EF p 12. 25 Jobs Before She Was 25. Cloze

Emma Rosen had one of the best, (1)___________ sought-after graduate jobs in the country, in the civil service. 20,000 people apply, but (2)____________ than 1,000 are offered jobs. But it turned (3)___________ that she didn’t like commuting and she didn’t like sitting (4)___________ a desk all day, and she struggled to see how (5)____________ she was doing would make much difference to anything. ‘I thought, ‘Get (6)_____________ it, you’re being a snowflake millennial,’’ she says. ‘I had a job for life. I thought, ‘I’m so lucky to be here, I can’t believe I’m not enjoying it. What’s wrong with me? (7)___________ am I so ungrateful and selfish?’’ 

Emma (8)_____________ have gone to work every day and complained (9)________________ her job (10)__________________ she reached retirement age. (11)_____________, she decided to find out what made her happy, what her skills were, and what sort of career (12)____________ use them. She wrote a bucket (13)_____________ of the jobs she had wanted to do (14)____________ childhood and set (15)_____________ getting two-week placements in all of them, over the course of a year. She was 24 years old, and before her 25th birthday she wanted to have tried out at (16)______________ 25 different jobs. She spent the months before she resigned from the civil service saving up her salary to cover the cost of her year off, and spent all her free time setting (17)____________ the different jobs. 

‘There was archaeology in Transylvania, property development for a company in London, alpaca farming in Cornwall, wedding photography, travel writing, interior design, journalism, landscape gardening, marketing, TV production, publishing – all things that I thought I (18)____________ want to do.’

KEY

1. most

2. fewer

3. out

4. at

5. what

6. over

7. Why

8. could

9. about

10. until

11. Instead

12. would

13. list

14. since

15. about

16. least

17. up

set up: organise

E.g.

Can we set up a meeting for 8 November?

18. might