word-usage
what's the opposite to "physical job" ? I mean there are some jobs such as : a cleaner, a builder (or construction worker???) , a waiter, so you work mostly physically. What do I call jobs where I have to solve many problems using my intelligence, specialists like a programmer, an architect and so on.
Should I say "mental work"? Or "mental job" , sounds weird for me. I am talking particularly about jobs not about work like a process.
Thanks.
There are many job phrases, especially in slang, and while there are blowjobs and handjobs and rim jobs, most jobs do not have sexual connotations. They simply follow one of the various conventional definitions of job as a task, a piece of work, an occupation, or a crime. Referring to such things as jobs is informal; in formal registers, I would only use job in its basic sense of an occupation or duty, or when part of an idiomatic set phrase like odd job or joe job.
There are mcjobs and day jobs for the under-employed and the under-discovered, lube jobs and salvage jobs for pre- and post-crashed cars, and hatchet jobs and snow jobs for your enemies. If you pull a job on a bank you've done a bank job, which might make you a nut job or a whack job, especially if it isn't an inside job you thought up at your desk job.
Its use to refer to cosmetic surgery is so common that the American Heritage Dictionary includes it as a definition:
An operation done to improve one's appearance, or the result of such an operation. Often used in combination: a face job.
While I don't think face job is common, the nose job (for cosmetic rhinoplasty) certainly is. The Online Etymology Dictionary traces it to 1963, but Google Books finds it in a 1947 English textbook
In addition to nose jobs, there are eye jobs and, as you note, boob jobs, but not every type of cosmetic surgery is best known as a job: there are various lifts, tucks, and implants, for example, for more specific work. It is common to hear breast implants instead of a boob job, being somewhat more formal but not as clinical as breast augmentation, and being more descriptive of the procedure, as technically speaking, breast reduction and breast shaping could also be argued to be "boob jobs." And rather than a butt job, you're more likely to hear of butt implants as one method of buttock augmentation.
You are looking for a job.
I don't think you would be satisfied with just a "job opportunity". If you were offered a "job opportunity", you would want to follow through until you either got the job, or did not get the job.
Similarly, a child who wants to pet a cat does not want a "Schrödinger's cat", because Shrödinger's cat has a 50% chance of being dead when the child tries to pet it. The child wants a real, live "cat".
Best Answer
A term often used to describe manual labor is blue-collar.
In contrast, a term often used to describe “intellectual” labor is white-collar.