• August 01, 2023

1. What is the name of your profession (position)? I am a tour guide. 2. What is your job and what are your responsibilities? I lead excursions to various sights, historical monuments and simply beautiful places and protected places, my duties include both the function of a conductor-guide and conducting interesting excursions with groups of tourists. 3. What education is required to get your position? To get the position of a tour guide, you must have an appropriate certificate, which can be obtained after completing special courses in tour guide, and education is not so important, but higher humanitarian is desirable, then it will be easier to work with people and get a job .... 4. Describe your working day. The working day is irregular, most often, in the morning you have to come to the gathering place before everyone else, where the excursion departs from, and during the day you can conduct several excursions with different tourist groups! 5. How comfortable are your working conditions (all day outside, or in the office with a cup of coffee)? You have to work while on the move all the time - either on a bus or on foot, so half of the working day can be spent outdoors in any weather, so it’s not always possible to have a normal and on time lunch, because you don’t always know where you will be at lunchtime and in general Is it time for lunch. Since you always want to earn more, and the tourist season has its limits, then usually, when there is an influx of tourists, you work a lot, and when there are almost no more tourists, but then you earn less .... 6. What do you like most about your job? I like to work with different people, and most of these people are friendly, because they are set to rest, at the time of the excursion they forget about their problems, many go on excursions with children, which sometimes adds trouble, but there is something to remember, in addition the majority of excursions take place in picturesque places in nature, for example, I don’t really like to conduct excursions in enclosed spaces or museums, which is why, most often, I work on the road. 7. What do you dislike most about your job? I do not like it if the weather deteriorates on the day of the tour. 8. If it's not a secret, what is your salary level (is it enough to write whether you are satisfied or not)? The salary depends on the number of excursions, that is, during the tourist season it turns out a lot, and the rest of the time it is relatively small, but enough, so it suits me personally. 9. Describe your team, what kind of people work with you? Interesting erudite and sociable people work with me, as others simply would not be able to cope with the work properly. 10. What human qualities do you think are most important in your business? Firstly, it is important to have a lot of patience, since there are several groups of tourists a day, and everyone must be monitored, for example, so that they do not go to the lawns to take pictures, while never getting annoyed with anyone, that is, maintaining composure, and secondly,It is important to have high sociability and erudition, as well as the ability to quickly navigate in situations of any kind, it is best if the guide is sociable by nature, then it is easier to work, and the work itself will bring pleasure. 11. Work gives me additional opportunities (everything that work gives you except money, from self-expression and communication with interesting people to the opportunity to visit different countries). Indeed, my work allows me to communicate with new interesting people almost every day, to express myself, since each new excursion, even to the same object, differs from the previous one and is a small impromptu action. 12. Do you have the opportunity to evaluate your work on a five-point scale, what grade would you give? Excellent on a five-point scale, but this is my opinion, because I like this lifestyle and I like working with people. 13. Why did you choose this job? It can be said that the work chose me - I always liked to travel, learn something new, visit sights, but at the same time learn details about the places where I was, their history, and the work of a guide implies all this, but with a creative approach, the main thing is to prepare well in advance theoretically and practically for each excursion. 14. What do you think we did not include in the plan and what else would you like to share with us? It seems to me that your questionnaire plan did not include a point about what professions and jobs a person has changed in his entire life, it would be interesting to know how and where a person came from to his current and permanent place of work, for example, I first worked culture journalist. 0