Day job
Work
Work noun - A literary, musical, or artistic production.
Day job and work are semantically related in employment topic. Sometimes you can use "Day job" instead a noun "Work".
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Both terms in one sentence
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In the same story, a black fan of Harvey's asks him about the way he portrays other black people; Harvey explains that he always asks if he can use their stories in his work, since most of the people he writes about work with him at his day job and doesn't want to alienate them.
Source: Comic Book / American Splendor - This was presumably a bit of Author Appeal at work, as Daniel Suarez's day job is computer security.
Source: Spammer - The fact that she wasn't widely known as painter, as it wasn't her day job, contributed to this, as did her habit of not signing her work.
Source: Wrongfully Attributed
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Work and Day job. (2017). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/day_job/work
Day job & Work. N.p., 2017. Web. 01 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/day_job/work>.
Work or Day job. 2017. Accessed August 01, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/day_job/work.
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