Cameraman: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, ten
Interviewer: Hey Jared!
Jarrad: Hi everyone.
Jarrad: How's it going?
Interviewer: Great thanks!
Cameraman: We're rolling ...
Interviewer: Tell us about your job, Jarrod.
Jarrad: I'm the Director of Product Development at E2language.com.
I work with linguistics and technology and we provide online English
language test preparation and corporate training.
Interviewer:  The website looks good.  Talk us through the highs and lows of starting your business.
Jarrad: I love working with
language actually; that's probably the best thing. I like the idea of helping
people too.
Immigration or university  entrance or job promotions or whatever
that is, that's that's a nice nice aspect of it.
Interviewer: Cool, are there any challenges?
Jarrad: Poverty was a big one...(laughs)... for a long time.
Just working out how this thing
fits within the market actually, the sort of the commercial decisions
that we have to make...
Interviewer: Was it a success from the start...was it all smooth sailing?
Jarrad: No...I mean you try many different avenues... and most of them inevitably fail.
You need to be flexible in your own mind actually
because you have an idea of what it is going to be, and how its going to look.
And the you realise that its not going to be that at all and you have to go the other way.
and you need the ability to do that very quickly to be agile I guess.
Jarrad: Let's 
go grab a coffee.
Interviewer: Yes sir, lead the way
Interviewer: What do you have? Latte, cappuccino...?
Latte.
As per usual.
Interviewer: What was the most important skill you learned at Uni, to prepare you for work?
Jarrad: Ummmm...
Understanding the language deeply is really important.
But for me I think it was research methods and statistics, which allows me to do really interesting testing.
Interviewer: Would you do anything differently next time?
Jarrad: If you could do it all again I'd be able to do it twice as quick!... but that's not the
point.
...it is a big learning curve.
Interviewer: What song best represents your work day?
Jarrad: What was the
question?
Interviewer: Is there a soundtrack to your job?
Jarrad: Ahhh...
Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan.
(singing) "Johnny's in the basement mixin' up the medicine, I'm on the pavement
talking about the government..."
Interviewer: That was really beautiful (sarcastic).
Jarrad: Thanks for listening... no
that sounds like radio show...
Guys I'm off, see you later.... oh that is getting worse.....(laughing)
