Potential Titles: Employment [category]

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Apprentice:
And apprenticed myself to the fear - Maggie Smith "What I Carried"

Benefit.

Career.

Contract.

Earn.

Employ.

Furlough:
In furloughs of divine escapes - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Hire/Hireling.

Job.

Labor/Labour.

Overtime:
The devil works overtime - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"

Paycheck:
leap tall buildings on a single paycheck - Gerald L. Coleman "Age of Villains" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]

Payday:
Sinatra always plays on payday - Angela Liu "Dow Jones Dream"

Adds water to the soup until payday - Brad Aaron Modlin "One Candle Now, Then Seven More"

Rent due & payday missing - Jose Olivarez "Maybach Music (with a sample from Paul Wall)"

Lend it to you like a payday loan - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"

Pension:
Win the drifting pension of dust - Maxwell Bodenheim "The Incurable Mystic Answers Western Ambitions"

A pensioner of sea and cloud - Jeannette Marks "The Wanderer"

and retired without a pension - Chaun Webster "[by way of entry you sit with an object]"

Per Diem:
I organize on vinyl and per diems - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Resume:
A resume of thin successes - Julia Alvarez "Lunch Hour, 1971"

Stipend:
In love with a meager stipend - Su Tung-p'o "New Year's Eve" transl. by Burton Watson

Vocation:
A vocation of anger - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

Burnishes her prized vocations - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

Wage.

Work.


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