job

“It might be giving a pitch or giving a talk like this or doing a job interview.”

“So you were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid, things you liked, on the grounds you would never get a job doing that.”

“I could not believe I had pledged allegiance to research, where our job -- you know, the definition of research is to control and predict, to study phenomena for the explicit reason”