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A variety of factors contribute to career stagnation, even among professionals who are gainfully employed or switch jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

“At Atoms we make gainfully employed robots—specialized robots with productive jobs that bring abundance to their owners and society at large,” Kalanick wrote on the company’s website.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026

At the center of this story is a gainfully employed layabout, an unnamed, possibly mythical “friend of a friend.”

From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026

He was often poor, always mooching, rarely gainfully employed for long.

From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2023

Such girls live in quiet black neighborhoods where everybody is gainfully employed.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison


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