steady employment with fixed salary and working hours, as well as potential for growth and advancement. Having a real job may mean working in a field that is incompatible with partying, taking drugs, or assuming an otherwise unconventional lifestyle.

When someone goes to the gym and spends 90% of the time on their phones scrolling through social media

As opossed to a shit job or McJob. A real job is a job that pays well, generally involves doing work you enjoy and has at least some level of security because it involves skills that require training enough that helping out an employee that's having difficulty is less expensive then training a new one.

A real job is one that has the potential for advancement. As well, a certain degree of professional behavior is normally expected of employees and the managment.

That's in theory that is.

Unfortunatly, in reality, real jobs are rare in this day and age. With so many trained and skilled people out there, job security doesen't exist in them as they offer little in the way of training and can get new employees from a pool of countless job seekers. As a result, the pay these jobs offer is way down and employees are growing increasingly more often treated as disposable and with little more respect then beasts of burden.

A term used by college graduate snobs, used to convince themselves that working in a cooperation isn't a waste of time and following your dreams will get you nowhere.

X ray tech. That is the only real job known that mankind. Anything else, including ones that require years of school and decades of training are fake.

noun: labor intensive employment in manufacturing and service industries, often defined as blue collar.