Amazon offers employees up to £8,000 for education and training, like Juliet.

She's now a trained technician.

And to her, the sound of machinery in need of repair, reminds her of how far she's come.

In two years, she's landed her dream job, providing her with valuable skills.

That's up to £8,000 for education and training at Amazon.

Eligibility conditions apply.

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This is On Point. I'm Megna Chakra Bardi, and it is on point.

I'm Megna Chakra-Bardi, and it is Monday.

So I feel like kicking off the week with a little bit of a thought experiment. Okay, so engage with me for just a moment here.

Imagine that you are an extraterrestrial intelligence.

Okay, I'm going there.

I'm using aliens in this thought experiment.

So you're a very, very far away extraterrestrial intelligence.

And you're that species version of an anthropologist, and you have been studying across the galaxies. This one beautiful,

belligerent, utterly unsophisticated and unevolved, yet somehow magnetically interesting species

that resides on the third planet from the star in what that species calls the solar system.

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