Stay at home and get rich!

Track 07

A: Have you seen this?

B: What?

A: “Make money while you work at home, no skill required”.

B: It’s not really about working at home. You sign up to a scheme where they say the will pay you to
reply to emails or visit pages on the Internet, then you’re supposed to persuade your friends and
family to do it.

A: Oh, so it’s like pyramid selling.

B: Yes! The more people you get to do it, the more money you make. The idea is to show potential
advertisers that they have an audience. I doubt it really works. If it was so easy, everyone would do
it.

A: That’s a shame. I wouldn’t mind working at home if I had the opportunity.

B: I’m not so sure. I wouldn’t miss travelling into work every day, but if I was at home, I’d miss the
contact with the people here.

A: That’s true. But if you could just come in a couple of days a week, it would be OK. On the other
hand, unless you had somewhere quite to work, it would be difficult to get anything done.

B: Do you think you’d be disciplined enough?

A: I don’t know. I would if it was my own business. But, otherwise, who knows? It probably sounds
more attractive that it would be in reality.

B: I do talk about telework a lot these days. Some people say that if people stopped commuting, it
would be much greater for the environment.

A: That’s probably right. But, in the end, I think it depends on the type of job you have.