Tea at Four - Ep 9: Are Dream Jobs a Myth?

Episode Date: February 17, 2023

Hi, and welcome to Tea at Four! A podcast series by Four Nine, where Lauren, Billy and Christie talk about all things that should have stayed in the group chat- your icks, picks and hot takes straight from your friendly girls and a gay. Are dream jobs a myth? That's the topic of conversation in today's episode. We talk careers, and whether or not our younger selves envisioned the jobs we're doing today.

Hi and welcome back to Tea at Four. I'm Lauren. I'm Billy. I'm Christy talking all things that should have stayed in the group chat. Okay, you guys ready? Ready. Alright. Guys, I saw this TikTok the other night and it kind of got me the concept of the dream job is actually like a a capitalist myth that you're told as a child um which actually is just there to like gear you up to be working as an adult like as soon as possible i personally agree with this statement because i'm thinking of all those times when you're younger and you're asked what you want to be when you grow up like mine obviously changed about 4 000 fucking times yeah but ultimately yeah surely like it's not done for the benefit of like your passions when you're

four surely it's all for like i kind of disagree i think that like that's yeah like it's kind of encourage passions and you know hobbies and steer kids or young people into a direction that they'll have you know a happy career otherwise loads of people throughout school don't know what they want to do is life all should life be all about i think life should be about being happy and doing something that makes you happy yeah but having a dream job as opposed to working in an office so you can have a nicer i would rather that could be somebody's dream job working in office i don't think it is somebody out there's ultimately the way we've been conditioned really is if you want to live your passion it's got to be something that pays my dream job is being a mum so my two kids i love it how about it that's a dream job is being a mum. To my two kids. I love it. To my twins. How about that? That's a dream job.

Do you know what I mean? Not everybody has that dream and I want that dream. Yeah, I don't really, I think, yeah. Yeah. So you still have a dream job? No, but, mum's not a job.

It's a lifestyle. No, but it is a job. Yeah. It is. So you still. No, but it's a good job. It's a job that doesn't have job qualities,

but it's a job. Yeah, Facebook. Good job time money. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a job that doesn't have job qualities but it's a job yeah facebook yeah yeah yeah it's a job exactly and it's your dream job it's my dream job yeah but do you think if someone said someone asked you that question when you were younger in a classroom when you do like careers day and something and you sat there and was like i want to be a mom no do you think they would have accepted accepted that because i'm back home you'd be like no like, no, you need to be in this type of career. You need to have this kind of qualification.

You need to go to uni. You need to, you need to, you need to. No, I don't need to. I need to follow what I want to do. I need to look after my twins. Yeah, I need to look after my twins. And be happy looking after them or being happy with anything that you do. I think that's what, so I think the final dream job is basically something that you're content with so if that if that is monetary then it's monetary

if it's not monetary it's happiness and it's happiness you know what i mean so you can't really so did you have any when you were like really little did you have any dream jobs i think i used to really want to be an actor wow yeah that was always what I wanted to do I think yeah anything like naming lights vibes main attention well I was an only child so really anything that just spared that on and I got paid for it I don't know mine was less about the attention mine was more about the before me mine I said teacher and a food critic oh yeah oh nice food taster mom i don't like my dinner can i get something else like just trying like different type of foods then again heavily influenced my dad's a chef so he's like that's nice i can eat food from all over the place

what yeah yeah food oh food oh yeah english but then why didn't any of you end up doing those things? I hadn't. Why? Because I think you'd lose the conversation of you can no longer go for your dream job. You've got to go for what's financially stable. Affordable. I was going to say, I think money sets it apart from everything. Because I was like,

I would look at all these big stage schools out of the Isle of Wight and obviously that takes money, which we didn't have. So then you have to shut that off until you get to a point where like maybe it's a thing. And then a dream job turns into just a hobby and then the hobby diminishes as you get older, time and stuff.

Finishing the pack burner. And all my dreams of becoming an actress on high school is gone. Exactly that. Like you're told from a young age, what's your dream job aspire for that yeah and then it switches and it becomes like no you just need to get a job that pays yeah it's a bit sad oh isn't it um but talking of just general jobs did you have any like really odd weird ones like job jobs yeah just actual jobs that you partaken in i was a no deliver i used to deliver newspapers And then I was a pot wash in a pub

Pot wash I worked as a waiter at a hotel So not too weird So a lot of kind of like working class Boring, hard labouring Long hours It's not for me, I've got dainty fingers How old are you last year of college?

That's like before you go to uni like what oh what that's when you got your first job yeah really yeah i've been working to the most since i was 14 really newspaper round and then 16 was in the pub yeah whole way i was doing 40 hours a week whilst working at uni that's mad like i would like have like uni throughout the week and every hour i wasn't at uni i was basically working at this hotel to get money because i couldn't like although you got like some loan i didn't get a lot so then i had to kind of like that's mad it should be the time of your life but again you have to do it to stay float i've had 16 jobs wait hold up wait a minute yeah like just part-time ones and then this one's obviously first out of uni. Yeah, full-time, yeah. But yeah, 16.

16? I've only had like, so House of Fraser. One, two. This one, then one after uni. Yeah, House of Fraser and then Odeon's at the cinema.

Oh, very good jobs. Yeah. Yeah, but was you able to keep those jobs for a long period of time? It's like 16 jobs tells me you're a... It's because there are low prospects on the Isle of Wight. I think I did. Tells me you got fired a lot. 16 jumps tells me you're... It's because there are low prospects on the Isle of Wight. I think I did.

Tells me you got fired a lot. Did you? I never got fired. Lorraine? This is my performing CV. No, I had like really random ones. Like, I remember one of them was like a script writer.

What? I don't know how I came across the... Wait, wait, wait. For that TV show. Do you know it? EastEnders? Did you actually write one? No, you fucking idiot. No, it was like't i genuinely don't know how i got the job but it was working for this

random boy in america and it was to write scripts for youtube videos and you know like you're now watching watch mojo and we are counting down with the 10 like fittest pokemons of all time and like i had to just write these viral videos that would get like four million views and like do all the research to talk about these pokemons and how much did it pay oh probably like 15 pounder script which now we're back in social media would have been that's 15 pounds a lot of money back then. 15? 15, yeah. Yeah, well, I was in university. Well, back then it was quite a lot of money, you know? Let's not go back to the olden ages.

Yeah, fucking tuppence. No, go for it. I'm not that old. 15 pounds right now is nothing. I did two weeks on a building site and I cried every morning. Oh my God. I was like, Dad, I want a summer job. Yeah.

He was like, oh, okay, you can work at, Dad, I want a summer job. Yeah. He was like, oh, okay, you can work at, because he works at a building company. He was like, you can come work on site. And I thought,

he works in an office. I was like, oh, so easy. Yeah. I would cry every morning. What, they had you out on the turf?

They had me wheelbarrowing cement. Two weeks. Darling. Not the cement. I was like, Mum, I'm not getting out. I'm not doing it.

Did you have to go sit your lunchbox out on the planks? On the brick wall. Sitting there like, my summer holiday is absolutely like. Did you get a tan at least?

Because I always think that would be a lovely job to have. Boiling red, sweating. It doesn't tan very well because it's our village. Y'all had fun, boy. I didn't have no fun at all.

What part of that story sounds fun? Just in terms of that experience. That's fun. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Please, go do two weeks. I mean, two weeks is really not a lot in comparison to most people. That's their real job.

But it was not funny. What's your dream job if money didn't matter? Oh, I wouldn't work. Money didn't matter. What's your dream job if money didn't matter? Oh, I wouldn't work. Money didn't matter. What's your dream job if money didn't matter? The moolah. The ka-ching.

Yeah. The cash dollar. I'd be a traveller. A traveller. A full-time traveller. That's it. Actually, you'd be like a hotel.

You've got to make it into an actual job. Oh, do you? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Maybe like a travel content creator then. Can I be like a pilot?

Yeah, that's sick. That's a sick job. Yeah, a pilot pays so pilot yeah that's sick that's a sick job pilots pay so well yeah but that's people's lives that you're that you're looking after as well

oh yeah oh wait so if I don't already have money this is just this isn't for fun this is a job that I enjoy right

I'm getting that now I'd still be a content creator I'd be a dance instructor oh an actress maybe an actress yeah then the rejection would really get to my self esteem

that would really damage me I would love to work on the West End would you bang bang bang give it up the flyers oh my god

I actually know there actually is this thing on TikTok about like people that really like jobs that doesn't involve much like pressure

of like of targets and stuff like you just go in there get the job done and then you're out at the end of the day

I would actually love that what about if you won the lottery the ultimate the ultimate conversation

don't tell anybody oh no I always said the first thing I'd do would be to go get an iPad that is

something I say isn't it. Get a what? iPad. Wait hold on. Get a what? You so desperately want to be an iPad kid. I do. That's my dream job.

Wait an iPad? iPad-o. I used to have that kind of mentality when I was 13. Oh. No I don't know there's just something lovely about it. Right Lauren close your eyes I've actually got a surprise for you. Oh my gosh. We've got you an iPad. Oh my gosh. We've got you.

We've got you an iPad. Wow. You get an iPad. You get an iPad. You get an iPad. So good. Lovely. Wow.

Wow. The first thing you buy is an iPad. Yeah, I don't know. I've always just had this idea that as soon as I get that lottery money in my bank account, I'll go it. And then I'll go to the airport. I don't know what I'd do, but I would do it from the Plaza Suite. In the New York.

Yeah, in the New York. And you're like, I'll have room service, please. I'll have the pizza, the ice cream. I will go to Fiji. You've won the lottery on pizzas, what you're all doing. Lord, am I really a pizza lady? Lord, is that how of pizzas that you're all doing. I'm a little old lady.

I'm a little old. Pizza and an iPad and I'm done. No, literally, I'm done. I'm life. I am.

It doesn't take much. I think I would just go travelling. Yeah, a hundred. I actually think if I had loads of money, I would go into

property renovations. Oh, you would be so good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah nice interiors oh yeah believe so maybe that's what i would do i love that so did you guys see a couple uh years ago there was a girl and she won the lottery when she was young and then must have obviously done got rid of all the cash and then now says that she regrets even having it in the first place i think if you could think about thought about like if you're 16 year old self what's the age like 18 17 year old self won the lottery versus compared to now

i feel like it's just the impulse of i didn't have money now i've got money yeah so i'm going to spend the money what is there to even spend money on that age? but I feel like you just spend money on just that random shit anything and everything can't you? so you won't even think about okay oh I need to save because the money's just there you don't have that money management whereas if I had it now I'll be like hold on wait a minute no one's gonna know not even the family I'll be investing here there there and whatever and I feel like you wouldn't tell your family

no what that's when all the mad people come out I'll be invested here, there, there and whatever And I feel like You wouldn't tell your family? No What? That's when all the mad people come out I was about to say that That's when the mad people come out I'd never let people know how much I'd won either No, no, no I would not No one would know

Everyone would be like Oh, how much you give them And how much you got You can give me a bit more, can't you? Exactly Can I have a bit more after that? Oh yeah It would challenge your relationship

The greed relationship be greedy yeah yeah we know i don't know someone but a friend of a friend won like a million yeah yeah um and that was enough for them to kind of like buy a house and look for work elsewhere but nowadays that wouldn't even go that far in london no i wonder if more people would fancy me though if I if you had the money I'm the lot lot aww sorry are they fancying me

or are they fancying the money that you have oh thanks Christy no but think about it no no but honestly they're not gonna be and I want genuine love for you sister girl

yeah but if I'm on the front of the sun with my big check more people might be able to see me equals more suitors true true true true but you just gotta make sure that they're not psycho

you could buy loads of Instagram followers Invisaligners Invisalign Invisalign what? Instagram followers yeah nah I don't want that it's alright

okay this is the part of the podcast where we get to react to the internet's wildest confessions and rate them on the brutal meter whenever my husband plucks fluff out

of his belly button, he reaches down my top and puts it inside my bra so I can carry a bit of him around all day. My heart sinks a little when I see him digging but it's gone on too long for me to tell him I don't like it. I don't think...

I think you can tell him now. There's no limit of time for us to decide this is wrong. It's the fact that you sit there and you know what he's doing and he's come to you and he's... No, come on, mate. Oh, he's got a glass. I can't believe what you're saying.

Hearing, seeing or believing. Wow. That's too gross. Why would you... How do you not physically show your revulsion? Why? People love putting their secretions, like keeping them.

I hear people like keeping toenails. Okay, that's disgusting. Keep that to yourself, please. I wouldn't do that. Oh, belly button flat. That is repulsive. That's smelly. And she's now... No, carrying a part of you would be something like a locket,

not a fucking piece of... Thank you. Yeah, belly button flat. And the disrespect as well. Like, if someone did that to of you would be something like a locket, not a fucking piece of... Thank you. Yeah. A little disrespect as well. Like, if someone did that to me, I'd be like, fuck off. Yeah. Prison. Jail time.

Get your hands away. Yeah. Remove yourself. No way. Yeah, that's disgusting. I think that's a strong eight on the brutal meter. Eight? Even more, man.

Yeah. Yeah. 8.5. I'd give it a nine. Yeah, I was going to say 9 yeah I was gonna say 9 I'm not gonna lie body fluids snapchat

snap flag snap flag violation I'm sticking with my 8.5 because I feel like there's things that would be even worse and I don't wanna like

shit shit in her bra yeah I don't wanna sorry it was just a joke on to the next one one time I had to sleep over at my friend's house where there were three of us i went to go to the toilet on the way i saw some nice looking nail polish in the mum's room so i went in to look at

it then i heard the mum coming so i hid in the closet which was a bad idea because i needed the toilet then i realized the mum was getting ready for bed and i knew i was fucked it went on for so long that i took a poo in the closet and never spoke about it since was your friends not wondering where you were you're in there shitting in a fucking cupboard yeah but did the shit smell i'm sorry babes i've not got details because because my thing is like the fact that you shat. Someone's wardrobe. Someone's clothes.

The only violation to do it in someone's private space, but to do it on my clothes is a no. Yo, shoes. That's going to be... And plus, you can't even see. So what are you shitting on yourself as well? Shoes. Fleas.

Shoes and coats and bags. That is fucking horrendous no no that's that's up there no but Lauren for real where

were her friends because what I know people need to actually do something called find their voice empower your

voice and your space and you know what if you're in a closet get out if you are needing a shit

speak careful about telling people to come out of the closet oh sorry no he never says the word um

that is too much and I'm going to give it a ten oh do you know what in the case if it's just child maybe you're not fully formed yet mentally

no so maybe a six is a ten oh my god a six that's a ten I'd rather take the the child's poo in the closet

over the belly button fluff of my bra you're cleaning you're cleaning it afterwards it's not mine mum Six, that's a ten. I'd rather take the child's poo in the closet over the belly button fluff of my bra. You're cleaning it afterwards. It's not mine, mum. Yeah, but still, let's say you were the mum. You're cleaning it yourself. You're cleaning that shit.

You're even going to be thinking, how the hell did that shit get into there? Okay, were you not a baby once? Are you not going to have your twin babies to clean up their poo in the closets and their friends? They won't be in my closet. Trust their friends? They won't be in my closet. Trust and believe. They won't be in there. They'll be on the boob, latched on.

Okay, then. What do you rate it? Ten. I'd say like a nine. Okay. I grew up in a very sentimental family. So the first time I trimmed my pubes, I collected all the hairs and put them in a ring box for my mum so she could remember me becoming a woman.

And she said, oh, oh baby that's disgusting yes it is disgusting horrible like you know when you have a look of hell and you're a baby but you're doing it for yourself no she's doing but i see the innocence in that well yeah sentimental is definitely the word because if i was if you took a scientific point of view you could probably put it you know in a ziploc bag not me defending the pubemeister um but the ring box a little bit yeah so you what you cut it you scooped it up and then no goodbye

I think that's part of the parents fault though if they're like collecting everything that they do you know that child is like they said they grew up

in a sentimental family yeah that's for fucking postcards and stamps yeah but you don't as a kid you don't know how like

how intimate your pubes are what's anyone intimate your pubes are. What's anyone's pubes? Pubes. I feel a bit more sorry. I just knew I had to cut it off as soon as possible. Sorry.

But I do give that a seven and a half. Okay, I don't think it's... No. It's the family's fault. So I'll give it a six.. So I'll give it a six. Six. I'll give it a six. It's not as bad. Remembering the time I went to the toilet at my ex's house in the middle of the night,

didn't turn the light on, pulled my trousers down, and sat on his stepdad's lap. Sorry. What? Sat on the stepdad's lap. What? Wait, wait, where's the stepdad? She didn't turn on the stepdad's lap where's the stepdad she didn't turn on the lights wait hold on hold on i'm so confused reload it reload it reload it reload it remembering the time i went to the toilet at my ex's house in the middle of the night

didn't turn the light on pulled my trousers down and sat on his stepdad's lap so it was a stepdad in the toilet i don't know where the stepdad in the toilet? Or a stepdad in the landing? Where is it? She knows where the toilet is but the lights are off. Why is he shitting in the dark? Peace of mind. Is it at night? Is it at night?

Was she sleepwalking or just like did she not feel his fucking thighs? Middle of the night, didn't turn the light on, pulled my trousers down, sat on his stepdad's lap oh bear lap bear lap so he was on the flippin toilet seat yeah he must have been unless he sits on his bed naked or what he's actually on the other side he's just sitting there what the hell what's that fucking film bird box or something do people not have other senses other than their eyes you're not hearing breathing heavily we're just like the wee pissing down the toilet also like why yeah why is he doing whatever he is in the dark open not locked in the dark

what do we rate that that's a 10 because that would scar me for life yeah okay that would scar me um when i was nine i watched frozen and I thought I had the same powers as Elsa, because I had dandruff. So I taught the class, I had snow powers, and I started to scratch my scalp. Oh, no. That is horrible. Get down in the jumper.

Bless you. You feel really sensitive about this one, don't you? No. Oh, no, that is cute cute that's not too bad that's just like yeah innocent that's innocent you're gonna you're gonna have that nickname forever aren't you i'll give that on the what on the brutal scale oh like a free three two yeah one normalisedandraft.com so this is the part of the show where we play don't spill the tea where you spill the tea and we try not to period

chin chin oh lauren are you not gonna chin chin there's a bit of mold growing on the bottom of my cup oh okie dokie let let's rock. Right, ready? Earlier this week, my four-year-old daughter asked me while we were getting changed after swimming, Daddy, why is your penis so chunky? I've never felt so flattered and horrified at the same time. No? Okay.

24 years ago, aged 18, I walked in on my dad licking mum out. After I'd been on a night out. Mum brought a cup of tea the next morning and asked how my night was, told her I didn't remember getting home to save the embarrassment. When my sister and I were little,

we didn't understand what vaginal discharge was. We thought it was coming out of our butts. So we made a song called Butter in My Bum. She likes that one. Oh, it's in my eyebrows. It's not in my teeth. Do you know what the image I've got in my head, you've got to think about it. No.

I don't want to know Stick a lard in someone's arse Churning butter You know a hot dog The hot dog part She liked that one Oh no It's in my scalp

Christ I'm covered in I look like a fucking history project. Tea stains. Oh my god, arts and crafts. Okay. When I was eight, my uncle died from a heart attack.

And my brother said it was because I was so ugly that it scared him to death. And I believed him and I felt so guilty that I called the cops to turn myself in. When I was at school, this girl started having a tick attack and I had no idea what those were. So I said, okay, beatboxing legends. how did that fucking bounce off the walls that hit me in the eye i don't know who's it came from She was Oh my god I'm so sorry

Right then Stop it Stop it! Stop it! What are you doing? What are you doing? I can't breathe, guys. Okay, my husband and I were in Puerto Rico. I'm breastfeeding, but I forgot to pack my pump.

So for four days we were in Puerto Rico, my boobs are like on fire. And by the first day I told him he had to help me out. So I had to breastfeed my husband. I just like to suck a breast. What? You don't think you needed to do that? Oh, oh, he had to

relieve it. Yes, he had to suck the breast. Goodness me. Goodness, goodness me. Well, that's another episode Down the Drain. Hope you enjoyed it. Goodbye. Join us again next week yes please