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March 13, 2010
Looking for a job
Couldn't the man in the story get any other kind of job? Couldn't he have been a high school teacher, for example?
Read the story and you might be surprised too.
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S Korean scientist gets the brush-off
SEOUL: A jobless scientist in South Korea with a doctorate in physics,
desperate
for work as the economic
slump
bites, applied for a street sweeper’s job but was
rejected
.
It wasn’t because he was overqualified for such a
menial
position – the 36-year-old simply lacked the physical ability, local officials said yesterday.
He wasn’t the only highly educated
applicant
for five street-sweeping jobs in Seoul’s Sangseo district. Among the 63 who applied were 11 university graduates.
But
brawn
overcame brains.
Applicants had to carry two 20kg sandbags on their shoulders before
dashing
25 metres with another.
The scientist, identified only as Kim, was three seconds too slow in the dash.
brush-off
– rude an unfriendly behaviour that show that a person is not interest in someone – in this case for a job
desperate
– feeling or showing that you have little hope and are ready to do anything
slump
– a period when a country’s economy or a business is doing very badly
reject
– to not refuse to accept or consider something
menial
–
(of work) boring or dirty; considered to be of low status
brawn
– physical strength
dashing
– running very quickly