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  2. Side job - Wikipedia

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    A side job can be a full-time job, part-time contract, or freelance work, and a person can hold more than one side job. [2] Side jobs gained in popularity in the U.S. because of wage stagnation and low wage growth that has not kept up with the rise in cost of living, with nearly a third of people with side jobs requiring them to pay expenses. [3]

  3. List of obsolete occupations - Wikipedia

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    Attitudes to domestic work changed in the late 19th century as other employment opportunities arose. [7]: 171 As domestic staffs shrank, the cook would often be retained at the expense of the kitchen maid. Econom: 14: 20: Knocker-up: A knocker-up's job was to rouse sleeping people so they could get to work on time.

  4. Dictionary of Occupational Titles - Wikipedia

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    Although the DOT was deemed obsolete and then abandoned by the Employment Service and the Department of Labor, the data from the 1991 revised fourth edition of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles is used extensively at the Social Security Administration (SSA) in litigation related to applications for Social Security disability benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for adult claimants.

  5. Direct, indirect, and induced employment - Wikipedia

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    A direct job is employment created to fulfill the demand for a product or service. [1] An indirect job is a job that exists to produce the goods and services needed by the workers with direct jobs. [1] [2] Indirect employment includes the things need direct on the job as well as jobs produced because of the worker's needs (e.g., uniforms).

  6. Job enlargement - Wikipedia

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    Job enlargement involves combining various activities at the same level in the organization and adding them to the existing job. It is also called the horizontal expansion of job activities. This contradicts the principles of specialisation and the division of labour whereby work is divided into small units, each of which is performed ...

  7. List of railway industry occupations - Wikipedia

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    A railroad section gang — including common workers sometimes called gandy dancers — responsible for maintenance of a particular section of railway.One man is holding a bar, while others are using rail tongs to position a rail.

  8. Stock market turns green after the open as jobs report keeps ...

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    The executive order also creates a U.S. digital asset stockpile of other confiscated crypto, managed by the Treasury Department. Bitcoin was last up 1.12% at $90,978.25, above the key, round level ...

  9. Aptronym - Wikipedia

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    The Encyclopædia Britannica says that the term was allegedly invented by a columnist Franklin P. Adams, who coined the word "aptronym" as an anagram of patronym, to emphasize "apt". [4] The Oxford English Dictionary reported that the word appeared in a Funk & Wagnall’s dictionary in 1921, defined as "a surname indicative of an occupation: as ...