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Hi everybody. Welcome to a new episode

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of Easy English. So currently, as you

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can probably tell, I'm not in Brighton.

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I'm actually in Müster. But before we

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left, we made a video in Brighton asking

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what the people of Brighton do for work.

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I wanted to know how people fell into

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working in the jobs they do now and what

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they do and don't like about their jobs.

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is what people do for work. Here we go.

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Can you tell me um what you do uh for

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work?

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>> Um currently I'm a music teacher in

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Barcelona. I work in an international

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school um teaching in English and yeah,

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primary and secondary.

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>> Okay. I used to be a teacher, but I

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retired in July.

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>> Um, I'm a posty. I work for Royal Mail.

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So, um, I work part-time doing that 4

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days a week.

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>> What do you do for a job?

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>> So, I work in a special education needs

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school in Lancing, um, with children and

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young people with uh, communication

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needs, behavioral needs. Um, and we

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just, yeah, my role is pastoral and

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safeguarding. So, just trying to work

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with them, um, educate them.

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>> Wow. Okay, that's a mouthful. Um, do

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what's your do you have like a job like

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a specific job title?

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>> Yes, so I have five.

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>> What do you do for work?

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>> Uh, my name is Sh and I work at as a

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ramp employee at airport and I am a

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turnaround coordinator and I uh

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coordinate the turnaround process of an

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aircraft.

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>> I am an underwriter for an insurance

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company.

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>> What do you do for a job? Um, so I work

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at a catering company where I basically

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just serve like food and drinks at like

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weddings and corporate events, sometimes

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like wakes and stuff, but it's like

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mostly weddings.

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>> I used to teach business studies and

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economics to kids um from 11 to 19.

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>> So pastoral assistant, so the way that

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pastoral works in our school is

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basically students that struggle to be

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in the classroom. Yeah. will deliver

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interventions to support them. Um, so it

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depends on the intervention really. So

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it could be as little as an hour a week

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to help a student tie their shoelaces or

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it could be full-time because they can't

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quite manage the classroom setting yet.

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But we do a lot of work to get them to

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that place so that they can go into a

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classroom. Uh, I just graduated from

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school.

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>> Okay.

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>> Uh, I did hotel management because in

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the future maybe I want to have to own a

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hotel. So I thought maybe this is a good

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start to begin with.

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Uh I did it for a year. Uh I did a fast

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truck so I was graduating faster. I mean

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I used

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>> Can I ask what do you do for work?

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>> Um so a bit complicated actually but I

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work for a university but I help other

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universities in the country to do more

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work with their communities to be more

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kind of place-based or civic. So it's

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kind of helping universities connect

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more deeply with with their people and

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their places and their communities.

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>> Who need first? uh a healthcare

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assistant and work with elderly with

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dementia.

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>> Nice. Is that around here?

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>> No. No. Kent.

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>> In Kent. Okay.

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>> I'm a tattoo artist.

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How did both of you fall into that line

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of work? Did something you wanted to do?

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Did it just happen?

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>> Drain for it.

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>> I've always wanted to be that tattoo

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artist really since I was a kid. Just

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drawing non-stop. drawing cartoons, just

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loving it. And then I thought if I can

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make a career out of it, why not?

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>> And for me, um, I had a huge career

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change. My first job was actually in the

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police, in the Metropolitan Police. Oh,

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>> really?

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>> Yeah. And then I just wanted to give a

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little bit more back to I don't know,

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the community. Yeah. Yeah. Just like

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helping people.

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>> That's great. And how long have you been

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a posty for?

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>> I've been doing it for like 10 years now

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for my sins. Um, yeah.

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And how did you um how did you get into

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that line of work?

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>> Um I just wanted something part-time. So

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um cuz I was trying to do art and design

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and music and I

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>> I didn't really know where I was going

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with all that. So I wanted something a

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little bit stable to just keep me going

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afloat while I was uh working towards

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all that. And um

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>> yeah, it was meant to be a stop gap, but

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I I quite enjoy it and it's kept me

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going. So yeah. Where does the passion

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come from for you to want to own your

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own hotel or or where did it come from

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to work or be in sort of hospitality?

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Where did this passion come from?

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>> I don't know. I really like to work with

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people but also help people. I really

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like to uh give some advice to people or

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chat with some people

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>> and just make people have a good time.

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>> Okay. And is catering is hospitality

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your kind of what something you wanted

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to get into initially or do you have

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another idea?

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>> Um

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>> it's it's it's sort of a good way to

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make money while I'm um

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>> while I'm studying but I don't think

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it's something that I necessarily want

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to do longterm. It can be quite like

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intense. I work like quite long hours

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and stuff.

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>> So it's it's like good money while

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you're a student and you're young and

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you have energy,

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>> but I don't think it's a forever thing

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for me.

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>> Yeah. Yeah. And did you train to do

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this? Did you want to do this? How did

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you find?

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>> No, I

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studied over there uh bright uni

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actually. I went did a history in

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politics and my aim was to get into kind

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of government charity work but

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>> wasn't really many jobs going when I

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graduated. So I got a job in insurance

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broker and then

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12 years later I'm working in

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underwriting for an global insurer. So

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>> And you enjoy it?

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>> Yeah. It's so much fun.

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>> Yeah.

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>> It's great stuff. Really busy but it's

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interesting. What would you say is the

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best thing about your job? It's

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>> creativity cuz I'm very much autonomous.

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I can do um left my own devices so I can

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kind of do anything I like with any

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class.

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>> That's great.

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>> Um so yeah, the creativity and the I

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think being a teacher is very social and

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I don't really think you can be

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ultimately that sad and isolated being a

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teacher cuz you're very communicative.

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You always children are hilarious and

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they're always talking to you

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>> and asking you how you doing and you're

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asking funny questions and so it keeps

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you on your toes.

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>> What would you say is the best thing

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about both your jobs?

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>> For me, it's it's knowing that I ending

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my shift and knowing that I've made a

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bit of a difference and yeah, seeing

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seeing my patients smile, that's that's

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the best part for me.

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>> That's lovely.

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>> Same kind of thing, man. Obviously, like

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it's so nice putting your art on people,

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but it's the ones that, you know, the

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people that look at their talent and

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they cry after with happiness. That's

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that's what it's about. They're the ones

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that you go home going, "I did a good

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day today." Do you know what I mean?

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Like that's that's that's what it's

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about.

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>> What was the best thing about your job?

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>> I think the my colleagues the best.

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Yeah.

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>> With your team. Yeah. You have to be uh

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Yeah. You're responsible for the part.

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And uh

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>> yeah, that's really nice to do that with

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a team.

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>> Yeah. I like to be in a team.

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>> And what what's the best thing then

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you'd say about your job?

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>> I think it's being able to see the

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impact that people can have when they

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just think about things a bit

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differently. So thinking a bit less

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about universities as teaching or

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research and more about how they solve

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real problems to real people.

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>> What's the best thing about your job?

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>> Um probably the customers. um if ever

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you are having a slightly grumpy day,

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they're always really like pleased and

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polite to see you on the doorstep.

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They're like happy. They, you know, oh

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great, that was that parcel that I

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ordered for my niece's birthday. And you

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know, I was worried it wasn't going to

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come in time and and they're very nice

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customers. They always, do you want a

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drink or do you want a cup of tea?

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Things like that. So yeah, the best

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thing is the customers, I'd have to say.

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Yeah.

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>> Oh, that's lovely.

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>> It's mainly you. They probably won't do

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that.

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And so go on. What's What's the worst

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thing then? If there is a worst thing.

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>> Um the rain. Yeah. Yeah.

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>> Yeah. It can be as cold as it likes, but

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when it rains, we're not happy as post

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people. No. No. I can imagine

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>> the letters just turn into sort of paper

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mâe and you're just there like why?

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>> And then if you can, what is the kind

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the worst thing? Worst thing you don't

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like?

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>> The worst I think the worst thing is the

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egos in you get a lot of um big egos in

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the academic world. So, lots of

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academics that are kind of very focused

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on their agenda or their piece of work

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and yeah, it's sometimes a struggle to

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cut through some of that

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>> and and actually make some progress

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>> cuz you're shaking things up a little

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bit, I guess. And that's

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>> people don't like change.

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>> People like to keep the traditional

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things in place. Yeah. We're trying to

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come and say

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>> you could do things a bit differently

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here.

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>> Wow. How interesting.

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>> It is interesting.

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>> And now you say that you've just

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retired. Yep.

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>> And how is I mean only just I suppose

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did you

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>> The thing is it's still the school

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holiday so I don't think it's hit me

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yet. Everyone's like what's it like to

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be retired and it's well I' I'm still in

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the school holidays.

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>> Um but it's funny I I've I've just been

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drinking coffee

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with a group of ladies that I've I've

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found um who who who walk along the

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seafront and basically

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>> do all sorts of outings and stuff. Um,

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we're all the same sort of age and yeah,

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I'd be very lucky.

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>> How lovely. So, you're still learning to

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enjoy retired life really.

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>> Well, someone's just said to me, do you

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want to learn to play bridge? Which I

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was like, I've never thought about it.

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Yeah, go on then. I'll give it a go. So,

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who knows?

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>> It's a bit middle class, isn't it? But,

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