Make sure to sound both enthusiastic and sarcastic when needed. =)
Your tone of voice will also help my students understand this text.
Thanks.
I don’t know how other people manage their careers, I really don’t. Like my oldest friend, Lissy. She’s always known she wanted to be a lawyer – and now, ta-dah ! She’s a fraud barrister. But I left college with absolutely no clue.
My first job was in estate agency, and I only went into it because I’ve always quite liked looking round houses, plus I met this woman [...] who told me she made so much money, she’d be able to retire when she was forty.
But the minute I started, I hated it. I hated all the other trainee estate agents. I hated saying things like “That's a lovely aspect for a house” [or] “You only have £300,000?" ... God, you complete loser...
So after six months I announced I was changing career and was going to be a photographer instead. It was such a fantastic moment, like in a film or something. My dad lent me the money for a photography course and a camera. I was going to launch this amazing new creative career, and it was going to be the start of my new life...
Except it didn’t quite happen like that. I mean [...], do you have any idea how much a photographer’s assistant gets paid?
Nothing.
It’s nothing.
Which, you know, I wouldn’t have minded if anyone had actually offered me a photographer’s assistant’s job...
