I Make $100K Walking Your Dog In NYC | On The Job (CNBC Make it) Flashcards

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(He has a paper-based planing system) If there’s a mistake or cancellation or an add-on I have to scribble it out.

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scribble -> 本身是指塗鴉
scribble it out -> 應該就是劃掉之類的

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A good dog walker is focused, attentive.

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paying close attention to something.

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And then I will take an evening shift which is like 2-3 hours.

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An evening shift is a work period that typically spans the late afternoon and evening. 總之就是可能白天工作一下,然後下午休息一下,然後evening再工作一下

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I can easily pull in 6 figures after taxes.

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succeed in securing or obtaining something.

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I can make more but I kind of settled on just maybe 100k a year and low stress.

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My chore as an adolescent was walking the dog

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chore -> a routine task, especially a household one.
adolescent -> teenager

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Or you drop the leash

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牽狗狗的繩子

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sleet

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雨夾雪,下的一點冰冰小球球(我也不知道,一般掉地上就變水了)

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The dog’s tail gets caught in the door

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Just the expression

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You have to pick up the poop. This is the most glamorous aspect of the job.

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attractive or appealing. (I literally don’t understand, is this sarcasm?)

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Collar

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For dog, it means 項圈

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Sometimes I’ll have like an unusual request one example is I want my dogs to always be wearing its boots. That’s something I’ll just turn them down.

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Expression

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We as humans have allowed ourselves to drift farther away from the earth.

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漂浮

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(He was saying dogs want to feel the earth) If you put your boots on dogs then you’re severing that connection.

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divide by cutting or slicing, especially suddenly and forcibly.

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you want your apartment clean at the expense of your dog’s happiness

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(A small dog) He prances. He’s kind of macho like he doesn’t think that he’s small.

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Prance: to walk in an energetic way and with more movement than necessary
Macho: 指男生很跩,就覺得自己很有男子氣概的那種

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You have people looking over your shoulder all the time. (He was talking about more and more owners put cameras and dog trackers on dogs)

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to worry or think about the possibility that something bad might happen, that someone will try to cause harm, etc.

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It makes it a little bit more stressful to actually handle the dogs if the owners are always like hounding you

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Chase. 他這個YouTube裡面的例子是說他在walk dogs的時候有些owner就會一直text他,所以這個hounding有些追著他跑的意思

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At least half the walkers I know had to fold shop.

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就是關店/倒閉啦。

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What I think is happening is we are becoming more technologically inclined.

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to lean

21
Q

They put their dogs inside baby strollers and wheel them around.

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22
Q

So where do they put their affection and their need to touch?

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a gentle feeling of fondness or liking.

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There’s less human interaction. then where they put their emotional outlet . so they start investing more money on their pet.

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a method by which emotions, energy, or abilities can be expressed.

就是一個發洩的管道的感覺
More examples:
Her work provided no outlet for her energies and talents.
Writing poetry was his only form of emotional outlet.