Simplified Speech #010 – First Jobs

First jobs aren’t usually glamorous, but they can make for some interesting stories! Join Andrew and Morag in this episode as they discuss their first experiences in the working world and some of the surprising ways their jobs worked out for them.     Andrew: We were able to cut our work down substantially. We delivered to the 10 houses that complained, and usually we would just ditch the other newspapers. We were bad. But… Morag: That is incredibly funny, and really smart, but not what you were paid to do. Andrew: No. But I justified it by the fact that they paid us such a small amount of money. It was almost a slave wage. It was really, really bad, so… I don’t know. I kind of feel a little guilty, though, I have to admit. Morag: To be honest, I never knew anybody who read the kinds of papers that you would have been delivering. So it’s probably only those 10 people who really wanted them. You’re fine. Andrew: Exactly. I have another funny story about the newspaper that I’ll tell quickly ’cause I like it and I haven’t thought of the story for a really long time. Morag: Go ahead. Andrew: The newspaper that I worked for sometimes would get contracted to deliver some extra advertisements for companies. So sometimes this would be a flyer, but sometimes it was something better, like a sample, a product sample. Morag: Ooh. Andrew: And so one time, they gave miniature boxes of cereal that we were supposed to deliver to each house. But my brother and I just kept all the cereal because nobody knew that they were going to get a free box of cereal that day. Morag: That is pretty beautiful. Andrew: So we got a lot of Frosted Flakes Expressions from this episode included in the Learning Materials: To go ahead with something Win/win To bring out the worst in someone To work out Audio/Learning Materials: Culips English Learning Podcast