Tracy works on the production line of a factory which makes cars. She uses a machine to spray paint on to the finished car parts.
Marie works in the finance department of an international college in Oxford.
Jane works for herself. She is a photographer. She works every day for about eight or nine hours.
Jeanette is a cleaner for a company in Birmingham, but she only works there for about three or four hours a day.
Claire has a powerful job in the personnel office of a large multinational company. She is responsible for employing new people and getting rid of those that the company doesn’t want to employ any more.
Samantha is the assistant manager of a bank and she works from 8.30 to 5.30 every day.
She is responsible for hiring and firing.
She calculates the wages, salaries, pension contributions and medical insurance contributions of all the staff.
She is self-employed and works full-time. She likes to describe herself as freelance.
She is an unskilled part-time employee.
She is a full-time white-collar worker in a service industry.
She is a semi-skilled blue-collar worker in a manufacturing industry.