The difference between work and Work

[Questioner]

"work" is simply a dime-a-dozen, hideous, and easily replacable, meaningless, or expendiable job, as lesser educated ambitious, or creative men and women have always had to settle for today and yesterday for lack of willingness or aptitude for anything else...

"Work" is a meaningful, professional, and intellectual career or life pursuit. Whether one references Marie Curie, Benjamin Franklin, or anyone else, male or female.

I believe this summarizes the differences pretty well, everything else being excepted.

 

[Ringel05]

"work" is simply a dime-a-dozen, hideous, and easily replacable, meaningless, or expendiable job, as lesser educated ambitious, or creative men and women have always had to settle for today and yesterday for lack of willingness or aptitude for anything else...

"Work" is a meaningful, professional, and intellectual career or life pursuit. Whether one references Marie Curie, Benjamin Franklin, or anyone else, male or female.

I believe this summarizes the differences pretty well, everything else being excepted.

So I take it you're a worker as opposed to a Worker. Got it.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

I will have a job opening available in March in case you are interested.

 

[petro]

So, someone who builds your house, having to have the knowledge of multiple housing and structural codes and have a grasp of engineering to put design plans into an actual structure is just a worker. The guy who repairs our increasingly complex vehicles is just a worker. The plumber or electrician, who all have skills most "intellectuals" lack are merely just worker bees.
Yet, the mighty intellectual, who produces nothing tangible but instead a collection of opinions disguised as higher thought, Works.

The intellectual that can't figure how to start a simple lawnmower, really isn't all that smart.

 

[whitehall]

Sounds like a work snob to me.

 

[DGS49]

How about this: The difference between a Real Job and everything else is, a Real Job is working in a private enterprise that produces valuable things or services in the hope of earning a profit. Everything else is bullshit.

A brief list of bullshit "jobs":

• working for the government (excluding uniformed public servants),
• being a consultant,
• working for a "think tank,"
• working for a charity or foundation (unless you are one of the 10% who actually do something to help people in need),
• being an "administrator,"
• working for a college or university (unless you are a teacher in the STEM subjects),
• being a politician,
• "public interest" lawyers, and finally, although this is technically part of the first bullet above,
• being a public school teacher.

If the vote were confined to people who have Real Jobs, there would be no Democrat party. No one left.

 

[Bo Didleysquat]

"work" is simply a dime-a-dozen, hideous, and easily replacable, meaningless, or expendiable job, as lesser educated ambitious, or creative men and women have always had to settle for today and yesterday for lack of willingness or aptitude for anything else...

"Work" is a meaningful, professional, and intellectual career or life pursuit. Whether one references Marie Curie, Benjamin Franklin, or anyone else, male or female.

I believe this summarizes the differences pretty well, everything else being excepted.

As long as one can exploit the other, we're all good here, the rationales will come and go.

 

[Bo Didleysquat]

How about this: The difference between a Real Job and everything else is, a Real Job is working in a private enterprise that produces valuable things or services in the hope of earning a profit. Everything else is bullshit.

A brief list of bullshit "jobs":

• working for the government (excluding uniformed public servants),
• being a consultant,
• working for a "think tank,"
• working for a charity or foundation (unless you are one of the 10% who actually do something to help people in need),
• being an "administrator,"
• working for a college or university (unless you are a teacher in the STEM subjects),
• being a politician,
• "public interest" lawyers, and finally, although this is technically part of the first bullet above,
• being a public school teacher.

If the vote were confined to people who have Real Jobs, there would be no Democrat party. No one left.

America was never really about the "for all" bit anyway.