After all, they did a dull, routine job that was carefully scripted in advance.

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To them, a job is any routine activity for which we earn income paid by an entity required to earn a profit .

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If we defined a job as any routine activity for which we earn income paid by an entity whose activities are socially valuable, then we would most certainly be excluding things done by BOTH the private and public sectors.

FORBES: Of Course the Government Can Create Jobs!

Since 1984, he has looked after Polish pilgrims visiting the Vatican, a job that gave him routine access to the pope's household.

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The scheme is aimed at getting people into a working routine if they need an additional "push" to find a job.

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In 2008, Cirque offered him the job, which involves a routine atop what looks like sinking house, plus warming up the audience.

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To show this, start with a relatively neutral definition of job: any routine activity for which we earn income.

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David Autor, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), points out that the main effect of automation in the computer era is not that it destroys blue-collar jobs but that it destroys any job that can be reduced to a routine.

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In Silicon Valley, sacking the boss has become so routine that some firms find that they spend longer looking for a chief executive than the new boss does in the job.

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