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Speaker 1: Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast. Do

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Speaker 1: you love your job? If you love what you do,

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Speaker 1: we'd love to hear about it. Come onr in Tracy.

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Speaker 2: Hi, guys, here you going.

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Speaker 1: We're good, Tracy. So, Tracy, what do you do?

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Speaker 2: I'm a food technology assistant at a high school.

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Speaker 1: So you're a chef.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm just an assistant to the teachers who teach

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Speaker 2: the students how to cook. I get stuff ready for

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Speaker 2: the teachers in the mornings and help do shopping and

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Speaker 2: then prep it all, get it ready for the kids,

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Speaker 2: and they come in and they do their cook and

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Speaker 2: we get to sorry, I get all emotional. We help

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Speaker 2: them with their cook and how to learn. You know,

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Speaker 2: they learn so so much from the teachers, and it's

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Speaker 2: just so beautiful to watch them when they come in,

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Speaker 2: because some of them are quite hesitant to cook and

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Speaker 2: they're like, you know, I'm a bit nervous, I'm stared

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Speaker 2: at the fire, blah blah blah. And you get to

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Speaker 2: help them and you see them achieve, and at the

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Speaker 2: end of the day they all go home so proud

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Speaker 2: of themselves. Just sorry, really really love it, Like I

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Speaker 2: feel like this job came to me just at the

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Speaker 2: right time in my life as well. And I've got

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Speaker 2: a beautiful work wife, so I do. We work together

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Speaker 2: every day, and I work with an incredible team of

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Speaker 2: ladies who just are mind blowing. They embraced me as

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Speaker 2: part of their own and I just love coming here

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Speaker 2: and doing this every single day. I'm never like I

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Speaker 2: don't want to go to work.

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Speaker 1: This is so lovely to hear and then tell me this,

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Speaker 1: what is it? What does it actually mean to you?

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Speaker 1: What's the emotional about? What the tears? I'm dying to know.

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Speaker 1: It's a lovely So I feel like there needs to

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Speaker 1: be a documentary that we can all see what goes

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Speaker 1: on there. It's an amazing place.

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Speaker 2: It just it is. It's seeing the kids and working

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Speaker 2: with them one on one. I just mean, I love

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Speaker 2: kids anyway, but being around them and seeing them have

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Speaker 2: so much fun and learn and know that they can

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Speaker 2: do this and walk away from here going I can

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Speaker 2: actually do that, and coming back the next week and

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Speaker 2: going I really enjoyed doing that. Miss you know, It's

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Speaker 2: just oh, it's just mind blowing. It really is. I've

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Speaker 2: had some really crappy jobs all my time, and.

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Speaker 1: What we did beforehand. You said that this came if

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Speaker 1: you don't want me asking you so think it came

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Speaker 1: at the right time in your life. Was that I

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Speaker 1: needed a job that you didn't enjoy beforehand.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, it wasn't the greatest. I was delivering sanitary

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Speaker 2: things to schools and hospitals and places, which isn't the

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Speaker 2: most pleasant job in the world. And when I was

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Speaker 2: out of work for about six months and then a

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Speaker 2: friend of mine called me and said, my sister's got

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Speaker 2: a position available. Do you want to have a goal?

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Speaker 2: And I've said, oh, I've never done anything like that.

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Speaker 2: And I've just learned so much since I came here.

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Speaker 2: I've learnt so much about people, about food, about skills

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Speaker 2: I didn't know I had. So it's just been it's

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Speaker 2: just been beautiful. Sorry, I'm really emotional about that.

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Speaker 1: It's a joint. This is what we do the future.

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Speaker 1: It's a joint to hear and actually, do you know

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Speaker 1: what if we're lucky in life, you know, because we

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Speaker 1: spend so much our time at work, not everyone can

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Speaker 1: have what you've got. But there's something just so magical

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Speaker 1: about it when you hear about it, Tracey, just work.

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Speaker 1: If we're lucky can really actually bring us alive and

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Speaker 1: not be just something we do for the other part

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Speaker 1: of our life. And that's what you're living true to that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is like I always wish everyone could

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Speaker 2: be this happy when they come to work.

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Speaker 1: I love hearing about this, And bless all the team

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Speaker 1: there that it took you in example, because it sounds

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Speaker 1: like it's a very tight knit unit, all of you,

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Speaker 1: and it must be quite hard when you go into

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Speaker 1: that and you're not one of them, but they obviously

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Speaker 1: took you on and integrated you quickly that.

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Speaker 2: Even I just feel like it really took me into

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Speaker 2: the into their fold and I'm with family. It's just

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Speaker 2: it's amazing.

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Speaker 1: It really is awesome. There's something satisfying listening to somebody

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Speaker 1: who's in the right job at the right time. And

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Speaker 1: where is this, Tracy, where do you work?

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Speaker 2: I'm at a high school in Berwick. I'm not sure

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Speaker 2: what I'm supposed to say that, but I'll say it anyways,

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Speaker 2: It's Ken Bryer sick Cottage.

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Speaker 1: And give your team a shout out. Who's in the

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Speaker 1: team with you?

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Speaker 2: Oh so, Jennet my work wife, And then our teachers

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Speaker 2: are Shelley Minori, Lisa, Leanne and Bob who's just come

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Speaker 2: onto the team as well. Not my go and they

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Speaker 2: are the most beautiful bunch of ladies I have ever

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Speaker 2: met in my life.

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Speaker 1: Awesome. Honestly, I feel like it needs to be a documentary.

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Speaker 1: I think it's amazing what you're part of that. I

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Speaker 1: love it. I love to hear and all your joy

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Speaker 1: about it Tracy as well. Thank you, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for sharing how you feel about it. Tracy, Okay,

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Speaker 1: have a good day today.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much, you too, paul A Brighter. You're listening

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