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Hi everybody, welcome to a new episode

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of Easy English. So this time we're

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going to head to the streets of Brighton

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and make conversations about work. We're

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going to find out what the people of

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Brighton do for a [music] job, find out

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the pros and cons, and what any advice

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they would have for any aspiring people

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looking to get into their line of work.

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>> [music]

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>> Hi.

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>> Hi.

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>> [laughter]

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>> How's it going today?

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>> Good, thank you.

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>> Oh, all right, yeah, you?

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>> Yeah, pretty good. I'm happy to be out

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filming on a nice day. How's it going?

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>> All good.

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>> Nice. And what are you up to today?

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>> Just on a walk during my lunch break.

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>> I'm here on tour. I'm a tour managing

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for a musician named Sean Rowe.

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>> Today we're doing some stuff for work.

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So my partner here, we're we're doing

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stuff for couplets in the bunker, so

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it's a recent show that we're doing.

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>> Ah.

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>> And so we're going around and we put

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stickers everywhere.

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Just to get it out there, get a bit of

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advertising for them. For the fringe.

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>> And for the fringe?

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>> Are you guys studying? Are you working?

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>> Yeah, we're both studying.

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>> Yeah, both different universities, but

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same topic.

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>> But in both in Brighton?

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>> Yes.

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>> Nice, okay. And what what have you been

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studying?

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>> Film.

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>> Film. Films.

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>> Yeah, we're on holiday this week, but we

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just we live here. We're just

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staycation.

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>> Staycation, that's always a good option.

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And

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what do you what would you usually be

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doing on a day like today?

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>> Uh working, I guess.

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>> [laughter]

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>> And where do you where do you work at

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the moment?

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>> I work at the University of Sussex.

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>> Ah, right, interesting. As what what

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job?

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>> Uh in international student recruitment.

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>> Um I'm a solicitor. I work in private

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client work, wills, trusts, and

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probates.

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>> That's right, yeah?

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>> Yeah.

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>> And you?

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>> Um I'm a trainee solicitor, so I'm

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training in privacy,

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risk and compliance law.

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>> We're just on our days off.

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>> Yeah, days off, yeah.

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>> What do you both usually do?

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>> Well, we're both

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um

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uh musicians, but we've also got our day

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jobs. I do housekeeping.

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>> And I work at Asda.

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I work in retail.

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>> But aspiring musician. Aspiring

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musician.

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>> I'm a barista. So I just did cafes and

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everything like that.

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>> Nice. For like a big brand or a little

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>> a little little little tiny brand in the

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middle of nowhere.

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>> Is that how you like it?

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>> Yeah, it's it's good and bad. But I'm

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going to university so it's my job

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before then.

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>> You are both work colleagues?

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>> Yes.

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>> Okay, and where where do you work?

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>> Morton Cran Case List is.

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>> It's a law firm.

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>> A law firm. Okay, are you lawyers?

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>> Yes, we are.

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>> I tour manage, yeah. So yeah, so I take

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care of the logistics for the tour and

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make sure, you know, we're not sleeping

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outside and getting getting to places on

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time and things like that.

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>> So this is a

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>> No, [laughter] I'm a commercial manager

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for strategic accounts for a large

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global company.

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We sell construction and mining

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equipment.

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>> Wow, okay, interesting. And yourself?

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>> I'm a commercial photography

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photographer. I shoot primarily [music]

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food and drink

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for food and drink brands.

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>> Oh, are you like adding putting makeup

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on tomatoes and stuff?

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>> No, that's awful. We keep everything

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natural.

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>> You could eat it.

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>> Uh so mostly because we want to eat it

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after we shoot it.

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>> [laughter]

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>> Yeah, this primarily there.

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>> Shoot it quick so we can eat.

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>> [music]

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>> How are you enjoying your job today?

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>> Uh today, I'm loving it. I I'm I feel

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like [laughter] a just a little

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just going around like a little dog, you

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know? I'm I'm happy. I love it, you

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know? Any anything I can do to help my

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partner here and help the company, I

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love it. So, and I love the arts. So,

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anything to support the arts, I'm here

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for it.

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>> Good on you. Good on you. What are you

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hoping to get on to do after you finish

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studying?

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But maybe specifically.

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>> I want to do camera work.

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>> Okay, nice.

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>> Definitely work with cameras and

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technical things.

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>> Okay. And how about yourself?

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>> Uh I'm really interested in like

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documentary making.

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>> What are you going to study to

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>> Uh digital marketing. So, it's going to

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be

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>> [laughter]

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>> very exciting. I'm very excited to do

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it.

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>> And would you like to work for like a

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certain company when you graduate?

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>> Mm not at the moment, but there's quite

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a few options I'd like to maybe pursue,

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but I'm just doing marketing at the

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moment to see what I want to do in the

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future.

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>> What do you both play?

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>> Uh we're both guitarists, actually.

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>> Guitarists and vocals.

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>> In the same band?

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>> Yes.

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>> Yes. What's your band called?

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>> Uh we we haven't decided yet, actually.

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>> No, no. Really early days, actually. We

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we both had a few projects that kind of

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fell apart and we're like, might as well

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do something together, you know?

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>> That's great, yeah. And and what kind of

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style

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or do you not know that that either?

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We've got

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>> alternative punky

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>> There's a bit of indie.

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>> Bit bit of indie.

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>> Bit of like emo because I mean, look at

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me.

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>> We we're just those pretentious

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musicians. We do our own thing, man. We

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do our own We do our own thing.

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>> Yeah, yeah. Is this the Aussie band

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going to smoke?

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>> Oh, the chats, yeah.

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>> Yeah, I know this band, yeah. Yeah,

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they're [laughter] brilliant. Something

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like that, maybe?

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>> Yeah. In parts, to be fair, yeah. In

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parts, yeah.

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>> As a trainee solicitor that's right.

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What are like the pros and cons of this

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job and this study?

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>> Ooh, good question. That's a really good

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question. Not one that I get asked often

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enough

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or often at all.

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>> [laughter]

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>> I guess the pros would be

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you get the satisfaction of doing

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something for someone

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helping someone through a really tough

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time

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and helping someone with a problem.

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>> Pros I get to be in Brighton you know

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and like [laughter] have 2 hours or like

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an hour and a half to walk around

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Brighton

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and you know a lot of different places

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it usually get a little walk around the

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venue.

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It's a nice community to be in I like I

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like to support it and and facilitate.

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You know just keeping it going.

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>> It's lovely doing lots of different jobs

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and sort of connecting with lots of

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people across the world.

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>> Yeah that must be nice to meet.

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New faces every time what are some cons

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to the job?

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>> Oh man

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it's tiring it's long hours.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Yeah if you can't work out the hourly

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wage because it doesn't make sense.

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But you know it's a great thing to do

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with my time so.

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>> Yeah yeah.

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>> I love doing it with I love doing it

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with my time.

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>> I quite like the variety of the work I

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do so every day is kind of a different

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day so it keeps keeps the brain sharp I

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think it keeps things interesting.

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>> Yeah.

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>> But obviously then the other side of

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that is very long hours so it's

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not always a 9-5 and it can be

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stressful.

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>> Stressful long hours?

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>> Yeah it can be long hours sometimes the

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clients are upset so it makes things

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difficult for us to manage their

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emotions.

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>> So quite demanding job is it?

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>> Yeah.

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>> Absolutely.

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>> Cons they can get really busy.

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>> I bet right oh yeah right you probably

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have like really busy periods and really

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not busy periods.

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And what what are the are the pros and

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cons of studying film?

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>> I guess the uncertainty of it it's quite

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a hard thing to get into after

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university but.

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>> Right.

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>> It's all about who you meet at while

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we're here so.

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>> That's a good point.

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>> So fun.

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>> It's very fun.

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>> Creative.

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>> Do you have any advice for people who

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are also to study marketing.

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>> Um just pursue what you want to do and

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maybe there's all different routes in

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marketing, so you can pursue any type of

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job you want.

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>> Go to gigs and have fun with it. Have

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fun with it as well. Just go to gigs,

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meet people. You never know who you

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meet.

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>> Just like make as many films as

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possible. Just do it.

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>> It doesn't matter if it's good or bad.

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Just create and then you'll get better.

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It's a learning curve.

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>> I think just get after it.

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Um you know, get get to get to um yeah,

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just be involved in your community.

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>> Get as much experience as you can.

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>> Okay.

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>> Um just in terms of

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different kind of areas of law,

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different law firms, and do a bit of

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research about what you'd like um to

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make sure that

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you are in it for the long run because

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it's a emotionally difficult job um and

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long hours, and so you need to be

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passionate about it to want to do it.

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>> Ah.

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>> Yeah, it's not it's not all suits.

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>> [laughter]

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>> Yeah, nice to say that. Oh, thank you

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very much. Nice to meet you, too.

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>> Pleasure. Lovely to meet you, too.

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>> Thank you.

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>> Take care.

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>> Nice to meet you.

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>> Yeah, you too. Take it easy.

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Thanks so much.

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>> Nice to meet you.

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>> Yeah, nice to meet you.

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>> Cheers. Thank you.

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>> It was really nice to meet you. Have a

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nice rest of your day.

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>> Thank you.

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>> It was nice to meet you.

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>> Hey, nice to meet you, too. Yeah, it's

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cool you're doing this.

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>> So, good luck with that. Nice to meet

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you.

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>> Nice to meet you, too.

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>> It was really nice to meet all four of

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you. Enjoy your time on your staycation

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and visiting.

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>> Thank you so much.

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>> Thank you so much.

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>> See you later.

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It was nice to meet you, too.

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>> Yeah, nice to meet you, too.

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>> Thanks for watching [music] this week's

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episode. Let us know in the comments

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below as a challenge what you do for

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work [music] and the pros and cons of

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your line of work. And as always, we'll

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see you next time. Ta-ra.

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