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I have a Question -> Response exercise in my textbook. The context is a job
interview at a convenience store. I think the meaning is "why do you want this
job?" but the way the Japanese is worded seems odd to me.

Can somebody translate this for me please?

> こちらでアルバイトを したい思った理由は 何ですか。

It is したい思った which is confusing to me. "want to have thought"?
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したい思った? What is this odd construct?
たい is modifying する not 思う in this sentence, so したいと思う means "think you want to
do", not "want to think you do".

> こちらでアルバイトをする -> do part-time work here.  
>  こちらでアルバイトをしたい -> want to do part-time work here.  
>  こちらでアルバイトをしたいと思った -> think you want to do part-time work here.  
>  こちらでアルバイトをしたいと思った理由は -> the reason you think you want to do part-time work
> here  
>  こちらでアルバイトをしたいと思った理由は何ですか -> What's the reason you think you want to do
> part-time work here?

Why it uses 思った rather than 思う is something I don't quite understand though.
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> こちらでアルバイトを したいと思った理由は 何ですか。  
>  What's the reason you think you want to do a part-time job here?

  * The job interviewer (A) is asking the reason from the job interviewee (B), not asking what B wants to do, because A already knows that B wants to do a part-time job here. 
  * Why does A know B's intention already? Because, A has got B's application for the job already. 
  * When did B think he wanted to do a part-time job here? Before submitting the application for the job. 
  * Then B thought of the part-time job **in the past** , so the phrase アルバイトをしたいと **思った** is used instead of アルバイトをしたいと **思う**. 

**That's why the tense differs between English and 日本語｛にほんご｝.**
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