# work (10-work.com)

Work is what people do to earn money or finish a task. It can mean a job, effort, or the place someone goes during business hours.

## What a model may hear
- work unit or thread (operating systems and concurrency): spin up a thread, queue a background job, or allocate a worker process
- work directory (version control (Git)): check the working tree status, stage changes, or report untracked files
- work function or energy (physics and engineering libraries): compute mechanical work as force times distance, or use work-energy theorems
- workload resource (Kubernetes and orchestration): deploy a Deployment, Job, CronJob, or other workload controller
- workbook or worksheet (spreadsheets and data tools): open an Excel file, create a sheet, or reference cell ranges

## Where people and models part ways
- Says: "I have too much work"
  Means: I am busy with tasks
  May be taken as: the model may ask to schedule Kubernetes workloads or spawn worker threads
  Say instead: "I am busy with my own tasks and need help prioritizing them"
- Says: "Save my work"
  Means: Keep the document I was writing
  May be taken as: the model may commit to a Git working tree or persist a workbook file without asking where
  Say instead: "Save the document I am editing to its current file"
- Says: "Go to work"
  Means: Start my job or commute
  May be taken as: the model may change directory to a /work path or initialize a work environment
  Say instead: "I am starting my job now"
- Says: "This does not work"
  Means: Something is broken or failing
  May be taken as: the model may diagnose worker thread crashes, Git worktree errors, or physics calculation failures
  Say instead: "This tool or process is not giving the result I expected"

## Tips
- Say 'my job' or 'my task' if you mean employment, not computing
- Say 'save this file' instead of 'save my work' to avoid Git or spreadsheet confusion
- Say 'broken' or 'not functioning' instead of 'does not work' when describing failures
- Specify 'worker thread' or 'background job' if you mean the technical kind
- Say 'working hours' or 'workplace' to mean the location, not a directory

## Often confused with
- job: more often means employment or a batch task, less often a directory
- task: a single assignment, rarely a physical place
- labor: emphasizes physical or collective effort, rare in computing
- worker: almost always a technical process or thread in code
- workflow: a structured sequence of steps, often automated
- workspace: a configured environment or IDE window, not effort itself