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Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage th...

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Thomas SowellBasic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

Here was one more difficulty for him to meet and conquer.

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire li...

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When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in ot...

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Alain de BottonThe Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

And that brings me to one last point. I've got a simple message for all the dedicated and patriotic ...

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The most important thing you need to do [in this job] is to have big chunks of time during the day w...

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This advice comes as a surprise: job searching is not joblessness; it is a job in itself and should ...

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Barbara EhrenreichBait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarce...

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Making money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life...

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The other patrollers were boys and men of bad character; the work attracted a type. In another count...

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There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one i...

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Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man...

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Dorothy L. SayersAre Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed.The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moi...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY...

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Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Chur...

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There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or o...

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She handled it (her trade) with all the grace that belongs to mastery.

An enlightened man had but one duty--to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope ...

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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a...

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Ian FlemingFrom Russia With Love

This social worker lassie turns round n gies us a stroppy look. Ah jist smiles bit she looked away a...

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Wherever the shadow of economic growth touches us, we are left useless unless employed on a job or e...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earn...

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Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.

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John DerbyshireWe Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

I’m a firm believer that most people who do great things are doing them for the first time. Returnin...

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There are stories — legends, really — of the “steady job.” Old-timers gather graduates around the fl...

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Last month we had to sit through a presentation on eliminating redundancy, and it was a bunch of Pow...

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Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian ascet...

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For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desir...

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Milton FriedmanFree to Choose: A Personal Statement

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking...

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Rand had changed a number of laws in Tear, especially those that weighed heavily on the poor, but he...

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A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots...

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I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly-line worker, ...

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Studs TerkelWorking: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door...

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