Help! What is work?

[Bastet]

After beeing unemployed for a few months i finaly found someone stupid enough to hire me :narnar: So as of next Tuesday ill be starting my job for a Oilfield Chemicals company. This also means that ill finaly be able to afford a trip down to meet you all next lan if all goes well
 
Now theres just this thing to figure out, what is work again? Anyone have any bright ideas?

[Bob]

Again, many many congratulations mate :clap:
Best of luck with the new place, and hope you'll enjoy it there!

Now theres just this thing to figure out, what is work again? Anyone have any bright ideas?

Try to get a desk where your monitor face away from where people walk, so that you can browse the forum without anyone noticing :narnar:

[DarkAngel]

Grats m8

[DuVeL]

Congratz, btw, from work you do get to have some time off every now and then and a dMw-LAN is allways a good thing (booking easyjet way in advance is really cheap).
 
As I'm typing this, I'm getting paid. It's called work...:g:

[Nefertem]

Congrats on the job mate :thumbsup2:

[Dr Sadako]

Now theres just this thing to figure out, what is work again? Anyone have any bright ideas?

It is what you do to finance your spare time.
 
Good luck and have fun. As this is your first job I suggest you do the following. Set a maximum figure of how many hours you work per week. Never go beyond that number without getting good financial or free time compensation. It is really easy to be too ambitious when you are fresh out of school ...

[Deathitself]

congratz mate hope to see you at the next lan:yahoo:
 
 
 
 
 
:devil:

[Grimnar]

Gratz:flirty:   You will start to learn what working is fast enough.

[Bastet]

It is what you do to finance your spare time.
 
Good luck and have fun. As this is your first job I suggest you do the following. Set a maximum figure of how many hours you work per week. Never go beyond that number without getting good financial or free time compensation. It is really easy to be too ambitious when you are fresh out of school ...

If you knew me well youd know the pointlessness of that comment, i never work to much or to hard :norty: But overtime pay is pritty decent.

[delanvital]

Gratz:flirty: You will start to learn what working is fast enough.

Yeah .. .and... yeah :sideways:

[Luminance]

congratz m8, hope you like it there.

and about that what is work thingy:

work =
1. Physical or mental effort or activity directed toward the production or accomplishment of something.
2. a. A job; employment: looking for work.
b. A trade, profession, or other means of livelihood.

3. a. Something that one is doing, making, or performing, especially as an occupation or undertaking; a duty or task: begin the day's work.
b. An amount of such activity either done or required: a week's work.

4. a. The part of a day devoted to an occupation or undertaking: met her after work.
b. One's place of employment: Should I call you at home or at work?

5. a. Something that has been produced or accomplished through the effort, activity, or agency of a person or thing: This story is the work of an active imagination. Erosion is the work of wind, water, and time.
b. Full action or effect of an agency: The sleeping pills did their work.
c. An act; a deed: "I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity" Ecclesiastes 1:14.

6. a. An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, or literary or musical composition; a work of art.
b.  works The output of a writer, artist, or musician considered or collected as a whole: the works of Shakespeare.

7. a.  works Engineering structures, such as bridges or dams.
b. A fortified structure, such as a trench or fortress.

8. a. Needlework, weaving, lacemaking, or a similar textile art.
b. A piece of such textile art.

9. A material or piece of material being processed in a machine during manufacture: work to be turned in the lathe.
10.  works (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A factory, plant, or similar building or complex of buildings where a specific type of business or industry is carried on. Often used in combination: a steelworks.
11.  works Internal mechanism: the works of a watch.
12. The manner, style, or quality of working or treatment; workmanship.
13. Abbr. w Physics The transfer of energy from one physical system to another, especially the transfer of energy to a body by the application of a force that moves the body in the direction of the force. It is calculated as the product of the force and the distance through which the body moves and is expressed in joules, ergs, and foot-pounds.
14.  works Moral or righteous acts or deeds: salvation by faith rather than works.
15.  worksa. Informal  The full range of possibilities; everything. Used with the: ordered a pizza with the works.
b. Slang  A thorough beating or other severe treatment. Used with the: took him outside and gave him the works.


adj. Of, relating to, designed for, or engaged in work.

v.  worked also  wrought (rôt), work·ing, works
v.intr.1. To exert oneself physically or mentally in order to do, make, or accomplish something.
2. To be employed; have a job.
3. a. To function; operate: How does this latch work?
b. To function or operate in the desired or required way: The telephone hasn't worked since the thunderstorm.

4. a. To have a given effect or outcome: Our friendship works best when we speak our minds.
b. To have the desired effect or outcome; prove successful: This recipe seems to work.

5. To exert an influence. Used with on or upon: worked on her to join the group.
6. To arrive at a specified condition through gradual or repeated movement: The stitches worked loose.
7. To proceed or progress slowly and laboriously: worked through the underbrush; worked through my problems in therapy.
8. To move in an agitated manner, as with emotion: Her mouth worked with fear.
9. To behave in a specified way when handled or processed: Not all metals work easily.
10. To ferment.
11. Nautical a. To strain in heavy seas so that the joints give slightly and the fastenings become slack. Used of a boat or ship.
b. To sail against the wind.

12. To undergo small motions that result in friction and wear: The gears work against each other.

v.tr.1. To cause or effect; bring about: working miracles.
2. To cause to operate or function; actuate, use, or manage: worked the controls; can work a lathe.
3. To shape or forge: "Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor" Edgar Allan Poe.
4. To make or decorate by needlework: work a sampler.
5. To solve (a problem) by calculation and reasoning.
6. To knead, stir, or otherwise manipulate in preparation: Work the dough before shaping it.
7. To bring to a specified condition by gradual or repeated effort or work: finally worked the window open; worked the slaves to death.
8. To make, achieve, or pay for by work or effort: worked her way to the top; worked his passage on the ship.
9. Informal  To arrange or contrive. Often used with it: worked it so that her weekends are free.
10. To make productive; cultivate: work a farm.
11. To cause to work: works his laborers hard.
12. To excite or provoke: worked the mob into a frenzy.
13. Informal a. To gratify, cajole, or enchant artfully, especially for the purpose of influencing: The politician worked the crowd. The comedian worked the room with flawless rhythm.
b. To use or manipulate to one's own advantage; exploit: learned how to work the system; worked his relatives for sympathy.

14. To carry on an operation or function in or through: the agent who works that area; working the phones for donations.
15. To ferment (liquor, for example).

Phrasal Verbs: work in1. To insert or introduce: worked in a request for money.
2. To make an opening for, as in a schedule: said the doctor would try to work her in.
3. To cause to be inserted by repeated or continuous effort.

 work into1. To insert or introduce into.
2. To make an opening for (someone or something) in: worked a few field trips into the semester's calendar.
3. To cause to be inserted in by repeated or continuous effort: worked the pick into the lock.

 work off To get rid of by work or effort: work off extra pounds; work off a debt.

 work out1. To accomplish by work or effort.
2. To find a solution for; solve: worked out the equations; worked out their personal differences.
3. To formulate or develop: work out a plan.
4. To discharge (an obligation or debt) with labor in place of money.
5. To prove successful, effective, or satisfactory: The new strategy may not work out.
6. To have a specified result: The ratio works out to an odd number. It worked out that everyone left on the same train.
7. To engage in strenuous exercise for physical conditioning.
8. To exhaust (a mine, for example).

 work over1. To do for a second time; rework.
2. Slang  To inflict severe physical damage on; beat up.

 work up1. To arouse the emotions of; excite.
2. a. To increase one's skill, responsibility, efficiency, or status through work: worked up to 30 sit-ups a day; worked up to store manager.
b. To intensify gradually: The film works up to a thrilling climax.

3. To develop or produce by mental or physical effort: worked up a patient profile; worked up an appetite.

Idioms: at work1. Engaged in labor; working: at work on a new project.
2. In operation: inflationary forces at work in the economy.

 in the works In preparation; under development: has a novel in the works.

 out of work Without a job; unemployed.

 put in work To perform labor or duties, as on a specified project: put in work on the plastering.

 work both sides of the street To engage in double-dealing; be duplicitous.

 work like a charm To function very well or have a very good effect or outcome.

 work (one's) fingers to the bone To labor extremely hard; toil or travail.

and if your talking about work in physics then:

In physics we say that work is done on an object when you transfer energy to that object. For introductory thinking, this is the best definition of work.
     If you put energy into an object, then you do work on that object.
     If a first object is the agent that gives energy to a second object, then the first object does     work on the second object. The energy goes from the first object into the second object. At first we will say that     if an object is standing still, and you get it moving, then you have put energy into that object.
     For example, a golfer uses a club and gets a stationary golf ball moving when he or she hits     the ball. The club does work on the golf ball as it strikes the ball. Energy leaves the club and enters the ball.     This is a transfer of energy. Thus, we say that the club did work on the ball.
     And, before the ball was struck, the golfer did work on the club. The club was initially standing     still, and the golfer got it moving when he or she swung the club.
     

    So, the golfer does work on the club, transferring energy into the club, making it move. The     club does work on the ball, transferring energy into the ball, getting it moving.
           Formula For Work
     In almost all cases considered when studying mechanical forms of energy, when work is done on     an object a force is applied to the object, and the object is displaced while this force is acting upon it. That     is, the object moves as a result of a force being placed on it.
     In the previous golf example the club places a force on the ball, and this force acts on the     ball over the short distance through which the club and the ball are in contact as the ball is being hit. Energy     is transferred as the force acts over this displacement.
     The amount of work is calculated by multiplying the force times the displacement. That formula     looks like this:
     

    At first we will consider only forces that are aimed in the same direction as the displacement.     For example, we will imagine an object being pushed horizontally to the right, and the object will be moving horizontally     to the right as a result of this applied force.
     

    Below is an animation that shows just that. The force vector is drawn in blue. It is pushing     the object to the right. This force is applied over a displacement. The displacement vector is shown in red. The     object starts out standing still. While the force is acting on the object the object picks up speed, that is, it     accelerates. When the force quits acting the object quits picking up speed, that is, it quits accelerating.
                 
          Notice that in the above animation the object picks up speed while the force is acting upon it.     This picking up of speed means that the object is gaining more and more energy as the force is acting on it. That     is, as the force is acting upon the object, energy is being transferred to the object. Therefore work is being     done on the object. Whatever we might imagine is providing the force is the agent that is doing work on the object.     In our above discussion the force could be applied by the golf club, and the object in the animation represents     the golf ball. This, of course, would need to be thought of as in slow motion!
     Now, since work is calculated as the product of force times displacement, many different combinations     of forces and displacements could yield the same work, or the same energy transfer. For example, in the following     animation a larger force acts over a shorter displacement, yet the same amount of work is ultimately done as in     our first example above.
                 
          And in this next animation a smaller force and a larger displacement that is present is the first     animation is demonstrated. Again, the same amount of work is done. The same amount of energy is transferred.
                 
          Later, we will see what happens when a force is applied at an angle to the displacement. For     a while, though, we will consider only forces in the same direction as the displacement.

[Nefertem]

Somehow I doubt you just wrote all that :ohmy:
Didn't read it.. some of it looked like something science-/math-ish, which I keep away from..

[Anonymous]

Congrats Mr B :clap:

Remember:

Work to live, don't live to work

[target]

Congratz Bastet:yahoo:

[Blunt]

Congrats Mr B :clap:

Remember:

Work to live, don't live to work

:withstupid: