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単語リスト

キーワード	発音記号 (IPA)	意味
I will say that	/aɪ wɪl seɪ ðæt/	～と言っておきたい、～と前置きする
get a sniff at it	/ɡet ə snɪf æt ɪt/	（仕事などの機会に）ほんの少し手が届きそうになる、わずかな可能性を得る
a corporate city job	/ə ˈkɔːrpərət ˈsɪti dʒɒb/	都会にある大企業での仕事
on benefits	/ɒn ˈbenɪfɪts/	生活保護を受けて
for short stints	/fɔːr ʃɔːrt stɪnts/	短期間の間
at a time	/æt ə taɪm/	一度に、一回につき
fell back to	/fel bæk tuː/	～に頼るようになった、～に戻った
bullshit	/ˈbʊlʃɪt/	でたらめ、たわごと（非常に強い言葉）
out of touch	/aʊt əv tʌtʃ/	（現実や世間から）かけ離れた、ずれた
the justification of Maggie Thatcher	/ðə ˌdʒʌstɪfɪˈkeɪʃən əv ˈmæɡi ˈθætʃər/	マーガレット・サッチャー（元イギリス首相）の政策の正当化
I’m very sure	/aɪm ˈveri ʃʊər/	私はとても確信している
have a stomach full of it	/hæv ə ˈstʌmək fʊl əv ɪt/	うんざりしている、もうたくさんだ
the lack of meaning that it all has	/ðə læk əv ˈmiːnɪŋ ðæt ɪt ɔːl hæz/	それら全てが持つ意味の欠如
dropped dead	/drɒpt ded/	突然死んだ
headbutt	/ˈhedbʌt/	頭突きをする
a high paying career	/ə haɪ ˈpeɪɪŋ kəˈrɪər/	高収入のキャリア
I can really confirm that	/aɪ kæn ˈriːəli kənˈfɜːm ðæt/	私は本当にそれを確信できる
means next to nothing	/miːnz nekst tuː ˈnʌθɪŋ/	ほとんど意味がない、取るに足りない
I can feel my soul being sucked from me	/aɪ kæn fiːl maɪ soʊl ˈbiːɪŋ sʌkt frəm miː/	魂が吸い取られるように感じる

I hate being corporate

First of all, I will say that I do feel bad complaining about having a job in this economy, it took me months to even get a sniff at it.

I’ve been at a corporate city job for a couple of months now, and I can’t get over the pure culture shock. I grew up primarily on benefits, my parents worked for short stints at a time, but they always fell back to benefits. I was the first in my family to go to university, and the first to work in an office. I’m not making a huge amount of money, I’m making just under the national average (google says that is around £37k, that is bullshit, but anyway), I’m making more money than anybody in my family ever has already.

The people in my team are around 90% very very middle/ upper class. Every single day I hear something ridiculously out of touch, I hear the justification of Maggie Thatcher, I hear the most ridiculous childhood experiences that I couldn’t have even imagined. Now I’m not saying that these are bad things, they’re all relatively nice people, but I genuinely can’t find a single thing that we have in common, and I’m very sure they feel the same way.

I thought that I was supposed to go to university, get the office job and just enjoy it until I retire, but I’ve already kind of had a stomach full of it. I hate the lack of meaning that it all has. I don’t make any kind of difference, if I disappeared from the job today, nobody would realise. I think If I dropped dead walking from the train station to the office, I’d just get walked over and it would be a funny slack message for the people that saw it, and if I have to hear about one more fucking skiing trip I might just headbutt someone.

When people used to say having a high paying job doesn’t make you happy, I used to think it was bullshit, but now I’m on the way to a high paying career, I can really confirm that it means next to nothing.

Again I realise I’m complaining from a very privileged position, but Jesus Christ I can feel my soul being sucked from me daily.

出典元

https://www.reddit.com/r/UKJobs/comments/1k4egow/i_hate_being_corporate/