work history

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And what you can do if you… I’m a business strategy guy by work history, but trained as a historian.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

That’s one option for her, depending on her work history.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 17, 2025

The résumé it spit back at me was an unrecognizable hallucination of fictitious work history, invented job titles, and fake degrees at universities I never attended.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2025

As you’ve noted, to qualify for your own benefit you would need 40 quarterly credits or 10 years of work history at jobs that paid into Social Security.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2025

These tests were, of course, cross-referenced with the fake educational background and work history that I’d given to my bogus Bryce Lynch identity.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline