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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Extended vacation Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 7:10 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	BY MARK BROWN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST I had a real job once. Or should I say I once had a job where I did real work--wore a hard hat and got real dirty and everything. The job had its good points, but overall I didn't like it much. The best part of the job was that it convinced me to stay in college and become a newspaper writer. Writing for a newspaper probably qualifies as a real job, although I occasionally need to remind myself that it doesn't qualify as real work. This reminder is especially important on the weeks I return from vacation, when I'd rather not, such as this one.<p>***Tell you what, Mark. Stay out a few more days, till you're ready to write something worth running.***
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KfitzR	Post subject: Re: Extended vacation Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2002 12:24 pm
Joined: Thu Apr 18, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 836 Location: New Brunswick, Canada	According to my Oxford: "real" - actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact, objective, genuine, rightly so called, natural, sincerely, not merely apparent or nominal or supposed or pretended or artificial or hypcritical or affected... "job" - piece of work, esp. one done for hire or profit...paid position of employment.... I certainly have met my share of artificial, hypocritical and affected PEOPLE in the writing business, but the job is real enough.
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