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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

"It's not the job it was"

A: "Another five years and I'm out of it, Full pension"
B: "It's not the job it was"

This conversation came from the novel I've read and I have complete no idea what "It's not the job it was" means?
someone please explain it for me?
Thanks
  

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Anonymous It's not the job it was It is not the same job as the job that it used to be. The job has changed. The meaning is likely to be that the speaker's attitude toward the job has changed, not that, literally, the job has changed.

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous It's not the job it was It is not the same job as the job that it used to be.
  • The job has changed.
  • The meaning is likely to be that the speaker's attitude toward the job has changed, not that, literally, the job has changed.
  • The speaker is probably saying that he doesn't like his job as much as he used to like it in the past.
  • CJ
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AnonymousIt's not the job it was
It is not the same job as the job that it used to be. The job has changed.

The meaning is likely to be that the speaker's attitude toward the job has changed, not that, literally, the job has changed.
The speaker is probably saying that he doesn't like his job as much as he used to like it in the past.

CJ
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CalifJimIt is not the same job as the job that it used to be. The job has changed.
I agree.
CalifJimThe meaning is likely to be that the speaker's attitude toward the job has changed, not that, literally, the job has changed.
I don't agree. The requirements of many jobs these days are very different from what they were only
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