Part 4. Listen and Relax.
Keywords

mail carrier, best job, easygoing, married, customers, attitude.
Vocabulary

coop up, junket, interdiction, fluke, animosity.
You're going to hear a conversation between radio host Steve Weisman and Jim, a postal carrier. Listen and enjoy.
Jim in Brighton, you're next on RKO.Hi, Steve, been listening to you. Thanks,what kind of job do you do? I am a postal worker and a mail carrier. Oh, Do you like it? I do, I like it very much.
Do you get, now you said you're a mail carrier, so you get out there. I, yes, everyday. That part I think I would like cause I don't like being cooped up.
Yean, I'm told, from when I got into the Postal Service in the beginning of 1988, that the carriers are the best job.
Um, hum. Because we're out there on the street, and we don't have anybody looking over our shoulders. That's also. for a whole eight hours.
Yup, you don't have those supervisors with you all the time. We're only in there in the morning. And they're looking over your shoulder, but I work in Allston, and it's a very small station, and everybody's on a name, on a first name.
Oh, that's good. basis, and there's not a lot of stress there. If you want to do your job, you do it, and you do it well, and you don't complain a lot. It's really an easygoing job, and I do like it.
That's good. What do you think the best job would be ever? The best job of any in the world? Yeah. A food taster. Han, Yeah! A traveling food taster, where everything is a junket.