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English now back to the lesson let's start with a couple of words we use to talk about jobs in
general the words mean about the same thing as job occupation and profession your occupation
or profession is what job you have I follow the profession of teaching from the word profession
we get an adjective professional which means something connected with a profession or in a
more general sense professional means behavior which is competent reliable and respectful in
my professional opinion as a doctor I think you should get your injury treated right away our next
word is commute which means the travel you have to make between where you live and where you work my
morning commute takes about 30 minutes that means it takes 30 minutes to get from my home to my work
place from this word we also get the noun commuter which means people who have to travel to work most
of the time people are commuters because they don't usually live and work in the same building
the next word is shift a shift is a period of time in which people are scheduled to work in
the United States the traditional first shift is sometimes called a nine-to-five shift because
people often were scheduled to work from 9:00 in the morning until 5:00 in the afternoon so you can
call that a nine-to-five shift or first shift the second shift or swing shift within run from about
4:00 or 5:00 in the afternoon until midnight and then the third shift sometimes called the
graveyard shift because it's at night when it's dark outside that runs from midnight to 8:00
a.m. if you work longer than your shift meaning longer than you were scheduled to work we call
that overtime overtime is when you work more hours than you were scheduled to work in some countries
and in certain situations people who work overtime might get paid extra money for their extra hours
for example at one job I got time and a half pay for any overtime meaning for each overtime hour
that I worked I was paid as if I had worked for an hour and a half not bad huh once you've worked in
a job for a while you might want to make more money when your employer increases the amount
they pay you this is called getting a raise or in British style English it could be called a
rise I got a raise this year or I got a rise in salary they are paying me an extra $300 a month
now that's a good raise what kind of job do you have do you have a full-time job do you have a
part-time job a full-time job is a job in which the employee works a minimum number of hours that
number is set by the employer for example many jobs in the u.s. define a full-time job as one
in which the employee works 36 to 40 hours each week a part-time job is a job in which the does
not have to work a minimum of hours so someone who works a nine-to-five shift each week as an office
worker that's a full-time job someone who works two days a week as a waiter in a restaurant has a
part-time job sometimes there are big differences between a full-time job and a part-time job for
example someone with a full-time job is usually paid a set salary which is the same no matter how
many hours they work unless sometimes if they work overtime someone with a part-time job is
usually paid an hourly salary or hourly wage so they can make more money the more hours they work
so let's review your occupation or profession is the kind of job you have your commute is your trip
from home to work and then back again after work is over the shift is the time in which you are
scheduled to work and if you work longer than your shift you are working overtime if you're
good at your job and stay long enough you might get a raise or rise which is an increase in your
salary and the job you work is usually either full time or part-time depending on how many hours you
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