• August 01, 2023

1. What is the name of your profession (position)? I am a tour guide, I work as a tour guide. at a private travel agency. Another word for this profession is guide. 2. What is your job and what are your responsibilities? I need to meet a tourist group and lead them along a certain route, stopping near important objects and talking about them. Preliminarily, I prepare, I select stories and stories. I work in Rome. My route goes from the Colosseum to the Palatine. 3. What education is required to get your position? In some cases, a secondary education is enough, but I have a higher education. 4. Describe your working day. I come to work at 11 o'clock to get the first group out of the Colosseum and to get them on. The tour lasts approximately one hour and twenty. Then I have a short break of ten to twenty minutes and I get a new group. I go through three to five groups a day. 5. How comfortable are your working conditions (all day outside, or in the office with a cup of coffee)? I work outside all day, but I pop into the nearest cafe for a cup of coffee between excursions. There is often no break for lunch, and sometimes, on the contrary, the break is very long, I sit in a cafe. 6. What do you like most about your job? I like everything: the ancient city, the atmosphere, people who listen with interest to stories about ancient Rome. 7. What do you dislike most about your job? This work is seasonal, in the summer you have to constantly be in the heat and carry a bottle of water with you. 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 is quite high, in addition to the official salary, I receive a lot of cash thanks from tourists. 9. Describe your team, what kind of people work with you? Working with me are quite young people, there are five of us. Eight more organizers work with us, people who sell tickets for our excursions, the relationship is good. 10. What human qualities do you think are most important in your business? Endurance, patience, tolerance, sense of humor. 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). This job gives me the opportunity to live in one of the most interesting countries in the world, improve my English, learn Italian, meet a lot of new people, learn new things myself. 12. Do you have the opportunity to evaluate your work on a five-point scale, what grade would you give? Five 13. Why did you choose this job? I was just lucky, rather the work chose me. At first I got a job as an organizer of excursions, but then I was offered to work out and become a guide, which I do not regret. 14. What do you think we did not include in the plan and what else would you like to share with us? Am I going to be a tour guide for the rest of my life? No. This job is good for young people. I will be an economist. 0