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

Eligibility requires a sufficient work history and earned work credits, typically 40 credits, or about 10 years of work.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 9, 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

“He engaged in extensive self-help programming, maintained an excellent work history, and received numerous commendations from correctional staff for his positive transformation.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 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