# job question...please read!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-question-please-read/368634>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 14, 2006, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-question-please-read/368634 "2006-08-14T05:34:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-question-please-read/368634/21 "2006-08-14T18:10:25Z")

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It seems to me that you would be more properly employed as a chimney sweep, or maybe a newsie.

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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-question-please-read/368634/22 "2006-08-14T18:22:51Z")

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[QUOTE=flurb]  
It seems to me that you would be more properly employed as a chimney sweep, or maybe a newsie.  
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Well, we haven’t determined if he’s plucky yet. Surely you’ll concede that in order to do those jobs with any degree of literary consanguinuity, he must be plucky.

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**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-question-please-read/368634/23 "2006-08-14T18:29:26Z")

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[QUOTE=Bricker]  
Well, we haven’t determined if he’s plucky yet. Surely you’ll concede that in order to do those jobs with any degree of literary consanguinuity, he must be plucky.  
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Alternatively he could also be plucky or spunky, although people with the latter trait often find successful careers in quite a different area of work.

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**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-question-please-read/368634/24 "2006-08-14T19:31:39Z")

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[QUOTE=flurb]  
It seems to me that you would be more properly employed as a chimney sweep, or maybe a newsie.  
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You forgot shoe-shiner.

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**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-question-please-read/368634/25 "2006-08-14T20:11:25Z")

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[QUOTE=Bricker]  
Well, we haven’t determined if he’s plucky yet. Surely you’ll concede that in order to do those jobs with any degree of literary consanguinuity, he must be plucky.  
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He would also need to exhibit a lot of gumption. And a little bit of moxie.

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-question-please-read/368634/26 "2006-08-14T23:20:47Z")

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Asked and answered. Closed. **samclem**

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