Job (disambiguation) explained

A job is a regular activity performed in exchange for payment, or a task or project that may or may not be compensated.

Job or JOB may also refer to:

Places

• Job, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the United States
• Job, Puy-de-Dôme, a commune in central France

People

• Job (given name)
• Job (surname)

Arts, entertainment, and media

Literature

• Job (novel), a novel by Joseph Roth
• , a novel by Robert A. Heinlein

Other media

• Job (Shea), a sculpture by Judith Shea
• Job, a 1950 opera by Luigi Dallapiccola
• Job, an 1892 oratorio by Hubert Parry
• , a ballet by Ralph Vaughan Williams
• Job (play), a play by Max Wolf Friedlich

Computing

• Job (computing) or job stream, a unit of work in a computer processing environment
• Job (Unix), a representation of a process group for process control in a Unix shell

Religion

• Patriarch Job of Moscow, d. 1607, Russian leader
• Job (biblical figure), the central character in the Book of Job
• Book of Job, part of the Hebrew Bible
• Job in Islam, a prophet in Islam

Other uses

• Job (professional wrestling), in professional wrestling, the act of losing a match
• JOB (rolling papers), a brand of cigarette paper
• Job, slang for a crime, especially a robbery

See also

• J.O.B. Records, a defunct record label which specialized in blues and R&B
• The Job (disambiguation)
• Jobs (disambiguation)
• Jobbing (disambiguation)
• Jobber (disambiguation)
• Jobe