📘 Part 3: Jobs and Salaries

This episode's vocabulary

Ingenuity (noun) - someone's ability to think of clever new ways of doing something.

A cashier (noun) - a person whose job is to receive and pay out money in a shop, bank, restaurant, etc.

Build the bonds (collocation) - build a close connection joining two or more people.

Be laid off/lay somebody off (phrasal verb) - to stop employing someone, usually because there is no work for them to do.

A cog (noun) - one of the tooth-like parts around the edge of a wheel in a machine that fits between those of a similar wheel, causing both wheels to move :

Algorithm /ˈæl.ɡə.rɪ.ðəm/ (noun) - a set of mathematical instructions or rules that, especially if given to a computer, will help to calculate an answer to a problem.

Biased (adj.) - showing an unreasonable like or dislike for a person based on personal opinions.

A boardroom (noun) - a room where the people who control a company or organization meet.

Manual labor/labour (collocation) - practical work, especially when it involves hard physical effort done with the hands

Vulnerable (adj.) - able to be easily physically, emotionally, or mentally hurt, influenced, or attacked.

Enterprise (noun) - an organization, especially a business, or a difficult and important plan, especially one that will earn money.

A barista (noun) - a person who serves customers in a coffee shop (= a small restaurant that serves coffee)

Entrepreneurial (adj.) /ˌɒn.trə.prəˈnɜː.ri.əl/  -  relating to someone who starts their own business or is good at seeing new opportunities to make money.

In a nutshell (idiom) - using as few words as possible.

To tailor smth to smth (verb) - to adjust something to suit a particular need or situation.

To wind up (phrasal verb) - to find yourself in an unexpected and usually unpleasant situation, especially as a result of what you do.

A dead-end job (collocation) - a job in which there is no chance of progressing to a better, more important job.

Alignment (noun) - an arrangement in which two or more things are positioned in a straight line or parallel to each other.

A plumber (noun) /ˈplʌm.ər/- a person whose job is to supply and connect or repair water pipes, baths, toilets, etc.

It would bore me to tears - it would make me feel extremely bored.

Job stability (collocation) - the fact of an employee, or a group of employees, being able to keep the same job for a long time.

Job satisfaction (collocation) - the feeling of pleasure and achievement that you experience in your job when you know that your work is worth doing, or the degree to which your work gives you this feeling.

Delegate responsibility to smb  (collocation) - to give responsibility to someone in a lower position instead of doing it yourself.

To equate (verb) - to consider as the same, or to connect in your mind.

An oil rig (a noun phrase) - a large structure with equipment for removing oil from under the ground, especially from under the sea.

Mining (noun) - the industry or activity of removing substances such as coal or metal from the ground by digging.

A trade (noun) - the activity of buying and selling, or exchanging, goods and/or services between people or countries.