A. Dina Dorset
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 856.
You are going to read some interviews with women who have unusual jobs. For questions 1-15 choose from the people A-D. The people may be chosen more than once. There is an example at the beginning.
Women in Unusual Jobs
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Which interview is with someone who:
| A | works part-time? | |
| had a better salary in an earlier job? | ||
| cannot make friends at work? | ||
| will get a university qualification? | ||
| has to pretend she is always happy? | ||
| writes to her customers? | ||
| meets her customers socially? | ||
| organizes activities for older people? | ||
| was promoted at work? | ||
| does not like her voice? | ||
| has a job that affects her health? | ||
| had an earlier job as a teacher? | ||
| thinks attitudes towards her work have changed? | ||
| has the job she has always wanted? | ||
| considers work more important than family? | ||
| has responsibility for quality control? |
is a disc jockey in a night-club in London. A few years ago she thought her future was in tennis. ‘For a while I trained promising young players on a full-time basis, but one day a neighbour who was a radio producer took me down to his radio station and I became involved in the music scene', she says. There are lots of late nights for Dina but surprisingly the job doesn't offer her much in the way of a social life. ‘I don't have any real contact with the large numbers of people I meet', she says. She particularly likes the fact that she now only works four hours a day. ‘The one thing I resent is having to appear cheerful all the time even when I feel down', she says. She hopes to be able to produce her own records one day but she has given up her ambition of going to college. ‘You can't do everything in life', she says.
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