Noun. A societal or employment position that exists solely because funds from a money-cloud (such as tax money, tuition, endowments, and non-profit organizations) was used to create it. It's title, usually having several multi-syllabic words, is an example of the "inverse law of word length and importance". It is usually a useless position that someone with several higher-education degrees holds (and perhaps even invented themselves). The purpose for its existence is to virtue-signal on both the make-work-er and make-work-ee's parts. It is meant to persuade people based on their appeal to authority.
"Margaret's make-work position is that of a biology education researcher whose research focuses on making undergraduate science learning environments more inclusive. Trained as a Ph.D. neuroscientist, she transitioned to discipline-based education research and is an expert on course-based undergraduate research experiences and making undergraduate science learning experiences, specifically active learning courses and undergraduate research experiences, more inclusive. Her research focuses on students with concealable stigmatized identities such as religious students, LGBTQ+ students, and students with disabilities, as well as the impact on students of instructors revealing these identities in the context of the classroom. Her research in biology education has been internationally recognized and featured in Science Magazine, as well as in numerous news outlets, including the NY Times, CNN, and Scientific American."
by Wichita.Downspout June 2, 2023
Get the make-work mug.A way that schools force you into a "work environment"
But in a "work environment" you are paid money.
Basically legal child labour
But in a "work environment" you are paid money.
Basically legal child labour
School "Hey kid you wanna do work experience?"
Kid "Am I paid for the labour?"
Schools "no? Why do you need money, you're a child"
Kid "isn't that just child labour?"
School "haha no"
Kid "Am I paid for the labour?"
Schools "no? Why do you need money, you're a child"
Kid "isn't that just child labour?"
School "haha no"
by SchoolIsFlawed June 25, 2023
Get the Work Experience mug.It is an expression used to describe a type of work that is mixed; specifically, It is work that involves working in the office and working from home.
by Bioengineer June 27, 2023
Get the Blended working mug.by Bendover455 September 25, 2025
Get the Jayden Work mug.No you are making shit up because you want to tell yourself that but I said my ideas were better and they are. My rhetoric. My argument. You used it to get Trump elected. So they ARE better because I AM better. Than you. Fucking Kim Kardashian. Taylor Swift. Every name on the list and you were more concerned with YOUR OWN CELEBRITY than MY THING and now there is very real possibility that you both murdered Liam Payne and failed to prevent perfectly preventable child-murder. Right? Like, I stopped my child murder and my suicide guy. Like... What were you doing this whole time that you didn't say your child from the murder? Stealing my ideas and living off the proceeds of my wildly superior mind-brain? Some of you are. Some of you WERE doing that.
Hym "No the money comes from my own work and you are lying and making shit up to sandbag me because the second your fans find out about the cover-up and what you're been doing for the past 4 years then you are DONE-ZO! You didn't save your child murder kids. I did. I saved my suicide guy. You got Suchir Balaji, my AI whistleblower, kill or made him kill himself because you greedy fucks are trying to scavenge off my thing. So no fucking AI copyright shit for any of YOU."
by Hym Iam October 5, 2025
Get the My own work mug.Means someone’s fully locked in, no half-steppin — they giving it their all, whether it’s hustlin’, grindin’, or wildin’. If they working with a full day, they’re all in, mind, body, and energy.
“Bruh, that dude Javon up the block working with a full day, fasho — certified crazy.” — Locals in the hood
by RealTalkOnlyFool October 13, 2025
Get the Working With a Full Day mug.To toggle with lights while moving through a dark area to stay in light so that monsters, superstitions, supernatural beings, etc. dont attack you.
by Tetofan🥖🥐🥖🥐 October 13, 2025
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