the.com/plum job
The gig everyone envies and nobody can explain how you got.
means A highly desirable job that pays well and demands little, usually landed through luck or connections rather than obvious merit.
from From 'plum' meaning a choice prize — likely rooted in the old sense of 'plum' as something excellent or best-of-the-bunch, the way a plum stands out as the prized piece in a pudding or dessert. By the 1800s 'plum' had become slang for a lucrative post or appointment, especially the cushy government and colonial jobs handed out through patronage. 'Plum job' simply nails the fruit metaphor to 'job,' making literal the idea of a position so sweet it seems plucked straight from the tree.
- origin
- plum once meant a prize, not the fruit
- hidden rule
- usually requires knowing someone, not something
- irony
- often the easiest job with the hardest-to-get door