

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that's good because in some countries

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it's completely fine say salary but in

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Britain it's a bit more of a taboo now

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true yes I think in Britain is a bit of

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a there is a lot of assumption and

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that's why espe I just would rather

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the video what would you say for if you

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someone wants to try to get a job in

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London would be like a minimum salary

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they should be looking for to get I

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think minimum if you want to have like a

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nice life in London but your sensible is

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probably 40 45,000 I would say is the

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bare minimum would you say that is a

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sustainable amount of money to live in

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UK or specifically London maybe I would

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say in London it's pushing it it's just

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just about maybe scrape by but I'm

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living at home for a year first so

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clever parents are giving the thumbs

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up okay so then what would you think

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would be an acceptable uh wage to live

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and survive in London and have like

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enjoy a nice life

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um I think 40,000 a year as a single

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person you can live a reasonable life

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but that probably wouldn't be enough to

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get you on the housing ladder or save

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much of the future or anything like that

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uh I think around that value yeah around

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40K is what what you'd be looking for

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for like a kind of nice life and uh yeah

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buying buying things that you want I

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guess if you're coming to become a

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teacher your starting salary is going to

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be mid 20 grand so mid 20s probably for

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for starting out as a newly qualified

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teacher and I've been teaching for 20 OD

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years so um yeah I mean you need to look

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for something that is going to give you

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a good salary so that you can enjoy

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living by the Sea how how much would you

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say would be in in Brighton and UK yeah

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what would be like a a decent wage that

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could means you could live a happy life

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if you lived on your own as well um

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30,000 do a year I would say what would

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be like a good wage that you'd have to

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earn to live a nice life in your opinion

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gosh I don't know what would you say I

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don't really know uh 30k plus yeah plus

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yeah plus for Brighton yeah but

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plus yeah oh probably 40 it's just

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enough and is that the case across the

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whole UK do you think that 40 is a good

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minimum I think it's an average pay for

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working full-time okay our rent and

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bills in a two bed flat was about 22 a

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month yeah yeah okay yeah so it's 40

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plus is kind of uh it's on the bread

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line probably and how does that compare

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to the rest of the UK If you if you

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understand well we've got friends that

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live up in sheffi and my friends managed

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to buy a house on her

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own less than 200 Grand and it's a three

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better yeah I can feel like the

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resentment

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you pay to live down here don't you I

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mean it's amazing it's by the Sea

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Brighton's got such a good social

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exactly thing going on so you know

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living in the south of England is super

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expensive did you have to get a degree

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did you study for it yes specifically

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psychology both in Italy and here and is

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that necessary uh for to be a

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psychologist in to be a reg like a

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qualified clinical psychologist yes what

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did you do in order to get your job like

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uh education wise did you go to

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university yeah I studied psychology

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which I think helps for my role because

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it helps me understand myself and also

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people do you think you even need to

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have a degree in order to work in most

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Fields outside of you know being a

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doctor or something like this other than

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those things I I would say absolutely

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not I would say if in terms of sort of

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work practicality and apprenti ship or

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things like that probably more practical

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in most cases but you should go to UNI

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if you want to for the for the

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experience do you have to do a degree to

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become teacher is it advised to if you

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wanted to get on that into that job

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market you uh yeah you would need a

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degree to to become a teacher um it's

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not always in the subject that you're

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looking to teach in so a lot of teachers

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who do teach physics didn't do a Physics

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degree um but it is desirable and I

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think makes you get makes you more more

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desirable candidate but do you think it

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helps to have a degree in general to no

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no I don't I don't think that's a

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requirement anymore there's so many jobs

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you can do now that that doesn't need

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further education because you can learn

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on the job there's Apprentice

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apprenticeships and um lots of other

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jobs where you can train and Tradesmen

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and all kinds of jobs where you can you

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don't need to um have a university

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education to do like entry level yeah

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positions yeah yeah yeah because going

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to University is super expensive so you

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need to really want to do that so um you

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can there's so many other jobs that you

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can do that that don't require that that

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high level of Education would you say

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that people need to have a degree

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nowadays you think I don't think so no

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you think entry level and apprenti ships

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are I think that's the way forward is

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learning on the learning actually on the

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job did you study to do this

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specifically or did you need a degree to

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do this no neither of us went to

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University do you have any advice in

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terms of how to get a job any tips or

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tricks just keep looking don't give up

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don't just look online and just think oh

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you know go in and ask people places you

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know cuz a lot of people don't advertise

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so just go in and ask if you feel like

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you want to do something somewhere in a

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certain shop go in I think cuz degrees

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are diminishing and value very much so

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unless you're going to go to quite a

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well regarded University you'd probably

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be better off looking at alternative

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qualifications that are going to be more

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practical put you in less debt you need

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to make sure that you look around um

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look around for what you're actually

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interested in um and don't necessarily

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settle on kind of the first thing that

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you see there are obviously depend on

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what you're looking for but there are a

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lot of jobs uh out there in various

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markets and it does require a little bit

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of kind of weighing up your options and

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yeah don't don't just settle on the

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first thing I think I see I think hard

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work hard work pays off hard work pays

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off in whatever you do whatever job you

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do if you work hard you will succeed and

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and never give up really just keep

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persevering and you will eventually get

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to where you want to be nice very nice

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you said what advice would you give in

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order to get the jobs that you had or

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similar I reckon if you get given an

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opportunity and you don't what's going

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on and you don't think you can do it

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just give it a go anyway learn as you

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can don't be afraid to ask questions

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work hard like obviously if you're doing

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a degree you have to work really hard to

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get that but if you haven't got that

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behind you you've got to just work hard

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be willing and open to new things in the

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work environment and yeah just work your

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way up in that respect really I would

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try and plan out what path you want to

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take so sort of map ahead of time the

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career trajectory and then take the

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steps necessary to make that happen so

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often you'll need a University degree to

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get entry level roles um so find what

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you're interested in map out the process

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and then take the necessary steps to to

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make it happen work hard Network the

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world your oyer thanks for watching this

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week's episode what a surprise almost

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every single person told me their wage

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bizarre let us know in the comments

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below if you're thinking about joining

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the UK job market and as always we'll

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see you next time t

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