Working for yourself - 6 Minute English

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VOCABULARY IN “working for yourself” 1. Permanent: for a long time or forever 2. Pension: an amount of money paid regularly by the government or a private company to a person who does not work anymore because they are too old or have become ill 3. Agile: able to move your body quickly and easily 4. Solid: for some time without stopping 5. Role: the position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, or relationship 6. Petrifying: frightening, so you can’t speak or move 7. Creeping: happening, developing, or moving slowly or gradually 8. Self-sabotage: having doubts and fears that stop you from achieving something 9. Exaggerating: to make something seem more significant, more important, better, or worse than it really is 10. Persisted: If an unpleasant feeling or situation persists, it continues to exist 11. Fulfilment: a good feeling of achieving something for yourself 12. Hospitality: the act of being friendly and welcoming to guests and visitors 13. Rigid: stiff or fixed; not able to be bent or moved

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Transcript Note: This is not a word-for-word transcript Georgina Hello. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I’m Georgina. Rob And I’m Rob. Georgina Rob, what’s the best job you’ve ever had? Rob Err well, this one, of course! It’s very creative, with lots of variety. Georgina OK, any other reasons? Rob Well yes - it’s a permanent job - a staff job - with regular income and a pension. Georgina Yes, these things can be important, but have you ever been freelance - by that I mean, working for yourself and selling your skills and services to different businesses? Rob Well, I worked as a paperboy once - delivering newspapers. But not really - it’s a risky way to earn an income. Georgina It can be Rob. But many people choose to, or have to work as a freelancer to survive. And that’s what we’re talking about in this programme. But let’s start with a question for you, Rob. Rob OK. Georgina This is about job titles - back in the 19th Century, what kind of job was a drummer? Were they… a) someone who played the drums? b) a travelling salesman?, or, c) a music publicist - who drums up - meaning encourages, support for a band? Rob Well, it’s got to be someone who plays the drums - that’s my kind of job. Georgina OK, Rob, we’ll find out if that’s right at the end of the programme. But let’s talk more about work now. Long gone are the days of a job for life, where you spent your adult life working your way up the career ladder at the same company. Rob Yes, that’s right. We work in many different ways now because the needs of businesses change frequently and it needs to be agile - changing the size and type of work force in order to meet demand. Georgina So, people need to adapt and some choose to work for themselves, offering their skills to different businesses as and when they are needed. But it can also be a lifestyle choice, as we’re about to find out. Rob Yes, some people have chosen to become self-employed - working for themselves - but also, because of the recent coronavirus pandemic, some people have been forced into this situation. Let’s hear from Carla Barker, who set up her own business after giving up her regular job. She told BBC Radio 4’s programme You and Yours how she felt… Carla Barker You know the idea of giving up a solid, permanent, full-time, paid, comfortable, role is a bit petrifying… It is super-scary because … you then have that fear of ‘oh my goodness can we do this’? You also have things creeping in that say you know like self-sabotage - are you good enough to do this? Are people going to want to take me on as a business? Georgina So, Carla decided to go it alone - an informal way of saying work for herself. She described giving up a full-time job as petrifying - so frightening you can’t speak or move. She may have been exaggerating slightly but she also said it was ‘super-scary’! Rob I guess working for yourself must be scary as you’re solely responsible for your own success. It’s no surprise Carla had feelings of self-sabotage - having doubts and fears that stopped her achieving something. Georgina Luckily, she persisted and things went well. And many other people who have become self-employed or freelance have overcome the fear and discovered the benefits. Rob Like Fiona Thomas, who’s the author of a book called ‘Ditch the 9 to 5 and be your Own Boss’. She also spoke to the BBC’s You and Yours programme and explained why she gave up the 9 to 5 - the regular, full-time staff job - and how it helped her… Fiona Thomas, Author A kind of combination of wanting some creative fulfilment from a job, compared to the job that I was in before, which was very much customer based and working face-to-face in hospitality. But I also wanted the flexibility to accommodate my mental health because I suffer from depression and anxiety and I found working in a rigid schedule and being in front of a lot of people all the time really exacerbated a lot of my symptoms. And I also wanted the financial freedom to be able to, over time, increase my income without just having to wait on being promoted or getting a pay rise in traditional employment. Georgina So, working for herself gave Fiona a good feeling that she achieved something she wanted to do - it gave her creative fulfilment. It also meant she could work more flexibly and that helped her with her mental health because she didn’t have to follow a fixed rota of tasks. Rob And it gave her financial freedom - meaning the money she earned was not controlled by someone else, and she didn’t have to wait for someone else to give her a pay rise. Of course, that can be risky too. Georgina Let’s get back to my quiz question now, Rob. Earlier I asked you if you knew what job a drummer used to do back in the 19th Century? Rob And obviously, a drummer plays the drums! Georgina Well, you are sort of right but a drummer also used to be an informal way of describing a travelling salesperson - because their job was to drum up business for a company - meaning they tried to increase sales. Rob Ahh very interesting, although I know which drummer I would rather be - a freelance drummer in a rock band! Georgina And freelance is one of the words we’ve mentioned today. To freelance means to work for yourself, selling your skills or services to different businesses. Rob Becoming self-employed can be petrifying - frightening, so you can’t speak or move. And starting out on your own can lead to self-sabotage - having doubts and fears that stop you achieving something. Georgina But it can also give you fulfilment - a good feeling of achieving something for yourself. Rob And having financial freedom means being able to control how you earn and use your money. Georgina That’s it for this programme. We have plenty more 6 Minute English programmes to enjoy on our website at bbclearningenglish.com. And check us out on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Bye for now. Rob Goodbye.

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1. I try to drum up my product sales on e-commerce with ads. 2. I've been freelancing since 2016 when I was in uni. 3. The film petrified me a lot! I couldn't speak a lot during the show. 4. I sometime have feelings of self-sabotage when I cannot finish my works. However, I always managed to do them. 5. Writing stories gives me fulfilment of life. 6. When I am old later, I want to have financial freedom of myself.

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I think working for yourself is a good choice for introvert people. They can spend their time only for their job, it's unnecessary to spend a time talking to people. I've worked for myself at once. It helped me a lot. Nowadays, there are so many options to find a job like that. My sister worked for herself too. The advantage she had is whatever you are u can work everywhere. In my opinion working for yourself is a profession of this century

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My husband has been a contractor for the past three decades and he loves being self- employed.

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I'm self-employed and I can't agree that it's something petrifying. I was much more scared when I used to work for a company, cause people in power (different kinds of supervisors) could easily put the employees down, tell them off constantly, be dissatisfied with them without obvious reasons. Now I am responsible for what I am doing. I realize my mistakes if they are and I don't need anyone else to push me for them.

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I agree that working for yourself as a freelancer might be risky and it's also super-scary journey when you have to self-manage all things on your own and might have self-sabotage moment but you can have yourself a creative fulfillment and financial freedom, which will increase your income and improve your fulfillment life. I, like the girl having mental heath problem, see that working with a lot of judgemental people all the time is very execrated somehow so I would prefer a freelance job to have a better treatment

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Work for yourself is also known as freelancer. When you work this kind of job, you may face the risk of getting zero income, but this also gives you a chance to increase the salary without being promoted

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Drummer - use as a inform way of describing a traveling salesperson Freelancer - selling your skills and services to different businesses. Petrifying/frightening - to scare, can't speak or move Exaggerating : Exacerbate: Self-sabotage:

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