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Dream Job
Dream Job

Learn the second conditional

Date: Dec 03 2010

Themes: Work

Grammar: Second Conditional

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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.

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Mason

Mason

Dale

Dale

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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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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john

johnSuper Member!

United States

 

my dream job is to be an ice cream taster.

06:02 PM Dec 03 2010 |

MUHAMMAD92

MUHAMMAD92

Saudi Arabia

my dream job to be judge

04:30 PM Dec 03 2010 |

andee1

andee1

China

truly speaking. my dream job was to be a scientist when i was small. but now my dream job is to be a personal boss to have own company and career and make many money. because wealthy people can do anything in china. as for my current job. i hate it very much, because it  pays me fewer moreover it makes me feel so bored.

03:49 PM Dec 03 2010 |

franci.montini

Italy

My dream job is to save people , to support everyone who needs help!

03:22 PM Dec 03 2010 |

spacedragon

Brazil

jobs r always nightmares loooooooooooool

02:40 PM Dec 03 2010 |

Winchester_07

Brazil

Well, I don't work yet but I'd like to be a Game Designer. Yeah, that's definitely my dream job! I always like stuff like creating characters, writting scripts, developing stories… It's like to create your own world and then share it with other people, show them your work, your ideas.

Unfortunately, I don't have enough money to pay this course. Maybe one day, who knows?

Even I don't get my dream job, I don't want to work just for money ;/

12:09 PM Dec 03 2010 |

joyce720118

China

Having  a  dream  job  is  my  happy  things  .  but  so  far that  i  has  not  find  it  .  i  donot  konw  what's  my  dreamging  jog .  

12:06 PM Dec 03 2010 |

reiny kwan

reiny kwan

Indonesia

don't sure about my dream job, but now i work as travel agent..

maybe my dream is travel around the world..

one day… 

06:26 AM Dec 03 2010 |

big head

big head

China

Well,I didn't like my current job a bit,but also I didn't hate it.My dream job is relating with English such as a foreign company or an English teacher etc.I'm who have two roles to play on daily and night was white-collar and an English major. 

04:10 AM Dec 03 2010 |

Elly Fa

China

a writer,my dream job is writrer…

02:36 AM Dec 03 2010 |

liu_liu

liu_liu

China

my dream job ..mmm ,like art.fashion desiger..can make me feel beautiful things around me

02:01 AM Dec 03 2010 |

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