| Role 1 Hi. I'm Robert Hamm. I'm a cook's assistant at a French restaurant. I want to become a full cook so I'm going to cooking school during the day. I've been working at the restaurant for 6 months now. I'm so obsessed with getting good grades, that I spend every spare second practicing cooking at home. Sometimes, I don't even have enough time to sleep. |
| Role 2 Hello. I'm Jerry Wallace. I'm a taxi driver. I work from 10 at night to 6 in the morning. I took the job after I got laid off from a local factory I was working at. I worked there for 25 years, but I'm 50 now and I've given up finding anything else. When I'm not working, I like to watch TV or talk with my friends at a local cafe. |
| Role 3 Hi, I'm Frank, Frank McCoy, nice to meet you. I'm a buyer for a large department store in town. I've been with my company for about 10 years now. I have a pretty comfortable job and I don't plan on leaving anytime soon. Um... I'm trying to lose a little bit of weight. You can see I'm a little overweight, but clients are always taking me out to dinner. In my spare time I like to try out new extreme sports like bungee cord jumping or climbing tall buildings. What about you? |
| Role 4 Hi. My name's Mark Tannenbaum. I'm a ballroom dancing instructor. Every waking moment I repeat to myself over and over again "I'm the best, I'm the best, I'm the best" and it works. At the school I teach at all the students want to take lessons from me. The other teachers all envy my flashy style and the management even told me to tone it down a bit. In my spare time I like to ..hm.. look in the mirror, I guess. |
| Role 5 Hi. I'm Roy Bancroft. I'm retired. Right out of college I made a lot of money on the stock market. I have a lot of spare time so I have a lot of hobbies. I collect exotic animals like tigers and jungle birds. I own my own professional football team and golf course. At night I put on my tuxedo and attend any of a number of charity dinners that I sponsor. What's next? I'm thinking of running for president. |
| Role 6 Hi. I'm Sue Johnson. I'm a waitress at a diner on Interstate 55 and no, I don't eat the food they cook there. You see my well-developed arm muscles? I've got those from lugging plates of bacon and eggs back and forth from the kitchen to those truckers over there with their bulging guts. They've come in handy more than once when one of them was fresh with me. Hobbies? Ah, this week it's new recipes. |
| Role 7 Hi. I'm Daniel Cody. I sing in a cocktail lounge. Well, I don't just sing. I also play the keyboard and drums. To be honest, I record most of it beforehand. I only got two hands, right? When I was a kid I wanted to be an opera singer, but I'm happy with my job and, most importantly, I'm happy with myself, who I am and where I am in this world. I've got a woman who loves me and my act which I'm trying to refine to perfection. What more could I ask for? |
| Role 8 Hi. I'm Cathy Hall. I'm a bicycle messenger. I dash around downtown all day on my mountain bike delivering urgent packages. I've got asthma so I'm always winded. I've got a college degree, so I really should try to get something better, but the job does give me the independence I've always looked for and most important, I'm not cooped up in an office all day long. In my free time I usually hang out with other bicycle messengers or go to the beach or to the park. |
| Role 9 Hi. I'm Steve Davis. Just call me Steve. I'm a pediatrician practicing in a poor neighborhood. I don't do it for the money. All my life I've wanted to help people in difficult circumstances and recently I've began to feel like I'm finally making a difference. They're a lot of people who don't go the doctor even though they have a serious condition because they're afraid of the cost. Often they're elderly, homeless, or unemployed and don't know where to turn. These are the sorts of people I'm trying to help. Free time? I don't have any. |
| Role 10 My name's Bill Gibson. I'm a CPA. My goal is to earn in the six figures. I'm a kind of a workaholic so ..ah.. no, I don't have any hobbies. I even invite my clients to Thanksgiving. Yes, I'm single and yes I'd love to go out with you if you're not already attached. No, I don't really like children, so I guess we won't be going out. They're so many good looking women in the office. I guess I'll end up shacking up with one of them, one of them drawn to me by my extraordinary charm and charisma... and my gold watch ... and my Porsche. |
| Role 11 Just call me Tom. I'm the guy who screwed the bolt onto the wheel of your Honda Civic, believe it or not. Not any old bolt either. The 32nd clockwise from the top, to be exact. On Sunday afternoons I like to sit on the sofa and watch pro-football, and drink a beer. My job? It's a union job, well paid. I can't complain. I just bought an RV. Marge and I are planning to travel around the country after I retire. |
| Role 12 Hello. I'm Martha Stewart. My husband and I run a liquor store downtown on skid row. It's a family business, so unfortunately we've already lost one son. We keep a handgun under the counter, but Tommy never took the time to learn how to use it (properly). What do I do in my freetime? I don't know. Watch TV, I guess. Plans for the future? I couldn't really say. Sell more booze, I guess. I guess we'd do something else if the store hadn't been in the family for 3 generations now. |