My friends stopped asking me out because I was always either at work or talking about work.
"It's kind of funny talking about work in the water, " said David Sexter, a 43-year-old recruiter at health website WebMD Health Corp.
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And then, one day, you look around at that very table of team members and notice that, for once, no one is talking about work.
They prefer to recruit by example, by putting themselves out there in uniform and talking about their work.
Initially shy, he became at home when talking about his work and a promised 30 minute meeting turned into a two-and-a-half-hour tour.
He was talking about his work here in Boston at the annual meeting for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Along the way, the Vogels thrilled in getting to know the artists, talking about their work, going on studio visits and developing their eye for the avant-garde.
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That set off a chain of responses from many, many women working in the industry talking about hostile work conditions for women and countless other issues they face.
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When talking about his work, his whole body becomes animated.
The nurses chattered at the boys as they went about their work, talking about the weather or whatever sports trivia they had picked up from their husbands.
Anthony, whose effort on the defensive end is often noticeably absent, suddenly can't stop talking about that dirty work.
Just this morning, President Putin is in the newspapers talking about wanting to work with the West in new ways.
Perhaps its the fantasy atmosphere of Dubai, but many attendees here are talking about whether the work of lawyers should be more expansive than client advice.
Organization design is where the spectator sport of talking about the future of work turns into a contact sport.
Long before talking or thinking about the work involved or the compensation, I made one right move: I chose a client who was honorable and trustworthy.
It was only when Australians started talking about the proportions of his work that he began adding elements of traditional painting.
Because, you know, I was interviewing author Susan Strait(ph) a couple of weeks ago, and we were talking about how we do our work.
In essence, I am talking about the kind of knowledge work jobs that exist in the high-tech world and the advanced manufacturing plants of some major manufacturers.
"I would describe it as if I was talking to a contractor about the work I was going to have done and he was describing the work he had done in the past, " Murtie recalls.
Because I think what you saw over the weekend is that you heard the two Republican leaders -- Mitch McConnell and John Boehner -- start talking about how we need to work through a continuing resolution.
But then this was New York and somehow he had such passion for his work, this work of talking about his city, that most New Yorkers couldn't help but appreciate him (until they finally got fed up with him and turned him out after three terms).
The Energy Secretary Chris Huhne is before the Environmental Audit Committee, talking about Carbon Budgets, and Work and Pensions Minister Maria Miller will be giving evident to the Work and Pensions Committee on the new Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission - the replacement for the now defunct Child Support Agency.
What would work better for talking about the state of privacy is the vocabulary of conservation.
Barack Obama is talking about having his team go right to work on this stimulus package.
He also claimed that a key minister in the current UK cabinet had opposed talking to Sinn Fein when John Major was prime minister (he didn't name him but you didn't need to engage in any secret contacts to work out he was talking about Kenneth Clarke).
"When we say stop, question and frisk, we're not talking about a brief inconvenience on the way to work or school, " said Darius Charney of the Center for Constitutional Rights, the lead attorney on the case.
Aside from ticking off your colleagues and possibly tarnishing certain relationships, talking about the election in the office could affect your work.
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They found themselves talking about which U.S. Internet models might work in China and struck upon travel, even though both were engineers.
"We are talking about people who do a full week's work and still come along to training every week and a lot of weekends, " said Capt Carrick.
This week, I spent some time traveling across Iowa talking with folks about rebuilding an economy where if you work hard, you and your family can get ahead.
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