Job

A job may refer to any of the following:

1. In general, a job is work or a task that's been assigned, is currently being worked on, or was completed. Today, a job is a paid position often completed by a human. However, as computers and robots become more sophisticated, computers are doing more jobs.

Examples of human computer-related jobs include administrator, engineer, programmer, and technical support.

2. With Linux, jobs is a command that lets you show running jobs. See our jobs command page for further information and examples on this command.

3. With JCL (job control language) or an IBM mainframe operating system, a job refers to many tasks, such as executing a program, copying data, etc.

4. When describing a person, Jobs is short for Steve Jobs.

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