英语访谈对话 113 First Job

 　　Todd: OK, Roe 1, why don't we talk about your first job.

　　Roe: OKTodd: Yeah, tell us about your first job.
　　Roe: You mean my official full-time 2 first job, talking about!
　　Todd: Yeah, sure. How about that?
　　Roe: OK. That was right after graduating university. I became a salesman.
　　Todd: Oooh, salesman! Nice.
　　Roe: Yep, salesman.
　　Todd: What were you selling?
　　Roe: I was selling nothing.
　　Todd: NothingRoe: Nothing. Well, basically I was selling a membership. So, that's, it's not something people can see or visualize 3, but it's like just membership, so.
　　Todd: Was it like a membership to a country club?
　　Roe: Yeah, actually a private resorts and golf clubs.
　　Todd: Nice. Was this in Japan or in the US?
　　Roe: In Japan.
　　Todd: Wow. What was the best thing about your job?
　　Roe: Troubles! Cause I have to knock on people's houses.
　　Todd: Oh, wow, it was door to doorRoe: Exactly without any appointments and membership costs 5 million yen 4. Starting, starting costs.
　　Todd: 5 million yen to start and you must have been in very rich neighborhoods.
　　Roe: No, actually we just go to any areas. We just stop off at a station and we start from there.
　　Todd: Really. Were you successful?
　　Roe: It's a long story but to be honest with you, how many memberships do you think I sold in a year?
　　Todd: Wow, I don't know. I will take a guess. In one year, maybe one, two a week, so my guess is, I don't know, a hundred.
　　Roe: One!
　　Todd: One! One!
　　Roe: Can you believe it!
　　Todd: So you must, so you remember the lucky person? Probably still remember that personRoe: And you know what, the person who bought my membership, is who? My father.
　　Todd: Ooh, that's a tough job.
　　Roe: It was rough, really. It was really rough.
　　Todd: That's a lot of rejection 5, every day. No, no, noRoe: I know, I mean if you think about it, that's natural though, I mean 5 million yen. and I can't really show the place, cause I can't take the person to the place. all I can do is show the picture and speak and that was right after the bubble economy bursted, so nobody had really, nobody had money, so.
　　Todd: Wow, man so were you depressed 6? Were you sad?
　　Roe: It was very interesting. It was hard to motivate myself. The people would call the police, and call me like a robber Yeah, yeah, cause I had to like open the gate and run to the door and stick my leg so that they won't shut the door.
　　Todd: SeriouslyRoe: Yeah, that's how you do it. Door to door sells.
　　Todd: Wow, that's, that's a tough job. I don't think I could do a job, what's your job now? What do you do now?
　　Roe: I am, I work for Yokohama city and I am in a place called Yokohama Convention Bureau. It's a city job.
　　Todd: OK, so the Yokohama Convention Bureau. OK, so you deal with foreigners, naturally cause it's in English.
　　Roe: And travellers and visitors and what have you.
　　Todd: Do you like your job now?
　　Roe: Interesting! Like I said I meet talk to about over 2,000 people a day, so it's kind of tiring though.
　　Todd: Wow, 2,000 people a day.
　　Roe: About 200 people an hour. My office is at the station. Yokohama station. Right out of the gate of the JR, so people are going to stop by.
　　Todd: You, that's a lot of talking. You must be tired of talking.
　　Roe: I am tired.