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in London baby and err our next
episode is gunna be talking about
what people do for a living and why they
do it. W e thought best place to do it
near Big Ben and Westminster Abbey.
Here we go.
Nice to meet you I'm harry nice to meet you
have a great day, nice to meet you Paul
Umm right, so Paul, what is your job?
what is my job? Umm well look my job is a stilt walker
but I'm currently contracted for
Great British fish n chips umm to hand out flyers at the moment
to hand out flyers at the moment
Okay and why did you
choose this job. Err I didn't actually choose it
I have a website called stilts and
statues. Umm emailed me, come through if you
need a living statue or a stilt
walker to promote your business or
anything like that I'm more than welcome
to come along
obviously for the right price.
So Martin
What do you do for work?
I'm a civil servant
A civil servant. And what does that involve
Umm I have to be careful what I say actually so I work in an office
okay and do you like this job?
I do at the moment.
How long have you been doing this job?
Err, 19 years
I'm just wondering, what do you do for a living Chris?
So when people ask me what I do
for a living
I never quite know what to say.
Interesting, I feel you.
because
even people who work with me don't quite know
how to describe me. Ahh, right.
So I
I went to university for seven years. I have a PhD.
I run my own company and
well I do whatever is necessary.
So if a bit of software needs writing
I write a bit of software.
It's a technology company so I kind of I'm a
mad engineering kind of person who just
likes making things and pulling things apart.
and pulling things apart and and just
understanding how the world works and
fortunately I've been lucky enough to
make a living out of it
that's amazing
What is your job Mike?
Err I'm a solicitor.
Okay and why did you choose this job?
err because I find the Law really
interesting and I can help people to solve
their problems through using my brain
which is nice
we've got two lovely ladies here and we
want to ask what did you do as a career
or a job when when you were a little bit younger?
When you were a little bit younger?
Well she's still working full-time
Well she's still working full-time but I was
a tour manager. I took groups abroad
ok and so where did you where did you take them?
All over the world
yes but I enjoyed mostly taking Brits to Canada
ok why why did you enjoy taking Brits to Canada
well I'm I'm dual nation...
I've got dual nationality.
so umm as I live in Britain
I like to take [Canadian] er British people
over to show them the country where I
was born and brought up
...where I was born and brought up.
and the treasures we have over there
mostly umm the landscape and the history
of canada yeah thank you very much and
say coming back to you
you still work I'm 84 years old I still
work eight to ten hours a day
and I travel all over the world and I love travelling
my father was born and lived on Regent Street
here in London. Went to Canada
when he was 15 years old to farm and of
course I was born in Canada and that's
my country but I have very deep roots here
but I have very deep roots here
my goodness
So just taking a moment to err analyse the questions.
We're saying.
What do you do?
A lot of the time. The word 'do'
being the career or the job that they
are 'doing' so when you hear that question
what do you do? Remember it's talking
about their career or their job.