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Unit 7

Work

Lecture Four
Twenty-first century
cowboys

p. 68
Vocabulary
job satisfaction
 Decide how important these items are to job
satisfaction.
 Colleagues and culture
 Independence
 Job environment
 Promotion
 Training
 Schedule and hours
 Salary
Look at the cowboys. What do
you think is important in their
.job
 Cowboys have always had a romantic image. When
people first watched Hollywood films, being a
cowboy wasn’t a job. It was a life of adventure,
freedom, horses. It was a classic symbol of the
United States of America. In reality, the real
American cowboys have lived and worked here in
the west and south-west of the United States for
over three centuries, long before Hollywood. The
adventure and romance have disappeared but the
hard work and long hours are the same as they’ve
always been.
 No one knows how many cowboys are still working.
Maybe between ten and fifty thousand. It’s also
difficult to define a twenty-first century cowboy.
Surely it can’t be the big cattle owners who do
business with a seventy-billion dollar beef industry?
These modern ranches use the latest technology
and employ accountants. But even some of the old
traditional cattle ranches make more money
nowadays by offering holidays to tourists; people
come and stay for a holiday and live the cowboy’s
life (or a Hollywood version of it).
 But even with technology and Hollywood romance,
real cowboys still do the same job they have done
for years. The cattle still need to walk across huge
plains and eat grass many miles from the ranch.
And so cowboys ride on horses to bring them home.
Cowboys work in the middle of nowhere, in a place
where you can’t make a phone call because mobile
phones don’t work. Like the cowboys of the past,
twenty-first century cowboys still get up early on
freezing cold mornings and make breakfast over an
open fire. There is no Monday to Friday, weekends
off or paid holidays.
 So why do men – because it is usually men –
choose this life? Pat Crisswell had a good job with
the government. He made good money but he didn’t
like the city. He wanted to do something different.
So one day, he gave up his job and moved to a
ranch in Texas, earning much less as a cowboy. He
remembers his work colleagues in the city on the
day he left. They all thought Pat was crazy. But he
wanted job satisfaction more than money.
 Two brothers – Tyrel and Blaine Tucker –
have lived on ranches and worked with cows
since they were children. Their mother had a
ranch in Wyoming. Last winter, they looked
after 2,300 cows. Every day from December
until April, they rode across nearly 100,000
acres of land with only the cattle, the horses,
and each other for company. Eighteen-year-
old Tyrel Tucker says, ‘It was fun. You get to
be by yourself.’
 Blaine has a large moustache and Tyrel is
growing his. They wear traditional cowboy
clothes with the famous hat and boots. You
could do the same job in a baseball cap and
a truck but Tyrel and Blaine prefer the
traditional cowboy culture: ‘It’s a real life
about you, your horse and the open country.’
Glossary
 symbol (n) /ˈsɪmbl/ something that represents a society, country or type of life
 cattle (n) /ˈkaetl/ cows
 ranch (n) /ra:ntʃ/ large farm for cattle, horses or sheep
 plain (n) /pleɪn/ grassy areas of open land
 good money /gʊd ˈmʌni/ expression meaning ‘a lot of money’ or ‘well-paid’
 acre (n) /ˈeɪkə(r)/ measurement of land

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