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vocational paradigm shift

Job loss / being fired.

(as made famous by How I Met Your Mother, on CBS)
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Ted: "Well, after he proposed a vocational paradigm shift, I made an impromptu presentation using a four-pronged approach that really brought him to his knees."

Barney: "You hit him with a chair?"

Ted: "Yep."

vocation navigator 

A program for students to help them find true contentment in the workplace.
Have you read The Vocation Navigator Workbook?

Vocational Cattle 

Your co-workers that do absolutely NOTHING, and have no qualm about YOU doing their job.

Often filler for over inflated companies with too many employees.
Any given company suffers the 80/20 Rule. 20% of the people do 80% of the work. The rest are Vocational Cattle.

Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical High School

When the Name is a mouthful and you have to get up at 4 o'clock in the morning because you live an hour away from the school and you have school during blizzards because they have their own plowing system but all the other school around are closed. When the students are high then the grades and the teachers are even higher. teachers that take smoking breaks during class. when there are 4 fire drills in a week.
Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical High School

what students talk about at Tri-County.
"student- wheres he going
student2- hes going to smoke a cig."

Chemical Vocation 

Chemical Vocation is an awsome hardcore/emo/screamo band from Uddevalla, Sweden.
So far they have released one EP, and a CD is on the way.
Chemical Vocation is truly amazing, and they're going to play on Pier Pressure, Gothenburg 1st of Juli.
Chemical Vocation is awsome, you should listen to them too.
Or even better, visit Pier Pressure, with some pretty good bands.

Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical High School

A school where every kid is either extremely right-wing or they're in the medical shop, if you don't share the same general opinions as other kids in your shop then congrats you're getting bullied. If you find a teacher who isn't sick of the students then they're probably sick of the shitty faculty members who can't communicate with anyone on anything unless it's in the form of either a poorly made pdf file or getting everyone in one room to talk for way too long.
Person 1: The name "Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical High School" is honestly way too long

Person 2: bro just call it "Tri"
More from Urban Dictionary
The striver is an interesting phenomenon that is seen across college campuses. In essence, the striver is an over-achiever who comes from a working or middle class family. He may be an immigrant. He may have been a slacker in HS who was "born again" into an academic wunderkind. Or he may just be an over-achiever who is keeping at it.

The striver is willing to sacrifice his social life at the expense of Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude. The striver is the guy who stays at the library long after you are gone. The striver is the guy who takes 30 credits/semester and considers anything below an A/4.0 failure. The striver doesn't work on campus, he is too busy finding ways to pad his resume instead of working retail or workstudy. The striver lets his grades pay his education by applying to ten scholarships a year.

The striver is a future Soros/Fullbright/Rhodes/Gates/Marshall/etc. fellow. The striver lives to study. For the striver, their fun comes from the rewards they expect to receive in return for their diligence. Be it Law School, B-School, academia, or politics. The striver seeks to find the American Dream through academic success.
Anthony was a striver. He transfered from a TTT to an IVY and graduated in 2 years. He studied his ass off and went to Penn Law. He got a Biglaw offer. But lost it all because of an unmoderated mesasgeboard.

Successful strivers:
- Barack Obama
- Harold Koh
Striver by URM Striver January 3, 2009
Word of the Day on August 15, 2026

SkyPesos 

Delta SkyMiles, also known as SkyPesos, is the frequent flyer program of Delta Airlines. It has a very poor value and hard to use.
- I'm trying to book an award flight to Paris, but I only have 70,000 SkyPesos
- Just forget about it, you don't have enough SkyPesos to fly anywhere.
SkyPesos by 404_name_not_found December 6, 2018
Word of the Day on August 14, 2026

Quiche Peanemis

Quirky niche peak cinema analysis
It describes the analysis of a media piece which is quirky and niche, yet peak.
Give me the quiche peanemis on the movie I missed.
Quiche Peanemis by Mushroom2241 June 17, 2026
Word of the Day on August 13, 2026

Hate Draft

1. Select a player (real or fantasy) during a sports draft to spite or anger one or more of your opponents because they had intended to select him/her.

2. Select a player (real or fantasy) during a sport draft to put one or more of your opponents at a strategic disadvantage.
1. Billy hate drafted Chad OchoCinco because he knew Sam had wanted him since he is from Cincinnati. Billy already had plenty of players to fill that position but wanted to make sure Sam didn't get him.

2. Billy hate drafted Peyton Manning because he was the only good quarterback left and he knew Sam had been planning on drafting him.
Hate Draft by pffler September 1, 2009
Word of the Day on August 12, 2026
"I can pull James Bond stunts in a jalopy."
jalopy by watson November 20, 2002
Word of the Day on August 11, 2026

Utility beer 

Utility beer is the beer you keep around for the day-to-day moments when beer is a necessity to assist in pedestrian activities (golf, plumbing, yardwork, babysitting, staff meetings, Zoom calls). For the beer snob it is the beer you save for neighbors when they drop in at 3 p.m. on a Tuesday. It is differentiated from the actual high-end beer you save for special events, holidays, and special tastings.
Person 1: Dave, did you bring along those hazy craft IPA's so we could drink while cleaning Lyle's pool?
Person 2: Nope. I just have a bunch of utility beer that Steve dumped on me. Good enough for this. It is only 10:30 a.m.
Utility beer by lakeshore February 1, 2022
Word of the Day on August 10, 2026
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