| fulfilling | making you feel happy and satisfied because you are doing interesting, useful, or important things |
| arduous | involving a lot of strength and effort/ trudny, ciężki, wymagający |
| mind-numbing | very boring |
| demanding | wymagający/ needing a lot of skill, patience, effort |
| gruelling | very difficult and tiring, needing great effort for a long time |
| rewarding | worth doing; that makes you happy because you think it is useful or important |
| hazardous | involving risk or danger, especially to sb's health or safety |
| glamorous | attractive, exciting, and related to wealth and success/ +prestizowy.. |
| mundane | ordinary and not interesting or exciting [= boring] |
| secure | likely to continue or be successful for a long time |
| stimulating | full of interesting or exciting ideas; making people feel enthusiastic =inspiring |
| strenuous | needing great effort and energy = arduous |
| stressful | stresujący/causing a lot of anxiety and worry |
| motivating | to make someone want to achieve something and make them willing to work hard in order to do this |
| physical | related to someone's body |
| intellectual | relating to the ability to understand things and think intelligently |
| creative | involving the use of skill and the imagination to produce sth new or a work of art |
| manual | involving using the hands or physical strength |
| blue-collar | connected with people who do physical work in industry/ robotic fizyczny |
| white-collar | working in an office, rather than in a factory/ biurowy |
| administrative | connected with organizing the work of a business or an institution/ administracyjny |
| graphic designer | grafik |
| sound technician | technik dźwięku? |
| talent scout | someone whose job is to find young people who are very good at sport, music etc/ łowca talentów |
| refuse collector | = garbage collector (AmE), śmieciarz |
| assembly-line worker | pracownik linii produkcyjnej, a system for making things in a factory in which the products move pas |
| fire fighter | strażak |
| computer programmer | programista |
| business executive | kierownik w korporacji handlowej/a person who has an important job as a manager of a company or an o |
| civil servant | a person who works in the civil service |
| plastic surgeon | chirurg plastyczny |
| general practitioner | internista, lekarz ogólny, lekarz pierwszego kontaktu |
| dental hygienist | higienistka stomatologiczna/works with a dentist and whose job is to clean people's teeth |
| competition-competitive | trying very hard to be better than others |
| efficiency-efficient | doing sth well and thoroughly with no waste of time, money, or energy |
| manufacture-manufacturing | produkcja przemysłowa |
| viable-viability | that can be done; that will be successful |
| economics-economist | ekonomia |
| production-productive | making goods or growing crops, especially in large quantities |
| monopoly-monopolise | monopol-control of trade |
| job | work for which you receive regular payment |
| employment | the state of being employed |
| occupation | a job or profession/ zawód, zajęcie |
| profession | a type of job that needs special training or skill, especially one that needs a high level of educat |
| trade | a job, involves working with your hands and requires special training and skills/fach |
| vocation | a type of work or way of life that you believe is especially suitable for you/powolanie |
| duty | the work that is your job/obowiązek zawodowy |
| task | a piece of work that sb has to do, especially a hard or unpleasant one |
| project | a planned piece of work that is designed to find information about sth, to produce sth new, or to im |
| raise | podwyżka |
| award | a prize such as money, |
| grant | a sum of money that is given by an organization for a particular purpose/dotacja |
| the whiz | sb who is very good at solving problems esp mechanical, technical/spec, ekspert |
| the perfectionist | a person who likes to do things perfectly and is not satisfied with anything less |
| the paper-shuffler | sb who goes to great trouble to look busy but is probably not very productive |
| the gossip | a person who enjoys talking about other people's private lives |
| the stirrer | a person who likes causing trouble by spreading secrets |
| the workaholic | a person who works very hard and finds it difficult to stop working and do other things |
| the slave driver | a person who makes people work extremely hard, tyrant |
| the yes-man | a person who always agrees with people in authority in order to gain their approval |
| the techno-freak | a person who is obsessed with the latest technology |
| to apply for a job | to make a formal request, usually in writing |
| to land a job | to succeed in getting a job, contract etc that was difficult to get |
| to do/work overtime | time that you spend working in your job in addition to your normal working hours |
| maternity leave | time that a mother is allowed to spend away from work when she has a baby |
| to be away on sick leave | byc na zwolnieniu lekarskim |
| unemployment benefit | money paid regularly by the government to people who have no job |
| to work shifts | pracowac na zmiany |
| to be made redundant | zostac zwolnionym |
| to make/earn one's living | zarabiać na życie |
| unfair dismissal | nieuzasadnione zwolnienie z pracy |
| desk job | a job that involves working mostly at a desk in an office |
| full/part-time job | praca na pełen/pół etatu |
| permanent job | stała praca |
| trade union | an organization that represents workers- zwiazek zawodowy |
| incentive | something that encourages you to work harder, zacheta, premia, motywacja |
| to perform one's duties | to do something, esp sth difficult or useful [= carry out] wykonywac obowiazki |
| to be overworked | made to work too hard |
| to quit one's job | to leave a job, esp without finishing it completely |
| plant | fabryka, zakład |
| work to rule | to protest about a situation at work by doing your job slowly ->obey rules |
| go on the picket line | a line or group of pickets |
| go on strike | strajkowac |
| expel | to officially make sb leave a school or an organization |
| lay off | to stop employing someone because there is no work for them to do |
| perk | something that you get legally from your work in addition to your wages, as goods, meals, or a car |
| benefit | dodatek (np. do pensji) |
| bonus | money added to someone's wages, especially as a reward for good work |
| salary | money that employees receive for doing their job |
| profit | the money that you make in business or by selling things, -zysk |
| wage | a regular amount of money that you earn, usually every week, for work-płaca,zarobki |
| trainee | a person who is being taught how to do a particular job |
| apprentice | someone who works for an employer for a fixed period of time in order to learn a particular skil |
| recruit | someone who has recently joined an organization, team, group |
| head office | the main office of a company |
| department | a section of a large organizatio |
| boardroom | a room in which the meetings of the board of a company / sala konferencyjna |
| overtime | time that you spend working in your job in addition to your normal working hours |
| flexi-time | ruchomy czas pracy |
| credentials | the qualities, training or experience that make you suitable to do sth/kwalifikacje, referenecje |
| references | a letter written by sb who knows you, giving information about your character and abilities, especia |
| applications | a formal (often written) request for sth, such as a job |
| workmate | a person that you work with |
| workload | the amount of work that has to be done, ilość pracy do wykonania |
| workplace | miejsce pracy |
| workshop | pracownia, warsztat, warsztaty |
| workbench | a long heavy table used for doing practical jobs,- stop warsztatowy |
| workstation | the desk and computer at which a person works, stanowisko pracy |
| workhorse | a person, machine, or vehicle that does a lot of work, esp when it is hard or boring/wól roboczy |
| job satisfaction | satysfakcja z pracy |
| job title | tytul sluzbowy |
| job description | zakres obowiazkow |
| job market | rynek pracy |
| job hunter | poszukujący pracy |
| job centre | rządowe biuro pośrednictwa pracy |
| job prospects | perspektywy zatrudnienia |
| run sb's own business | prowadzić własny biznes |
| diverse (adj) | very different from each other and of various kinds |
| abode | the place where sb lives |
| rehearsal | time that is spent practising a play or piece of music in preparation for a public performance |
| choir | chór |
| add up | to produce a particular total or result |
| plasterer | tynkarz |
| haulier | przewoźnik |
| tipper | wywrotka |
| fire engine | wóz strażacki |
| rewarding | dający satysfakcję, satysfakcjonujący |
| faint | mdleć |
| envy | zazdrość |
| I have the patience of a saint | a very large amount of patience |
| unheard | that nobody pays attention to |
| arterial | tętniczy |
| venous | żylny |
| dead beat | very tired |
| inflamed | w stanie zapalnym |
| chopsticks | chińskie pałeczki |
| utensil | a tool that is used in the house |
| a recipe book | książka kucharska |
| hangover | kac |
| in the dim and distant past | dawno, dawno temu |
| scrubbing | szorujący, czyszczący |
| dung | odchody |
| a template | wzór, szablon to produce other similar examples |
| down a well earned pint | pić dobrze zarobione piwo? |
| greenhouse | szklarnia |
| spiky | z kolcami |
| splinter | odłamek, drzazga |
| chopping | siekający |
| sting | pieczenie, kłucie |
| go to the expense | to spend money on sth |
| telesales | a method of selling things and taking orders for sales by telephone |
| yellow pages | książka telefoniczna |
| lingerie | women's underwear |
| civil service | the government departments in a country, except the armed forces, and the people who work for them |
| maggot | larwa/a creature like a small short worm, is young form of a fly and is found in decaying meat |
| stench | a strong, very unpleasant smell |
| appalling | shocking; extremely bad |
| buff | a person who is very interested in a particular subject or activity and knows a lot /zapaleniec |
| in seventh heaven | w siodmym niebie |
| clairvoyant | jasnowidz |
| candyfloss | wata cukrowa |
| spun sugar | wata cukrowa |
| nostrils | nozdrza |
| daunting | to make sb feel nervous and less confident about doing sth |
| civvy street | życie w cywilu, ordinary life outside the armed forces |
| bridal shop | sklep dla panny młodej |
| brides-to-be tried | przymiarki przyszłej panny młodej |
| fluff | small pieces of wool, cotton, etc. that gather on clothes and other surfaces/klaczki, kurz |
| duster | ścierka do kurzu |
| take early retirement | retired at an earlier age than usual/ pojsc wczesniej na emeryture |
| temporary secondment/ be on secondment | a period of time that you spend away from your usual job, either doing another job or studying |
| relocation | przeniesienie |
| transferable skills | if you transfer it, it can be used in the new situation |
| update one's skills | develop skills |
| a glass ceiling | the attitudes and practices that prevent women or particular groups from getting high level jobs |
| opportunity for advancement | progress or development in your job, level of knowledge postep/awans |
| corporate culture | the way that people in a corporation think and behave/kultura firmy |
| red tape | official rules that seem unnecessary, zbyt rozbudowana biurokracja |
| personal development | improvements in your character and skills |
| training | the process of teaching or being taught the skills for a particular job or activity/szkolenie, |
| job mobility | mobilnosc zawodowa na rynku pracy |
| staff turnover | rotacja pracownikow, the rate at which people leave an organization and are replaced by others |
| clock in and clock out | to record the time you arrive at work on a special machine/~leave |
| to work flexi time/ to be on flexi time | elastyczny czas pracy |
| a pecking-order | hierarchia ważności/each member knows who has a higher or lower rank |
| to talk shop | talk about their work when there are people present who are not interested or involved-disapproval |
| to job share/ job-sharing | an arrangement by which two people both work part-time doing the same job |
| hierarchical (adj) | people or things are divided into levels of importance |
| mechanical | involving machine/a mechanical action, reply etc is done without thinking |
| repetitive | done many times in the same way, and boring |
| monotonous | boring because of always being the same |
| a day/night shift | dzienna/ nocna zmiana |
| to knock off | to stop working and go somewhere else |
| to be stuck behind a desk | utknąć za biurkiem |
| stress levels | poziom stresu |
| a dead-end job | a job with low wages and no chance of progress |
| benefits/ benefits package | pakiet świadczeń socjalnych (in addition to money) |
| allowance; food/fuel allowance; relocation allowance | dodatki na jedzenie, benzyne, zagospodarowanie się |
| company pension scheme | plan emerytalny/ one that your employer pays |
| private/personal pension | one that is run by a private pension company, not by the government or your employer |
| government pension | emerytura wypłacana przez rząd |
| expenses; travel/ traveling expenses | the amount of money that you spend on something |
| holiday entitlement; be entitled to | the official right to have or do something, or money/prawo, byc uprawnionym do |
| comprehensive healthcare provision | pełne świadcznenie opieki zdrowotnej |
| subsidized canteen | f a government or organization subsidizes a company, activity etc, it pays part of its costs |
| performance-related bonus scheme | money that you earn for your work, which is increased if you do your work very well |
| accountable | responsible for the effects of your actions and willing to explain or be criticized for them |
| insight into | an understanding of what sth is like/ wgląd, wyobrażenie |
| lucrative | a job or activity that is lucrative lets you earn a lot of money [= profitable]/dochodowy, oplacalny |
| solely | not involving anything or anyone else [= only] |
| to juggle | to try to fit two or more jobs, activities etc / pogodzic |
| guaranteed | gwarantowany/promise to do something or to promise that something will happen |
| encounter | =experience. napotkac/zmierzyc sie. to experience something, especially problems or opposition |
| encroach upon | wedrzec sie/to begin to affect or use up too much of sb's time, rights, personal life, etc. |
| freelance worker | = be own boss |
| amount of stress | = degree |
| insight into | = understanding |
| juggle | = to balance |
| pros and cons | = advantages and disadvantages |
| common goal | = share the same aim wspólny cel |
| morale | the level of confidence and positive feelings that people have, especially people who work together |
| foster team spirit | encourage, promote ducha współpracy |
| collaboration | współpraca/ work together with another person or group to achieve something |
| mutual | wzajemny |
| fulfilling | = rewarding, dający satyskacje |
| valued | ceniony, |
| pooling | to combine skills |
| fit in | pasować, wpasować się |
| disruptive | zakłócający spokój/ causing problems and preventing something from continuing in its usual way |
| undermine | osłabiać pracę. to gradually make someone or something less strong or effective |
| stifle | spowalniać, tłumić. to stop something from happening or developing/ |
| enterprise | przedsięwzięcie, przedsiębiorstwo |
| initiative | inicjatywa |
| job | the regular paid work that you do for an employer |
| labour | to work hard |
| to toll | dzwonić |
| union | związek |
| dismiss | zwolnić kogoś z pracy |
| depose | dymisjonowac ze stanowsika |
| to get across | = communicate/ to succeed in communicating an idea or piece of information to someone |
| to work off | = eliminate |
| to work into | = fit into |
| to get around | = overcome |
| to work up | = cause to be upset |
| meet a deadline | have to finish on time |
| antisocial | aspołeczny,behaviour-violent or harmful to others, or shows that you do not care about other people |
| day shift | dzienna zmiana |
| irregular | not happening at times that are an equal distance from each other |
| glamorous | attractive, exciting, and related to wealth and success |
| night shift | nocna zmiana |
| fixed hours | sztywne, niezmienne godziny pracy |
| stuck in a rut | popaść w rutynę |
| freelance/ work freelance | niezależny, pracujący na własny rachunek |
| to beaver away at something | to work very hard, especially at writing or calculating something |
| keep one's mind on the job | keep paying attention to |
| mean business | to be determined to do something |
| make end meet | wiązać koniec z końcem |
| get something off the ground | start to be successful |
| be someone's right-hand man | the person who supports and helps you the most, especially in your job |
| call the shots | wydawac rozkazy/to be authority so that you give orders and make decisions |
| have time one one's hands | not have enough to do/ nie miec co robic |
| keep one's nose to the grindstone | to work very hard, without stopping to rest |
| be an inside job | done by someone who works for the company where the crime happens |
| on the verge of | = about to do/ happen |
| on offer unemployment | = available |
| on the basis of | = due to |
| on the dole | = receiving unemployment benefit |
| on the level | = honest |
| on hold | = waiting |
| on a roll | = winning |
| on and on | = continuously |
| on and off | = intermittently (nieregularnie) |
| on demand | = when needed |
| entrepreneur | przedsiębiorca |
| recount | opowiadać szczegółowo |
| wisdom | mądrość, rozsądek |
| co-founder | współzałożyciel |
| chore | obowiązek (nieprzyjemna praca) |
| haul | ciągnąć, holowac |
| acquire qualifications | nabywac kwalifikacje |
| define your interests | określać, sprecyzować swoje zainteresowania |
| employ-employer | zatrudniać, pracodawca |
| economy-economic | gospodarka |
| economics | ekonomia |
| kick in | to start or to begin to have an effect/ zaczac dzialac |
| struggle | borykać się, zmagać, walczyć |
| engineer-engineering | inżynier, inżynieria |
| short-shortage of | brak, niedobór, deficyt |
| confederate/ confederation | wspolnik/ konfederacja |
| vocation-vocational | zawód, zawodowy/ vocational qualifications |
| concern- concerned | dotyczyć |
| private sectors | sektor prywatny |
| recruitment-recruit | rekrutacja, rekrutować |
| recover-recovery | wyzdrowieć |
| intense-intensify | intensywny, nasilić |
| A-level skills | advanced level skills |
| particular-particularly | szczegolny |
| sought after | wanted by a lot of people but rare or difficult to get |
| govern-government | rządzić-rząd |
| prioritise-priority | traktować priorytetowo, priorytet |
| top priority | najwyższy priorytet |
| respond-respondents | odpowiadac, osoba odpowiadajaca |
| funding | money that is provided by an organization for a particular purpose |
| high-higher | wyzszy |
| capability-capable | zdolność, zdolny |
| major-majority | ważny, główny, większość |
| to ensure | to make certain that something will happen properly [= make sure] |
| success-succeed | odnieść sukces |
| literate- literacy | umiejący pisać i czytać, umiejętność pisania i czytania, |
| numerate-numeracy | potrafiący liczyć, umiejętność liczenia |
| raise-raising | podnosić, podnoszenie |
| rate | wskaźnik |
| less-least | mniej, najmniej |
| relation-related | relacja, powiązany |
| start, starting | początkowy |
| high, highest | wysoki, najwyższy |
| on average | przeciętnie |
| need-needed | potrzebować, potrzebny |
| attract-attractive | przyciągac, atrakcyjny |
| execute, executive | wykonywać, osoby zarządzające |
| competition, compete | konkurs, konkurować |
| highlighted | podkreślony |
| worried, worries | zmartwiony, |
| worry about | martwić o coś |
| literacy and numeracy skills | umiejętność pisania, liczenia |
| reporter-reported | reporter, poinformowany? |
| down-downturn | obniżać, schyłek, spadek |
| spend-spending | wydawać, wydatki |
| remedy, remedial | leczyć, leczniczy |
| school-leaving, school-leavers | odejście, opuszczający szkołę, absolwent |
| thriving | very successful |
| to spring up | to suddenly appear or start to exis |
| switching | to change from doing thing to doing another |
| internship | a job that lasts for a short time, that especially a student, to gain experience |
| trademarked | oznaczony znakiem handlowym |
| mature | someone who behaves in a sensible and reasonable way |
| prove sb's value | udowodnić czyjąć wartość |
| bring back | to take something or someone with you when you come back from somewhere |
| workforce | siła robocza |
| eligible | someone is able or allowed to do it |
| trial period | okres próbny |
| intern | someone, especially a student, who works for a short time in a particular job in order to gain exp |
| get the chance to | have opportunity |
| enlightened | oświecony |
| rare | rzadki |
| recruit | nowy członek, rekrut |
| spousal | done by person's husband or wife |
| relocation | to move to a new place |
| screening | poddający kontroli |
| skim | remove, z powierzchni |
| ultimate | main and most important/ ostateczny, najwyższy |
| meaningful | serious and important |
| sample | a small part or amount of something that is examined to find out something about the whole/ próbka |
| hold appeal | to have a particular quality |
| folks | people |
| hiatus | a pause in activity when nothing happens |
| tryout | an act of testing how good or effective sb/ sth is before deciding whether to use them in the future |
| shot | a remark or an action/ strzał, okazja, szansa |
| to land a job | to succeed in getting a job |
| to launch | to start something, usually something big or important |
| testimonial | list polecający/a formal written statement describing someone's character and abilities/ |
| keep up with | byc na bieżąco/to continue to read and learn about a particular subject |
| child-rearing years | lata w czasie ktorych sie wychowuje dzieci |
| give sb's an edge | get an advantage |
| lesser | mniejszy, niższy |
| assignment | a task or piece of work that sb is given to do, usually as part of their job or studies |
| encore | additional |
| gear at | make, prepare |
| pace | krok |
| bridge job | is a temporary position that you might take at the end of a full-time in transition to different |
| championed | to fight for or speak in support of a group of people or a belief |
| highlight | to emphasize sth |
| stint | czas spędzony na pracy/a period of time spent doing a particular job or activity |
| report | a written or spoken description of a situation or event, giving people the information they need |
| tough | difficult |
| figure | think |
| open a door | to make an opportunity for something to happen |
| testimonials | references = |
| stint | working period= |
| ultimate | final= |
| to highlight | to emphasize = |
| flourishing | thriving = |
| to launch | to start = |
| to land | to get (when it was difficult to get) |
| assignment | a task = |
| rigidly | adj- strict, difficult |
| make up | zmyślać |
| seasoned homeworkers | doświadczone osoby pracujące w domu |
| focused self-starters | skoncentrowany able to work successfully on their own without needing other people's help |
| dismissed | zwolniony |
| indolent | leniwy |
| flaky | ciężko kojarzący |
| loner-weirdo | samotny dziwak |
| drone | a person who is lazy and gives nothing to society while others work |
| to bitch about | to make unkind and critical remarks about sb/ sth |
| commute | dojazd do pracy |
| to fume | wściekać się, kipieć ze złości |
| sob | łkać, szlochać |
| admittedly | wprawdzie, co prawda |
| a blow | cios, an action or event that causes difficulty or sadness for someone |
| to label | to use a word or phrase to describe someone or something, but often unfairly or incorrectly |
| skiver | obibok/sb who avoid working |
| take the flak | to receive strong criticism |
| cope with | radzić sobie z czymś |
| mockery | kpina, szyderstwo |
| avalanche | lawina |
| blurring | rozmyty |
| misanthropic (adj) | someone who does not like other people and prefers to be alone |
| downside | the negative part or disadvantage of something |
| outfit | a set of clothes worn together |
| startled | someone suddenly surprised or slightly shocked |
| impersonate | naśladować/to pretend to be someone else by copying their appearance, voice, and behavior, (deceiv |
| wary | czujny, ostrożny (n)? |
| quavering | drżący, voice quavers, it shakes as you speak |
| pathetic | żałosne, wzruszające, godne współczucia |
| verge on | zbliżać się do czegoś/ to be very close to a harmful or extreme state |
| encounter | napotkać, spotkać. to experience something, especially problems or opposition |
| suffice to say | wystatczy powiedzieć |
| discipline | dyscyplina, dziedzina |
| find out | odkryć |
| dysfunctional | zaburzony/ not following the normal patterns of social behaviour, |
| mind-set | nastawienie, sposob myslenia/someone's general attitude, and the way in which they think about thing |
| notion | pojęcie |
| undertake | podjąć się/ to accept that you are responsible for a piece of work, and start to do it |
| mess around | obijac sie/to spend time lazily, doing things slowly and in a way that is not planned |
| galing prejudice | annoying uprzedzenie |
| proper | właściwy, odpowiedni |
| evolve into | rozwinąć się |
| conscientious | sumienny/ careful to do everything that it is your job or duty to do |
| finding | the information that someone has discovered as a result of their study, work |
| presenteeism | a situation when people spend a lot of time at work, even if they are ill or could take a holiday, |
| torture | meczyc, dreczyc |
| outperform | przewyższać/ to be more successful than someone or something else |
| oversensitive | easily upset or offended/ nadwrażliwy |
| imaginary | not real, but produced from pictures or ideas in your mind |
| miss out on | stracić okazję/ to not have the chance to do something that you enjoy and that would be good for y |
| mental | umysłowy, psychiczny |
| to nag | zrzędzić, dręczyć/ to keep asking someone to do something, or to keep complaining to someone |
| to fashion | to shape or make something/ kształtować |
| brand | a type of product made by a particular company |
| carry on | to continue doing something |
| commute | to regularly travel a long distance to get to work |
| self-important(ly) | posiadający wysokie mniemanie o sobie, zarozumiały (o osobie), zadufany w sobie |
| frustrated with | feeling annoyed, upset, and impatient |
| child-friendly | przyjazny dzieciom |
| state | państwowy |
| give birth | rodzić |
| savings | oszczędności |
| take out loan | borrow money |
| interior | wnętrze |
| pre-school | przedszkolny (wiek), relating to the time in a child's life before they are old enough to go to scho |
| take off | to suddenly start being successful |
| order | zamówienie |
| newborn | nowo narodzony |
| pattern | wzór |
| mean for | to intend to do something |
| sight problems | problemy ze wzrokiem |
| breastfeeding | karmienie piersia |
| flexible | elastyczny |
| start business | set up business |
| turn into | go in new direction |
| regarding | jeśli chodzi o, co się tyczy, odnośnie, względem |
| productive | produktywny, wydajny |
| bore | make bored |
| a trailblazer | pomyslodawca/someone who is the first to discover or develop new methods |