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"You got the job" "that's a very tough job" "my brother is looking for a job" "this job requires a lot of time and money to be invested in it" Job' this three lettered word is heard so many countless times in the span of a day, but one hardly bothers on pondering over the fact that what it actually means.
Though a job has various meanings, for example even a person's obligations are many a times referred to as his job like "it is your job to help your mother in the kitchen" or a happening or occurrence or something of a particular nature, done by a person like "to make the best of a bad job". Another definition is some group or individual project or assignment being worked upon like "the housing project was one long and costly job" similarly the way a task is executed is sometimes called a job like "she did a very decent job yesterday". In computers a job is a unit of work; it generally has an application program or group of related programs along with the data, links and commands needed by the operating system for running the programs.
A job in the most general definition is any kind of routine work taken up by an individual that he does for a vocation for a fixed pre-negotiated pay. Basically it is a post of employment. Such a job can be part time or full time.
A part time job is generally taken up as a source of extra income by people who are either too busy or not qualified for a full time vocation. Part time jobs generally involve basic skills that do not require professional training, only basic education or sometimes not even that. People who take up part time jobs are generally students, house wives or temporarily unemployed people. There are different types of part time jobs available nowadays the market has increased several folds because of the increasing trend of outsourcing among companies. Part time jobs can be on the site or from home too. On the site part time jobs or jobs requiring the physical presence of the employee can be of part time waiters, live show hosts, paid campaign volunteers, babysitters, part time cooks, a tuition teacher, a hobby teacher or even a part time nurse or assistant.
The jobs that can be done from home are mainly online jobs; these jobs include data entry, proof reading, online article writing, online journals and counselling. Such jobs can be done after college, or in the free time or during weekends, though the pay is not as high as a full time job but then even the work load is very less. These kinds of jobs help students in becoming self dependant and sharing their education expenses with their parents, especially students staying away from home. For housewives it is like extra pocket money and for lowly qualified people it is an easy source of income.
As far as full time jobs are concerned they require a certain amount of qualification or a very great deal of recognised talent and expertise. These jobs generally have screenings and interviews and are pursued after the completion of ones education on a full time basis.
