Paid Job

A paid job is a work task where an employer promises a wage payment to a paid worker.

• AKA: Wage-based Job, Occupation, Employment.
• Context:
  • It can (typically) have a Job Title, Job Purpose, Job Duty.
  • It can (typically) be characterized by a Job Category.
  • It can (typically) have a Job Requirement, such as Heavy Lifting Skill, Fine Finger Control, Literacy, Numeracy, ...)
  • It can (typically) be a member of a Job Population.
  • It can (often) be described by a Job Description.
  • It can (often) be associated with an Employment Contract (where the legal consideration is a wage).
  • It can be categorized into a Job Type, and Organizational Job Family.
  • It can range from being a Full-Time Job to being a Part-Time Job (gig job).
  • It can range from being a Long-Term Job to being a Short-Term Job (such as temporary work and freelance contracts).
  • It can range from being an Occupied Job to being a Vacant Job to being a Destroyed Job.
  • It can range from being a Proficiency Job to being a Pivotal Job (depending on whether outcomes cannot be improved by additional skill).
  • It can range from being a Low-Skill Job to being a Medium-Skill Job to being a High-Skill Job.
  • It can range from being a Low-Pay Job to being a Average-Pay Job to being a High-Pay Job.
  • It can range from being a Well-Defined Job to being an Ill-Defined Job (such as a creative job).
  • It can range from being a Meaningless Job to being a Meaningful Job.
  • It can range from being an Entry-Level Job to being a Middle Job to being an Senior Job.
  • It can range from being an Existing Job, to being an Extinct Job, to being a Predicted Job.
  • It can range from being a Job for a Private Individual Job to being an Job for an Organization.
  • It can range from being a U.S. Job, Canadian Job, Chinese Job, ...
  • ...
• Example(s):
  • Low-Skill Jobs, such as Retail Selling, Cashiering, Fast-Food Preping, and Office Clerking.
  • Medium-Skill Jobs, such as Registered Nursing, School Teaching.
  • High-Skill Jobs, such as Researching, Legal Counseling, Medical Practice, Software Programmer Job.
  • a Knowledge Worker Job
  • a Digital Artist.
  • a Statistics Job (by a statistics practitioner).
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Volunteer Job.
  • an Unpaid Job.
  • a Hobby Choice.
  • a Computer System Job.
  • a Work Slave.
• See: Labor Market, Entrepreneur, Freelancer, Wage Labor, Skill-Requiring Task.

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References

2021

• (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/occupation Retrieved:2021-3-23.
  • Occupation commonly refers to:
    • Career, a course through life
    • Employment, a relationship wherein a person serves of another by hire
    • Job (disambiguation)

2016

• https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2016/10/building-the-linkedin-knowledge-graph
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2016

• Justin Rowlatt. (2016). “The Opium Farmers with the Police on Their Side.” In: BBC News
  • QUOTE: He saw me taste the drug. “Don't do that. That stuff is very bad for you," he says. “Haven't you ever been tempted to try it?" I want to know. “I know that if I start using it, I'll get addicted and my future will be destroyed. The people who use it - I've seen them in the cities lying down, their family life is destroyed, their children don't go to school," he tells me. “But you're helping produce the stuff. Don't you feel guilty?" I ask. I'm not surprised by his answer. “I've got no choice," he says. “I've got no job and you get good money with the opium."

2015

• http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/06/gigs-with-benefits
  • QUOTE: … We hear a lot these days about the gig economy, but the issue of whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor has been the subject of intense legal battles for decades. The distinction can be surprisingly hard to make. The I.R.S. has a list of twenty factors that it takes into account, but other federal agencies have different criteria, as do most states. The fundamental issue is usually whether an employer has “control” over the work being done, but defining control isn’t always easy.

2014

• http://www.bls.gov/ooh/
  • This is a guide to career information about hundreds of occupations!

2013

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_%28role%29#Types_of_jobs
  • There are a variety of jobs: full time, part time, temporary, odd jobs, seasonal, self-employment.

    People may have a chosen occupation for which they have received training or an degree.

    Those who do not hold down a steady job may do odd jobs or be unemployed.

     Moonlighting is the practice of holding an additional job or jobs, often at night, in addition to one's main job, usually to earn extra income. A person who moonlights may have little time left for sleep or leisure activities.

2010

• (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=occupation
  • S: (n) occupation, business, job, line of work, line (the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money) "he's not in my line of business"
  • S: (n) occupation, military control (the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power)
  • S: (n) occupation (any activity that occupies a person's attention) "he missed the bell in his occupation with the computer game"
  • S: (n) occupation, occupancy, moving in (the act of occupying or taking possession of a building) "occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal"
  • S: (n) occupation (the period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied) "during the German occupation of Paris"
• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/occupation
  • An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid.
  • The act, process or state of possessing a place.
  • The control of a country or region by a hostile army.

2009

• http://www.bls.gov/bls/glossary.htm#O
  • QUOTE:Occupation: A set of activities or tasks that employees are paid to perform. Employees that perform essentially the same tasks are in the same occupation, whether or not they work in the same industry. Some occupations are concentrated in a few particular industries; other occupations are found in many industries. (See Industry.)
• (Kalleberg, 2009) ⇒ Arne L Kalleberg. (2009). “Precarious Work, Insecure Workers: Employment Relations in Transition.” In: American Sociological Review, 74. doi:10.1177/000312240907400101
  • QUOTE: I concentrate in this address on employment, which is work that produces earnings (or profit, if one is self-employed). Equating work with pay or profit is of course a limited view, as there are many activities that create value but are unpaid, such as those that take place in the household. Given my focus largely on industrial countries, particularly the United States, I emphasize precarious employment in the formal economy.

2004

• (Cahuc & Zylberberg, 2004) ⇒ Pierre Cahuc, and André Zylberberg. (2004). “Labor Economics." MIT Press. ISBN:9780262033169
  • QUOTE: To hold a paid job, you must first have decided to do so. This is the starting point of the so-called "neoclassical" theory of the labor supply. It posits that each individual disposes of a limited amount of time, which he or she chooses to allocate between paid work and leisure. Evidently the wage an individual can demand constitutes an important factor in the choice of the quality of labor supplied. …

    … According to the neoclassical theory of labor supply, every individual trades off between consuming a good and consuming leisure. The supply of individual labor is positive if the current wage exceeds the reservation wage, which depends on preferences and non-wage income. If labor supply is positive, the marginal rate of substitution between consumption and leisure is equal to the hourly wage.

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