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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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JOB   occurs   39 times 16 in BB  •  23 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... job.  BB To Employers, p.138
"Oh no," said my friend, "this chap is either through with liquor, or he is minus a job.


2.
  ... job.  BB To Employers, p.146
If he is, and is still trying to recover, he will tell you about it even if it means the loss of his job.


3.
  ... job.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
I drank all I dared in the bar, and then went to my room to finish the job.


4.
  ... job.  12&12 Contents (Step Six), p.6
The beginning of a lifetime job.


5.
  ... job.  12&12 Step Six, p.65
So Step Six -- "Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character" -- is A.A.'s way of stating the best possible attitude one can take in order to make a beginning on this lifetime job.


6.
  ... job.  12&12 Step Eight, p.79
Our business associates didn't suffer, because we were usually on the job.


7.
  ... job.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.113
We lose that good job.


8.
  ... job?  12&12 Tradition Six, p.157
But what kind of person should head the job?


9.
  ... job.  12&12 Tradition Six, p.158
"Of course I can't take the job.


10.
  ... job."  12&12 Tradition Six, p.158
"Nevertheless," we pointed out, "you still have a legal right to take this job."


11.
  ... job.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.168
If we hired an alcoholic, he'd receive only what we'd have to pay a nonalcoholic for the same job.


12.
  ... job at a hospital in New York.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.136
"One day I was doing a Twelfth Step job at a hospital in New York.


13.
  ... job at the office -- security; self esteem ...  BB How It Works, p.65
Mr. Brown -- Brown may get my job at the office -- security; self esteem (fear).


14.
  ... job, can talk to a man with ...  BB To Employers, p.146
An alcoholic who has recovered, but holds a relatively unimportant job, can talk to a man with a better position.


15.
  ... job categories of commercial organizations. These A.A.'s ...  12&12 Tradition Eight (Note), p.169
(*) The work of present-day staff members has no counterpart among the job categories of commercial organizations. These A.A.'s bring a wide range of business and professional experience to their service at The General Service Office.


16.
  ... job destroy my confidence and fill me ...  12&12 Step Four, p.51
Did fear and inferiority about my fitness for my job destroy my confidence and fill me with conflict?


17.
  ... job for me.  12&12 Step Six, p.63
I simply couldn't stop drinking, and no human being could seem to do the job for me.


18.
  ... job from which we recoil.  12&12 Step Seven, p.73
We will want to be rid of some of these defects, but in some instances this will appear to be an impossible job from which we recoil.


19.
  ... job if it were known.  BB Into Action, p.78
We have already admitted this in confidence to another person, but we are sure we would be imprisoned or lose our job if it were known.


20.
  ... job in some other way, or prefers ...  BB Working With Others, p.95
If he thinks he can do the job in some other way, or prefers some other spiritual approach, encourage him to follow his own conscience.


21.
  ... job is to sidestep the traps.  12&12 Step Ten, p.91
Our first job is to sidestep the traps.


22.
  ... job like this one?  12&12 Tradition Six, p.158
Straightway he appeared at New York's A.A. headquarters, asking, "Is there anything in our tradition that suggests I shouldn't take a job like this one?


23.
  ... job myself.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.42
This process snuffed out the last flicker of conviction that I could do the job myself.


24.
  ... job, no matter how unpromising.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.144
In those days, we'd go anywhere on a Twelfth Step job, no matter how unpromising.


25.
  ... job now is to be at the ...  BB Working With Others, p.102
Your job now is to be at the place where you may be of maximum helpfulness to others, so never hesitate to go anywhere if you can be helpful.


26.
  ... job of living than he has.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.118
She naturally feels that for years she has made a far better job of living than he has.


27.
  ... job, or give him a little financial ...  BB Working With Others, p.96
If he is, you might try to help him about getting a job, or give him a little financial assistance.


28.
  ... Job or no job -- wife or no ...  BB Working With Others, p.98
Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job -- wife or no wife -- we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God.


29.
  ... job she was doing and how she ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.168
Then we saw that if a hardworking secretary answered the phone dozens of times a day, listened to twenty wailing wives, arranged hospitalization and got sponsorship for ten newcomers, and was gently diplomatic with the irate drunk who complained about the job she was doing and how she was overpaid, then such a person could surely not be called a professional A.A.


30.
  ... job still looked like a mere means ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.121
When a job still looked like a mere means of getting money rather than an opportunity for service, when the acquisition of money for financial independence looked more important than a right dependence upon God, we were still the victims of unreasonable fears.


31.
  ... job suffers, we fire him.  BB To Employers, p.148
If a man drinks so much that his job suffers, we fire him.


32.
  ... job, taking a trip, not taking a ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.31
Here are some of the methods we have tried: Drinking beer only, limiting the number of drinks, never drinking alone, never drinking in the morning, drinking only at home, never having it in the house, never drinking during business hours, drinking only at parties, switching from scotch to brandy, drinking only natural wines, agreeing to resign if ever drunk on the job, taking a trip, not taking a trip, swearing off forever (with and without a solemn oath), taking more physical exercise, reading inspirational books, going to health farms and sanitariums, accepting voluntary commitment to asylums -- we could increase the list ad infinitum.


33.
  ... job; then lost it as the result ...  BB Bill's Story, p.4
I found a job; then lost it as the result of a brawl with a taxi driver.


34.
  ... job thoroughly, a wonderful light falls upon ...  12&12 Step Four, p.49
Once we have a complete willingness to take inventory, and exert ourselves to do the job thoroughly, a wonderful light falls upon this foggy scene.


35.
  ... job to be the task of breaking ...  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
I now conceive the psychiatrist's job to be the task of breaking down the patient's inner resistance so that which is inside him will flower, as under the activity of the A.A. program."


36.
  ... job was not to do Twelfth Step ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.168
The job was not to do Twelfth Step work; it was to make Twelfth Step work possible.


37.
  ... job well done.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.110
Practically every A.A. member declares that no satisfaction has been deeper and no joy greater than in a Twelfth Step job well done.


38.
  ... job which took him out of town.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.144
Quite a while later, Ed got a sales job which took him out of town.


39.
  ... job -- wife or no wife -- we simply ...  BB Working With Others, p.98
Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job -- wife or no wife -- we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God.


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