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Emily is a student at Dubuque Senior High School and has a part-time job. Look at the mini movie with the sound turned off. Find clues in the film about Emily’s job. What kind of place is it? What do you think she does? Then look at the mini movie again, this time with the sound on.

Right, so this is my part time job. I work at an Italian restaurant and the name of it is Crust. It’s a part-time job. Uhm, what I do is, I’m an expo in the back and so I like make the food … nice and then deliver it to the tables. I’m a waitress in training so I haven’t – I just turned 18, so you have to be 18 to … usually serve alcohol and things like that, so, but I’m in training for that. Ehm … some of the other places my friends work are like Hy-Vee, a grocery store, uhm, they’ll be like cashiers or they’ll stock … foods or they’ll work at like … uh, stores in the mall and sell clothes and things like that. Uh, most teenagers in America need jobs for like to pay for gas in their cars and, uhm, activities … uhm ... like … buying clothes, uhm, school activities, to get into events like dances and … sports and theatre events, as well.

I work usually weekends … uhm, Fridays and Saturdays, the days are busier with the restaurant business. Uhm … I average about 30 tips a night and then I’ll make like 4.50 hourly because we do get tips. Uhm, but I know when I worked at Hy-Vee – this is not my first job – I got like 7.25 an hour, so I actually think I do make more here with the adding of the tips.

I started this job around 7 months ago and I love it here. Everyone’s so friendly to work with and I love my co-workers. So … it’s a great place to work and I’m really happy that I’m in this bus-, the restaurant business, and learning all the ts- … waiting and waitress tips and everything so … it’s a nice place to work.

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