Intro
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For most people around the world, work is an unavoidable part of life. And although most of us would love not to work if we didn’t have to, some jobs are easier to stand than others. When a job doesn’t feel like work at all, when it is something you love to do and would keep doing even if you weren’t getting paid for it, it is a dream job.
On the Ebaby! soap opera, Mason already has his dream job, as a janitor. Hear him chat with Dale about his real-life dream job.
Dialog
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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Mason: So Dale, my office just moved downtown, which has been a huge improvement over having to drive out to the suburbs every morning. So I’m feeling pretty good about the old job situation these days. How’s your work going?
Dale: You know, about a year and a half ago, I just got what I consider my dream job. And it has nothing to do about money. It has nothing to do about fame. The dream job is to do things that for me is creative release. Sometimes it’s with an artist, and I consider that a dream job. For me, when a dream job comes along like that, somehow everything, the speed of the job…it’s not really a job, it’s like playing.
Mason: It’s satisfaction, right? That’s the dream job factor.
Dale: It’s complete satisfaction.
Mason: If money wasn’t an object, and that’s sort of the whole dream job factor, I’m one of those homey people, I would love to own a movie theater or something, a place that’s more of a community hub, and just get to have that sort of established feeling. But that’s part what I like, the idea of satisfaction from a job. The other part is what I do now, which is that creative release and spontaneity and back and forth and energy with everybody. So we’ll see. When I retire, then I get the movie theater.
Dale: There you go.
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Discussion
Mason’s job recently moved into a new office in the center of the city where he lives. Now he enjoys his job even more than before, because he likes his new workspace. Overall, he is pretty happy with his job, which gives him a chance to be creative.
Dale loves his job. He also gets to be creative at work. For him, when a job is satisfying and fun, it is a dream job. It doesn’t matter how much the job pays him or how much status and respect it brings him.
Even though Mason likes his current job a lot, his dream job is a little different. He would like to own a movie theater or some other place where people in the community could hang out. He would like to have a job that felt more like hanging out at home than going to work.
What is your dream job? Do you like the work you do now?
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