Finally, conservatives should consider comprehensive immigration reform that would allow skilled and unskilled workers to seek their American dream while granting parole, not amnesty, to those hard-working migrants now here illegally.

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They hired workers to join them in making this dream a reality.

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While there are certainly highly-skilled and in-demand professionals who are able to parlay their hired-gun status into big paydays or renaissance workers who are mashing up day jobs and dream jobs, those who benefit financially from the gig economy are in the minority.

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In September, a selection of young workers gave their advice on how to get a dream job.

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Mr. Knecht, the author of two earlier books about sailing and a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, follows the lives of a few of these workers and craftsmen as they labor on the Von Allmens' dream.

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Beyond their work and their stained uniforms, these workers wanted their children to graduate from college and to attain the American dream.

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Ordinary Americans with a dream to start their own business, they create most of the jobs that keep our workers employed.

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Smaller crews of more highly trained workers who can switch jobs with ease, as the research engineers upstream of them dream up new ways to manufacture products using fewer raw materials and less labor.

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In Asia, only Vietnamese workers are less satisfied with their jobs, with 48 percent saying they are working their dream gig, putting them in last place for job satisfaction on a list of 22 Asian economies.

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