Hello,

I found an interview on youtube with a girl that has become a train driver. I would like to use it in class and made a transcription, but I had a hard time with her accent.

Would you be so kind to proofread that, correct it and fill in the last missing blanks? That would be great. Here's the link (3 minutes): http://youtu.be/f8KK_aY5cz4

And this is my text:

My name is Eva Brodie, I’m a train driver for ScotRail. When things go wrong, you have to communicate with people, that’s when really the pressure starts to tell and you have to do things, you know, right. Obviously you’ve got to bear in mind that you’ve got maybe three – four hundred passengers that you are ferrying around so you’ve got to do everything to the best that you can do.

No, I’m probably not the average typical train driver: I’m not quite like that about the job. Mostly the reaction you get from people is really good, it’s positive. I can’t say that becoming a train driver is something I always wanted to do. Probably I ... lots of influence from friends that encouraged me to go into the job.

When I was at school probably I was more interested in the science subjects, maybe maths and chemistry and geography, and I wasn’t overly great at the arty subjects, you know English and things like that, definitely a science ..., that was my favourite.
I probably went through lots of different phases ... of different jobs, you know, I wanted to be a hair? Airforce? Or I wanted to be an archaeologist, it was so extreme, I hadn’t any sort of clear path in mind, there was nothing that was sort of jumping out at me at that point. I knew I wanted to go to university. I think the whole process of learning, you know, to go to university, that’s something that I wanted to continue. Obviously the social life was a good thing to get into as well. The time at university was great, I loved the subject that I studied, which was geography. And the friends that I made there are probably friends that I can keep for life.

My first LOBI? when I left university was to go and do further studies, do a postgraduate, but I had got a job, just working part time, temporary employment, maybe just getting used to have a bit money, maybe ... want a full time job. The first job I got when I left school eh when I left university was working in a factory that makes cash meal accessories and it was probably one of the most boring jobs I’ve ever had. I knew when I was in there I didn’t want to stay in there. I couldn’t have stayed in a job like that for, for ever, basically. I definitely wanted to go on and do something else.
Why did I decide to become a train driver? I have to blame my boy friend for that one. He was already on the railway and when the oppositions came up, and so he encouraged me to apply. Just fancied that’s something a bit different. Never been into this sort of stereotypical gedelee?! jobs, that was something that appeals to me, a different challenge, so ...

I think the next thing for me is to go to the instruction sites. I have recently started the driving instructor programme here where you get a trainee to come with you. Teaching, you know, new drivers isn’t something that I had thought about prior to starting the instructing, but I found I’ve really enjoyed it, and I would really like to go on and make more of it and make that a full time position rather than just a kind of part time, that’s what I just know.