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you're watching real English with real

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teachers here we are real English with

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real teachers in London baby and uh our

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next episode is going to be talking

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about what people do for a living and

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why they do it we thought best place to

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do it near

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Big Ben and Westminster Abby here we

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go okay nice to meet I'm Harry nice to

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meet you have a great day nice to meet

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you Paul um right so Paul yeah what is

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your job what is my job um well my job

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is a Ste Walker but I'm currently

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contracted for gra Bri fishing chips um

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to hand out fliers at the

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moment um to hand out fers at the moment

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okay and why did you choose this job um

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I didn't actually choose it I have a

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website called stilts and statues um

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email me come through if you need a

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living statue or a Ste Walker to promote

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your business or anything like that I'm

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more than welcome to come along

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obviously for the right price so Martin

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what do you do for work I'm a civil

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servant a civil servant and what does

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that

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involve um I have to be careful what I

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say actually

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so I work in an

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office okay and do you like this job I

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do at the moment how long have you been

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doing this job uh 19 years I'm just

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wondering what do you do for a living

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Chris so when people ask me what I do

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for a living I never quite know what to

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say

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interesting I feel you

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because even people who work with me

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don't quite know how to describe me ah

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right so

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I uh I went to University for seven

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years I have a

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PhD I run my own

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company and but I do whatever's

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necessary so if a bit of software needs

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writing I write a bit of software it's a

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it's a technology company so I kind of

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I'm a mad engineering kind of person who

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just likes making things and pulling

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things

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apart and pulling things apart

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and and just understanding how the world

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works and fortunately I've been lucky

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enough to make a living out of it that's

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amazing what is your job Mike uh I'm a

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solicitor okay and why did you choose

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this job uh because I find find the law

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really interesting and I can help people

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uh to solve their problems through using

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my brain which is nice we've got two

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lovely ladies here and we want to ask

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what did you do as a career or a job

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when when you were a little bit younger

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when you were a little bit younger was

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she still working

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fulltime well she's still working

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fulltime but I was a tour manager I took

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groups

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abroad okay and so where did you where

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did you take them all over the

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world yes right okay but I enjoyed

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mostly taking Brits to Canada right okay

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why why did you enjoy taking Brits to

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Canada well I'm I'm dual I've got dual

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nationality so um it's I live in Britain

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I like to take can British people over

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to show them the country where I was

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born and brought up

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country where I was born and brought up

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and the treasures we have over there

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mostly um the landscape and the history

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of Canada yeah thank you very much and

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so coming back to you you you still work

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I'm 84 years old I still work 8 to 10

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hours a

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day and I travel all over the world and

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I love traveling my father was born and

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lived on Regent stre Street here in

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London went to Canada when he was 15

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years old to farm and of course I was

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born in Canada and that's my country but

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I have very deep roots

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here but I have very deep roots here my

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goodness so just taking a moment to uh

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analyze the questions we're saying what

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do you do a lot of the time the word do

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being the career or the job job that

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they are doing so when you hear that

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question what do you do remember it's

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talking about their career or their job

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