joe job
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈdʒoʊ dʒɑb/
- Slang
:
trabajo de poca monta
- Many people feel stuck in a joe job before finding their real career.
Examples
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He feels stuck in a joe job with no future.
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After college, he had to take a joe job just to pay the rent.
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Tired of working a joe job, she decided to start her own business.
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Many people work joe jobs just to pay the bills.
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After graduating, he found himself stuck in a joe job that barely paid the bills.
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Many people settle for a joe job while they search for more fulfilling career opportunities.
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She left her joe job at the fast food restaurant to pursue her passion for art.
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'Joe' (a generic person) and 'job' (work or task) give no cue to an email-forgery attack; the term is specialized computing/journalistic jargon whose meaning (forged emails to discredit someone) is not derivable from the parts. This sense is idiomatic and domain-specific, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would not predict the MWE's meaning without prior exposure.
Etymology
Joe job may come from the idea of 'average Joe'—a plain, ordinary person—so a joe job is a simple, low-level job anyone could do. That's why it now means 'an unskilled or menial job'.