Salary / wages / fee / income / earnings / pay
High salary; Ant: low salary
Well-paid; Ant: badly-paid job
To make a living / to earn a living / to get by / to survive on
To live within or beyond one’s income
Earned (Ant: unearned) income
Bread-winner / wage-earner
To get a twenty-dollar salary rise
The salary is raised by 20 per cent
To make a profit / to be profitable to smb; Ant: unprofitable
To do smth for profit
To lose one’s earnings
Where do you work?
To occupy a post / position
To get / have / hold a position in / with a company
To appoint to the post of
To apply for the position of
To get promotion / to be promoted to
To recommend highly for promotion
Who are the people?
Employer, employee; head / chief / leader / boss / master
Chancellor / president
Headmaster, Headmistress, principal, the Director of Studies
Personnel director
Manager
Chairman
Slave-driver
High-flyer
Colleagues
Staff, executive, subordinate
Blue-collar, Ant: white-collar worker
What does the job involve?
Job responsibilities
Job description
To be in charge of / to be responsible for
To boss smb about / around
To assume / accept / take responsibility
To manage / to run / to direct / to handle
To deal / cope with problems
To deal in / trade in
To take part / to be engaged
To involve the use of languages
Opportunities to meet people
Manual job
Unskilled jobs
Your attitude to work
To pull one’s socks up
To be up to one’s eyes in work
Workaholic
To be committed to smth, smb
To keep one’s nose to the grindstone
To achieve / accomplish / complete / finish
To take up much time / energy / effort
To be an asset to the company
To learn by experience
Competent /efficient / skilled / trained / capable / experienced / qualified;
Ant: incompetent, inefficient, unskilled, incapable, inexperienced, unqualified
To be capable of doing smth
Fair to (on) smb / just to; Ant: unfair, unjust
Industrious / hard-working / diligent; Ant: lazy, idle
To be responsible for; Ant: irresponsible, negligent
Confident; Ant: uncertain, timid, shy
Self-confident, self-reliant
Decisive; Ant: indecisive (indecision)
To lack confidence in oneself
To be motivated by ambition
Job hopper
To get itchy feet
To rest on one’s laurels
To lie down / to go to sleep on one’s job
The Best Job
Demanding
Rewarding
Satisfying
Challenging
Varied; Ant: unvaried
Career prospects / opportunities
Job satisfaction
The main attraction of a job
Chances of promotion
Motivation to work hard
Good working conditions
To be under competent management
To do smth on one’s own responsibility
Fringe benefits / perks:
To reimburse travel expenses, sick pay, paid holiday, excellent pension plan / scheme
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