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  • Hello. This is 6 Minute English

  • from BBC Learning English.

  • I'm Georgina.

  • And I'm Neil.

  • In this programme, we're going to be

  • talking about the world of work.

  • Ah yes, travelling to an office

  • five days a week, sitting at a desk

  • all day, and then going home.

  • Neil, it's not always like that.

  • Office work doesn't have to be such a

  • routine - the usual, fixed

  • way of doing things -

  • it is much more

  • flexible these days.

  • That's true. During the pandemic,

  • we've all had to have

  • a more flexible approach to work.

  • Yes, we have.

  • And it has, perhaps, changed our attitude

  • to working flexibly.

  • But even before coronavirus there was an

  • opportunity to work flexibly,

  • and we'll be discussing that soon.

  • But there's one thing that

  • can't be changed and that's you

  • setting a quiz question!

  • Ah yes, I hadn't forgotten.

  • So, Neil, I know you work very hard.

  • But according to data from

  • the Organization for Economic

  • Cooperation and Development -

  • the OECD -

  • workers from which country work

  • the longest hours?

  • Is it... a) South Korea,

  • b) Germany, or

  • c) Mexico?

  • Well, as I'm not on the list,

  • let's go for c) Mexico.

  • OK, Neil, we'll find out if that's right

  • at the end of the programme.

  • But let's talk more about

  • flexible working now.

  • Different countries have different laws

  • about working flexibly...

  • but here in the UK, for last 14 years,

  • employees - workers -

  • have had the right to request

  • flexible working.

  • But what does it mean to work flexibly?

  • Sarah Jackson is a workplace

  • consultant and visiting professor at

  • Cranfield University School of Management.

  • She spoke to BBC Radio 4's

  • Woman's Hour programme

  • about what it means exactly...

  • Because of the pandemic, now

  • everybody thinks flexible working

  • means working from home -

  • it doesn't, it's about common sense,

  • what does the job need in terms of

  • when where, how long,

  • and what do you need and

  • what does your family - need  

  • and how do the two match?

  • So, flexibility really means

  • having some choice and control

  • over when, where and how

  • long you work, and agreeing

  • that with your manager.

  • So, flexible working is not just

  • working from home -

  • something we've got used to 

  • during the pandemic.

  • It is about common sense - using our

  • judgment to make sensible decisions.

  • So, requesting to work for two  

  • hours a day is not sensible -

  • but being able to work

  • from 12 until 8 instead of 9 to 5  

  • might be

  • Of course, this depends on the needs of

  • the business

  • And as Sarah said, you need to match

  • your needs with that of the business.

  • Match here means to work

  • equally on both sides.

  • Getting the working conditions

  • that suit you does require  

  • some negotiation with your manager.

  • You need agreement from him or her -

  • and that can be difficult if

  • your manager is inflexible -

  • not willing to change.  

  • But of course, in the UK at least,

  • an employee has a

  • right to request flexible working,

  • and this must  

  • be considered by the employer.

  • This law initially was just for parents

  • with a child younger than  

  • 6 years old

  • or a disabled child less than 18.

  • But since 2014,

  • everyone has the right to request 

  • flexible working.

  • And that includes men

  • Which is an important point, as

  • Sarah Jackson explains

  • Fewer men seem to have their requests

  • for flexible working accepted -

  • let's find out why.

  • Men, when they do ask,

  • are more likely to be turned down,

  • so there's a real bias there in the system  

  • and the most important thing

  • that needs to happen here, I think,

  • is for employers to

  • really actively start saying to their men,

  • 'we know you want to be active fathers' -

  • because there's a whole generation of young men

  • who do want to be active fathers -

  • 'please use the right to request  

  • flexible working', work flexibly if you can -

  • because until men are

  • enabled to be active fathers,

  • we won't get equality at home and we

  • certainly won't get equality in the workplace either.  

  • OK, so men are more likely to

  • have their request turned down - or rejected.

  • And Sarah says there is a

  • bias in the system - unfairness,

  • treating one group of people more

  • favorably than another.

  • And this is unfair because it can

  • prevent some men being active fathers -

  • actually being involved with childcare.

  • But having more active fathers can

  • lead to equality - or fairness - at

  • home and in the workplace

  • It sounds like something that

  • needs to be looked at.

  • But now, Neil,

  • let's get the answer to my question.

  • According to official data,

  • in which country do workers work

  • the longest hours?

  • And I said Mexico.

  • Which is correct, well done!

  • According to the OECD,

  • the average Mexican spends

  • 2,255 hours at work per year -

  • the equivalent of around 43 hours per week.  

  • Germans, on the other hand,

  • clock up the fewest hours.

  • Well, my working day is nearly over,

  • so let's just recap some of the vocabulary

  • we've discussed.

  • Starting with routine -

  • the usual, fixed way of doing things.

  • Common sense is our judgment to

  • make sensible decisions.

  • When you need something to match it

  • has to work equally on both sides.

  • And when someone is inflexible,

  • they are unwilling to change -

  • sometimes we say they won't budge!

  • Bias is unfairness, treating one

  • group of people more favorably than another.

  • And being active with something

  • means being involved with it.

  • Well, there's no flexibility in our 6 minutes  

  • so we're out of time.

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  • Bye for now.

  • Goodbye.

  • Hello. This is 6 Minute English

  • from BBC Learning English.

  • I'm Rob.

  • And I'm Sam.

  • Have you got a 'business brain', Sam?

  • Would you like to start your own business?

  • It sounds good, Rob.

  • I like the idea of being my own boss.

  • Well, that's the dream for many

  • millennials - the name given to the

  • current generation of young people

  • aged between 24 and 38.

  • Some of the millennial generation are

  • dissatisfied with the old ways of doing things,

  • for example how big business uses

  • data from social media and the negative

  • impact of companies on society

  • and the environment.

  • In today's programme, we'll look

  • at why millennials are so attracted

  • to starting their own businesses

  • and asking whether this really is

  • the way to make the world a better place.

  • And of coursewe'll be learning some new

  • vocabulary on the way.

  • But first, it's time for today's quiz question.

  • At 79 years old, Muhammad Yunus

  • is hardly a millennial but he's a hero

  • to many young business people.

  • In 2006 he won the Nobel Peace Prize,

  • but what for?

  • Was it for: a) offering microfinance

  • to low-income businesses,

  • b) starting the first business

  • to earn £1m in under a week,

  • or c) developing a progressive

  • model of taxation.

  • Hmmm, I know millennials

  • like starting businesses

  • so I'll say,

  • b) earning £1m in under a week.

  • OK. We'll find out later if you were right.

  • Now, whether it's TV shows like

  • 'The Apprentice' or the big success of

  • companies in California's Silicon Valley,

  • the last decade saw a huge growth

  • in 20 and 30-year-olds starting their

  • own businesses.

  • BBC World Service programme

  • The Why Factor asked business professor,

  • Ethan Mollick to explain how

  • this situation came about...

  • There's all these platforms that let you

  • build entrepreneurial ventures

  • much more easily.

  • The growth of things like crowdfunding

  • have helped make entrepreneurship

  • more accessible and led to tons of

  • new start-ups.

  • So there's a lot of new methods

  • for launching businesses and the cost of

  • launching new businesses dropped at

  • the same time.

  • Ethan lists some of the reasons why it's

  • now easier to become an entrepreneur -

  • someone who starts their own business,

  • often after seeing a new opportunity.

  • Entrepreneurs see opportunities for

  • products and services not being supplied by

  • existing companies, so they create

  • start-ups newly formed businesses

  • intended to grow rapidly by

  • providing for a particular market gap.

  • One of the main problems to starting

  • up your own business

  • used to be getting the large

  • amounts of money needed,

  • but nowadays this can be solved

  • with crowdfunding -

  • getting the funding for a new business

  • by asking a large number of people to

  • give small amounts of money,

  • usually via the internet.

  • But while start-up success stories

  • have made going into business

  • good option, for many millennials

  • it's not just about making money but also about

  • being socially responsible and doing good.

  • However, others argue that most big changes

  • for the better have come from governments

  • not millennial businesses.

  • Here, former World Bank economist, Charles Kenny,

  • cautions against over-emphasizing

  • individual business over governments...

  • If you are working in a place with a corrupt and

  • inefficient government, one of the best ways you

  • can push development in your country is to

  • try and make that problem a little bit better.

  • It's not something that any one individual

  • can do, it has to be a collective effort,

  • but the more we have young,

  • committed, smart people who want to make

  • the world a better place working in government,

  • the more likely government is

  • to start delivering the kind of services

  • we need in order to ensure a high quality of life

  • in that country.

  • So, Charles mentions the problem

  • that governments can be corrupt -

  • act in morally wrong or illegal ways,

  • often in return for money or power.

  • The talent and passion that millennials

  • put into starting their own business

  • could instead be used to improve governments

  • through collective effort -

  • a group of people acting together

  • to achieve a common goal.

  • It's this working together that can raise

  • people's quality of life -

  • level of personal satisfaction and comfort.

  • Something that Muhammad Yunus was doing.

  • Ah yes, that's today's quiz question.

  • I asked you why Muhammad Yunus

  • won the Nobel Prize in 2006.

  • I said that, b) he started

  • the first business to earn £1m

  • in underweek.

  • But in fact it was a) offering

  • microfinance to low-income businesses -

  • a way for anyone, rich or poor,

  • to run a business in a positive way.

  • Today, we've been talking about

  • why young people in the millennial generation

  • want to be entrepreneurs -

  • people who start their own business.

  • Many millennials create start-ups -

  • newly formed businesses intended to grow

  • rapidly using a method called crowdfunding -

  • getting the funding for their new business

  • by asking large numbers of people

  • on the internet to each

  • give a little bit of money.

  • But it's not only about making profits.

  • Millennial start-ups can help solve

  • many of the developing world's problems,

  • instead of governments which may be corrupt -

  • acting immorally or illegally

  • for money or power.

  • What's needed more than individual

  • businessmen and women is collective effort -

  • a group of people acting together

  • to achievecommon goal.

  • And one important goal is

  • to improve the quality of life -

  • the level of satisfaction

  • and comfort that a person or group enjoys.

  • That's all from us today.

  • But remember to join us again soon

  • for more topical discussion

  • and vocabulary.

  • Bye for now!

  • Bye!

  • Hello and welcome to

  • 6 Minute English. I'm Neil.

  • And I'm Sam.

  • Now Sam, how would you define eSports?

  • eSports? Well this is essentially

  • competitive video gaming.

  • Individuals and teams take part in competitions

  • where they play video games.

  • So just like me and my kids

  • at the weekend?

  • Well, no! eSports is enormous

  • tens of thousands of people turn up to

  • watch these events.

  • The players are professional and get paid

  • huge salaries - the best ones are millionaires.

  • Well, maybe i'm not quite in that league yet!

  • But the business of eSports is our

  • topic for this programme.

  • Before we press 'play' on the subject

  • though, a question.

  • Approximately how much was generated

  • by eSports and video games in the last year?

  • Was it... a) $130 million?

  • b) $13 billion?

  • or, c) $130 billion?

  • What do you think then Sam?

  • I'm going to say $130 billion.

  • It's a huge amount, but I think it's that

  • successful at the moment.

  • OK, we'll find out if you're right

  • at the end of the programme.

  • Not so long ago the idea of

  • making a living playing computer games

  • would have seemed impossible.

  • Howevertimes have changed as technology

  • has improved.

  • eSports are even going to be included in

  • the 2022 Asian Games.

  • So it might not be long before they

  • make an appearance at the Olympics.

  • Gabriël Rau is a pro-eSportsman.

  • He was interviewed for the BBC

  • programme In Business.

  • He thinks eSports are going to grow

  • and grow, but does he think that's

  • a bad thing?

  • It's becoming more of a normal

  • sports thing with this generation

  • about to have children and moving forward

  • I feel like it might even become a staple.

  • Might become as normal as sports

  • are right now.

  • I don't think it

  • necessarily has to be a bad thing.

  • it is time-consuming though,

  • so I feel like, if you do want to

  • introduce anybody, especially children,

  • in the video games, discipline

  • is the way to go.

  • So is the growth of eSports a bad thing?

  • Not, according to Gabriël.

  • He thinks that people having children

  • now have grown up with computer games

  • and these are beginning to be seen

  • in the same way as traditional sports.

  • In fact, he thinks they will become a staple.

  • And what does he mean by that?

  • Something that is a staple is a

  • basic element, something we expect.

  • For example, in the UK

  • we talk about potatoes

  • being a staple food

  • and football being a staple of the

  • school curriculum.

  • But he does mention a disadvantage,

  • doesn't he?

  • Yes. He speaks quite quickly

  • but he says that it is time-consuming.

  • It eats up a lot of time!

  • Oh yes, I know that from my

  • own experience.

  • I can start playing a game and then

  • find that many hours have passed

  • and it's the middle of the night.

  • And that's why Gabriël goes on to

  • talk about the need for discipline.

  • This is having strict controls

  • and restrictions and importantly

  • sticking to them.

  • So, for example if you say

  • you're only going to play for an hour

  • every day, you have to stop playing

  • after an houreven if you want to carry on.

  • That's discipline.

  • And he makes the point that

  • this is important if you're introducing

  • children to video games.

  • Not everyone involved in eSports

  • wants to beplayer.

  • It's now possible to study the

  • business of eSports university

  • where you can learn how to

  • manage eSports events.

  • These are the thoughts of a student

  • on one of those courses talking about

  • her response to seeing a big eSports event.

  • When you look at the background of

  • how it all comes together

  • and the the people that spend

  • all that time getting into it,

  • for me I would love to put something

  • like that together, not so much

  • play it but to put that together

  • and create that

  • experience for other people

  • and that was just my main

  • aspiration really.

  • So she doesn't want to play does she?

  • No she doesn't.

  • She seems more interested in

  • putting together an event,

  • which means setting up

  • and managing an event for others

  • to take part in.

  • That she said, was her aspiration,

  • her ambition.

  • Right, before we review the vocabulary,

  • let's have the answer to our quiz question.

  • Approximately how much was generated

  • by eSports and video games in the last year?

  • a) $130 million?

  • b) $13 billion? or c) $130 billion?

  • What did you say, Sam?

  • I thought $130 billion.

  • And, for once, you're right so

  • well done.

  • The actual figure was approximately

  • $137 billion, which is more than the

  • music industry when you include music

  • sales and concerts.

  • Right on now to remind ourselves of

  • some words and phrases

  • from today's programme.

  • Yes, we've been looking at eSports,

  • the world of competitive video gaming.

  • We heard that it was becoming so normal

  • that it might become a staple,

  • an expected basic activity in the

  • same way sports like football are.

  • But be warned,

  • playing video games is very

  • time-consuming.

  • It eats up a lot of time.

  • So you need to have discipline.

  • That means you need to have

  • and keep to restrictions such as the

  • length of time you play or the

  • time of day you play.

  • That is particularly important for children.

  • If you organize an event,

  • you can say that you put it together.

  • And your ambition, your hope for the future

  • is an aspiration.

  • And my aspiration is to beat my

  • high score on my favourite game,

  • so are we done now, Neil?

  • Yes, it's game over for today.

  • We'll see you again soon and don't

  • forget to look out for more from the BBC

  • Learning English team online,

  • on social media and on our app.

  • Bye for now.

  • Bye everyone!

  • Hello. This is 6 Minute English

  • from BBC Learning English.

  • I'm Neil.

  • And I'm Georgina.

  • If you've ever done shopping

  • online, then you may well have

  • used the internet giant, Amazon.

  • From its origins as an online bookstore,

  • Amazon has grown into grocery deliveries,

  • TV and music streaming and

  • even space explorationmaking its founder,

  • Jeff Bezos, the richest person on earth.

  • Amazon is so successful it affects

  • how many of us live our lives,

  • so in this program we'll be taking a look

  • inside the brain of Jeff Bezos

  • to find out how he thinks.

  • When Jeff Bezos's friends talk about him,

  • three words they often use are:

  • invention, risk-taking

  • and long-term vision.

  • These are qualities which Bezos

  • admired in his grandfather, Lawrence,

  • who from an early age taught

  • Jeff that by careful thinking,

  • any problem can be solved.

  • As a boy, Jeff and his grandfather

  • repaired an old broken down truck.

  • When interviewed today,

  • Bezos sometimes compares Amazon

  • to that truck:

  • very heavy, but impossible to

  • stop when it rolls downhill -

  • which is exactly what accidentally

  • happened one day!

  • But do you know how the story ends, Georgina?

  • That's my quiz question.

  • What happened when the young

  • Jeff Bezos's car accidentally rolled downhill?

  • Was it: a) Jeff jumped in and

  • pulled the handbrake?

  • b) Jeff's grandad lost a thumb?

  • or, c) Jeff's hair fell out?

  • Well, Jeff Bezos is bald so maybe

  • it's c) his hair fell out.

  • OK, Georgina.

  • We'll find out later.

  • As a company, Amazon has been

  • remarkably strongit survived the

  • dot com crash of 2000

  • and saw profits jump during the Covid

  • pandemic as more and more people

  • started shopping online.

  • Retail analyst, Natalie Berg,

  • thinks Amazon's success is due

  • to its customer strategy

  • as she explains to BBC

  • Radio 4 programme, 'Seriously':

  • Jeff Bezos applied this concept

  • to Amazon by relentlessly focusing on

  • customers, by putting them at the

  • heart of the business - that that

  • would attract more customers,

  • more traffic to its site

  • which would in turn attract more sellers,

  • which would mean a greater selection

  • for customers, which again

  • would enhance the customer experience.

  • Natalie thinks that Amazon put

  • customers at the heart of their business -

  • in other words, they make customers

  • the most important part.

  • This improves Amazon's customer

  • experience - a customer's total perception

  • of their experience with a business,

  • including such things as the quality of

  • service and support if something goes wrong.

  • Customers can write reviews on

  • Amazon's website and happy customers

  • means more web traffic -

  • the number of people visiting

  • a particular website.

  • In the difficult years following the

  • dot com crash, Jeff Bezos started

  • Market Place where other sellers compete

  • with Amazon's own products.

  • More sellers brought more customers

  • which in turn brought down prices.

  • Then in 2013, Bezos bought The

  • Washington Post.

  • And in 2019 he launched his

  • space exploration company, Blue Origin,

  • to explore mineral resources on Mars.

  • Most recently, Jeff Bezos

  • has set his sights on even bigger

  • things - saving the future of the planet!

  • Bezos chose Tom Rivet-Carnac

  • of the environmental group, Global Optimism,

  • to help Amazon meet climate initiative

  • goals aimed at slowing climate change.

  • Here is Tom Rivet-Carnac

  • telling David Baker, presenter of BBC

  • Radio 4's Seriouslyabout

  • his conversation with Jeff Bezos:

  • It did seem to me that it was a

  • legacy issue for him, that

  • he wanted to be on the right side of history.

  • And you don't think it's just

  • greenwashing in the end?

  • How do you define that?

  • I mean, would you define greenwashing

  • if you said somebody got into this issue

  • because they wanted to improve

  • a reputation of a company or an individual?

  • Actually, that's fine. Right?

  • As long as they do something

  • meaningful and deliver a major outcome.

  • Protecting the planet is what

  • Jeff Bezos wants to be part

  • of his legacy - the achievements of his

  • life that will continue after he dies.

  • In other words, Bezos wants to be

  • on the right side of history -

  • judged to have acted correctly

  • or morally by future generations.

  • Ultimately though, it's real

  • action on climate change

  • that counts, not just greenwashing.

  • Do you know this new expression, Georgina?

  • Well, I know that whitewashing

  • means trying to hide the truth

  • about something.

  • Right - so greenwashing means

  • trying to make people believe that

  • your company is doing more to protect

  • the environment than it really is.

  • Well, with so many achievements

  • already behind him, I'm sure

  • Jeff has made his grandparents

  • very proud - which reminds me of

  • your quiz question, Neil.

  • Ah yes, I asked Georgina

  • what happened when the car

  • Jeff Bezos and his grandad, Lawrence were

  • fixing accidentally rolled downhill.

  • I thought it was c)

  • that Jeff lost all his hair.

  • Was I right?

  • No, you were wrong, I'm

  • afraid Georgina.

  • The correct answer was that b) -

  • his grandfather lost his thumb.

  • Ok, Neil

  • let's recap the vocabulary,

  • starting with customer experience -

  • a customer's feelings about their

  • experience with a business.

  • If you put something at the heart of

  • things, you make it the most important part.

  • Web traffic is the number of people

  • visiting a website.

  • Your legacy means all your life

  • achievements that will continue after

  • your death.

  • Someone who is on the right side

  • of history will be judged positively

  • by future generations.

  • And finally, greenwashing is when you

  • pretend that your company

  • is doing more to protect

  • the environment than it really is.

  • That's all for our peek

  • inside the brain of the world's richest man.

  • Join us again next time

  • when we'll be discussing another

  • trending topic. Bye for now!

  • Goodbye!

  • Hello and welcome to

  • 6 Minute English. I'm Neil.

  • This is programme where in just

  • six minutes we discuss an interesting topic

  • and teach some related English vocabulary.

  • Joining me to do this is Rob.

  • Hello.

  • Now Rob, we know your main job

  • is to work here at BBC Learning English

  • but do you have a second job?

  • There's no time for two jobs

  • Neil, but if there was, I think I'd

  • take photographs and sell them.

  • I do love photography so i might as well make

  • some money from it.

  • Good thinking, Rob!

  • And having a second job,

  • particularly one that involves using your

  • skills and allows you to follow

  • your interests, is called a side hustle.

  • Yes, a side hustle.

  • It's something more and more of us are

  • involved with these days.

  • And that's what we'll be talking about

  • shortly.

  • Well, my side hustle should

  • be quiz master,

  • because i'm always asking questions

  • and today is no exception.

  • According to the employee ratings website

  • Glassdoor, which job is thought to be the

  • best to have in the UK this year?

  • Is it a) a software engineer,

  • b) a teacher, or,

  • c) an audit manager.

  • Hmm, well, I suspect b) a teacher.

  • Well, you'll just have to wait until

  • the end of the programme to find out.

  • But let's talk more about side

  • hustles - or a second job.

  • For some people having two

  • jobs is a necessity - a

  • way to make ends meet.

  • That means 'having just enough

  • money to pay for the things you

  • need'.

  • That's true but it now seems that

  • more people want to put their skills and

  • passions into practice to make

  • extra money.

  • According to research by Henley Business

  • School around one in four

  • workers run at least one side-hustle

  • businesshalf of which were started in

  • the past two years.

  • Those aged 25 to 34 are most likely

  • to be involved with 37%

  • thought to run a sideline of some kind.

  • A sideline also describes an extra

  • job you do alongside your main job.

  • BBC Radio 5 Live spoke to someone whose

  • side hustle was so satisfying

  • that it turned into her day job.

  • Here is Elspbeth Jackson,

  • founder of Ragged Life, to explain why:

  • It's a different environment entirely because

  • you're leaving essentially a very

  • regular wage that you'd get

  • the same amount in month after month,

  • you can put aside savings,

  • the same amount every month

  • and you have that certain amount of security.

  • But now I don't think I could go back

  • to one of these big companies because

  • you'd essentially be sacrificing the flexibility,

  • which is something I've become very

  • accustomed to now.

  • Things have worked out well for Elspeth.

  • But there were risks - for example,

  • leaving behind the security - the safety -

  • of a regular job and of course, a regular income.

  • Elspeth liked making rag rugs.

  • This has given her flexibility in her life

  • and returning to work at a big company would

  • be sacrificing that.

  • That means 'giving something up

  • or going without it'.

  • And for Elspeth, her side hustle

  • has become a full-time job

  • and she's become accustomed to

  • her lifestyle.

  • It's become familiar or normal.

  • The BBC also spoke to Becci Mae Ford,

  • who works some of the time

  • for a telecommunications company

  • to pay the bills, but spends the rest

  • of her time developing her own

  • crafting company Ellbie Co.

  • How did she find having two jobs?

  • I think it just gives me creative balance,

  • and obviously working for the telecoms firm,

  • it gets me out of the house

  • and gets me to meet people in a

  • social environment.

  • It can be difficult to juggle the

  • two though definitely.

  • It's definitely a grind.

  • It's a lot harder than people think

  • it's going to be.

  • So Becci implies that it's not

  • always easy to have a side hustle.

  • The benefit for her is the creative

  • balance - a good mix of doing

  • office-based work, regular tasks and

  • a routine with working creativelymaking

  • things and getting pleasure from it.

  • But juggling - or balancing these two

  • things is difficult and she described her

  • side hustle as sometimes being a

  • grind - hard work, tiring

  • and occasionally boring.

  • But overall, it does make her happy.

  • Now something that would make me

  • happy is to give you the answer to today's

  • quiz question.

  • Earlier I asked you, according

  • to the employee ratings website Glassdoor,

  • which job is thought to be the best

  • to have in the UK this year?

  • Is it... a) a software engineer,

  • b) a teacher, or, c) an audit manager?

  • Yes and I said b) a teacher -

  • always the best job in the world!

  • Sadly not, Rob.

  • Apparently, it is c) an audit manager

  • that is considered to be the best job to

  • have this year.

  • Audit managers are responsible

  • for organizing and overseeing internal audits.

  • The result was based on three factors:

  • average annual base salary,

  • the current number of job openings,

  • and job satisfaction, according

  • to ratings shared by employees on

  • the website over the past 12 months.

  • So sounds like an interesting job

  • for a side hustle, but

  • before I head off for a career change,

  • let's remind ourselves of the main vocabulary

  • we've discussed, starting with

  • to 'make ends meet'.

  • When we make ends meet we

  • have just enough money to pay for the

  • things we need.

  • Next, we mentioned a sideline,

  • which describes an extra job you do

  • alongside your main job.

  • Then we had sacrificing that means

  • giving up something important or

  • 'going without something'.

  • Accustomed is a word to mean

  • 'usual or normal'.

  • If you get accustomed to doing something,

  • it becomes the normal way of doing it -

  • it becomes familiar.

  • We also talked about the expression

  • 'creative balance'.

  • That describes getting the best mix of

  • doing creative and uncreative tasks.

  • And finally, 'grind' describes doing

  • something that is tiring, difficult,

  • sometimes boring and involves lots of effort.

  • Well this program has not been

  • a grind, Rob.

  • It's been six minutes of pleasure.

  • Don't forget you can learn more

  • English with us on our website

  • bbclearningenglish.com.

  • Bye for now.

  • Bye.

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