номер 2, страница 10 - гдз по английскому языку 5-11 класс учебник Latham-Koenig, Oxenden

One point thirteen.

Part one.

So, first of all, Emma, how did you actually manage to get the jobs?

Well, I got the jobs through a mixture of networking and cold calling. So applying to different organizations, finding email addresses online, writing cover letters, explaining my project and attaching my CV. Networking was a big part of it too. So, speaking to someone aware that they themselves might not work in that area, but they might know someone who does.

Was two weeks long enough to get a feel for what doing the jobs more long-term would be like?

For me, it was, yes, because it was just meant to be enough to get a sense of whether this is something I want to learn more about or whether it's something that's actually not for me. And I found I was very quickly able to decide whether I wanted to learn more or or actually maybe not so much. Um, it was just enough to get a flavor of it.

Was it an issue that you had none of the qualifications for some of the jobs?

Well, no, because I was doing work shadowing, which is more about following a professional around, shadowing their daily lives, rather than having my own set work and projects to do. I wasn't expected to have qualifications or to lead my own work. And this is the case, um, quite often with young people who go in and just do some work shadowing, and they just don't have the degree or several years experience that you would need to do professional level work. It's just to find out if that's that's the sort of job they would like to do before they then go and do the qualifications and get the experience.

Um, which job did you enjoy most?

One thing that I enjoyed most was alpaca farming in Cornwall, which is in Southern England. And I enjoyed it most because it was one of the most, one of the jobs that challenged all of my assumptions about what being a farmer in the twenty-first century and earning a sustainable living was like. The first half of each day was traditional farming jobs, so feeding, looking after the animals. But the second half of the day, the farmer was an entrepreneur. She would take her alpacas, shear them, make the wool, spun, uh, make the make the wool into high-end luxury children's clothes that she then sold to department stores across the country. And this was a placement that broke down all of my presumptions and preconceptions about what a job was like.

Wow. Were there any jobs that you completely ruled out?

So, one that I didn't get on quite so well with was publishing, um, because, uh, I'm very dyslexic. And so for me, copy editing, so spotting, um, typos and grammar mistakes in long pieces of texts, I find very challenging. It's not one of my strengths. Um, which in publishing, as an editor, is one of the big things that you have to do.

One point fourteen.

Part two.

Interviewer: What did you learn about yourself during this process?

Emma: I learned that there's not just one job that is right for me. I went into the experience thinking I will do twenty-five and I will figure out which is my dream job and that's what I'll go away and do. But what I found out was that that's not necessarily true at all. I discovered the concept of portfolio careers, which is the idea of having multiple part-time, short-term, freelance, contract jobs that make up the equivalent of one permanent role.

Interviewer: Hmm. Do you think young people nowadays have to be prepared to do many different jobs? That the whole idea of going into one career for life doesn't exist anymore?

Emma: Absolutely. I would completely agree with that. I think the idea of one permanent nine to five job is, if not dead yet, it will be in the next twenty years. Young people today will have on average five different career changes, not job changes, career changes over the course of their lives. And to do that, they need to be able to continuously upskill and be able to get on with different people. So I think it's people skills almost more so than technical skills that will get us through the the longevity of our careers. And bear in mind that people of our age are going to be working well into their seventies. Our careers are likely to be ultra marathons, so we have to like what it is that we're doing.

Interviewer: Hmm. And how do you think we can teach people skills?

Emma: So personally, I think um our education system, both in terms of secondary school, college, and and university, needs to be much more focused on skills rather than technical subject-based learning. We need to be teaching young people how to network for example, which is one of the absolute core skills to progress yourself in your career, is learning how to walk into a room of people you don't know and to find people that are mutually beneficial, that you can develop relationships with.

Interviewer: Ah. So what are you doing now?

Emma: So what I came away with was several different jobs that I ended up doing. So I now work as a public speaker, as a writer, um doing bits of journalism, and uh as a speechwriter as well. So altogether they make up the equivalent of one full-time job.

Interviewer: Hmm. Do you think your future career might take off in a completely different direction?

Emma: I very much expect it to. So one of the main things that I also learned from doing the project was that there are different careers that are appropriate for different stages of your life. As you get older, you have different priorities, different financial commitments, different stages of of your personal life. And that means that you have different jobs that are relevant at different stages of life. So whilst I adored farming and it was one of my favorite placements, I don't think it is right for me in my twenties living in a very urban city like London. But me in my forties perhaps with a family, I might love to move out to the countryside and start a small, a small holding farm, uh as part of several other different elements of a career.

Interviewer: Well, thank you, Emma, so much for talking to us today.