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Take this fun quiz to find out if this industry is the industry
for you.
Imagine you're working and you encounter the following
situations in the course of your work. How would you react?
Rate how you would feel about each situation?
1. Standing on your feet for long hours (about 8 hours on average everyday)?
I accept it as part of my job and I have no problems with it at all.
I'm not sure if I can bear with this everyday but it's OK once in
a while.
Get me out of this hell hole!
2. Working with your hands to make beds, wash toilets, carve ice, peel potatoes, bake cakes etc?
3. Getting a low starting pay but working long hours?
smart and articulate - people to look up to
4.Working during public holidays and festive seasons?
5. Working shifts and odd hours (the night shift takes place between 8pm and 6am)?
6.Getting scolded through no fault of your own?
7. Saying sorry to customers even though you were right and they were wrong?
8.Smiling politely to rude customers?
9. Dealing with questions and complaints by customers?
10.Giving directions and describing places of interest to tourists?
11. Living out of a suitcase because of the constant traveling?
12.Working in a foreign country all by yourself?
*This quiz originally appeared in coursesNOW! Hospitality & tourism
issue 2 (2004)*
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