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Government's way of saying you may earn money, under strict supervision.
means An official document that grants a non-citizen or minor legal permission to be employed in a given country or role.
from Straightforward compound: 'work' (Old English weorc, labor or deed) plus 'permit' (from Latin permittere, 'to let pass through' — per, 'through,' plus mittere, 'to send'). So a permit was literally a thing that let you pass; a work permit is the paperwork that lets your labor pass through the gates of bureaucracy without getting stopped at the border.
- not a job
- it just means you are allowed to seek one
- expiry anxiety
- often tied to visa status, countdown included
- minors included
- originally meant for teens working legally
- bureaucracy tax
- can take months, employers wait anxiously too