Verboticism: Jobogma
DEFINITION: v. To stick to your plan even though you've realized it's dumb. n. A stupid plan, especially if it's a career plan suggested by parents, teachers or guidance counselors who want you to be something that you're not.
Voted For: Jobogma
Successfully added your vote for "Jobogma".
You still have one vote left...
Undertermining
Created by: scissorlips
Pronunciation: UN-der-term-MINE-ing
Sentence: The way our country clings to foreign policy which is so clearly flawed with such resolution can only be considered undertermining.
Etymology: From undermine: (to lessen or deplete the strength of) + determined: (no hesitation or wavering)
Perstubb
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: perSIST+stubbORN
Sentence: Perstubbing beyond reason, the man continued riding the scooter to and from work during the coldest winter in history, and even sufferred a bout of frostbite, all the while preferring to talk of how much he had saved on gas.
Etymology: perSIST+stubbORN
Realisidiot
Created by: chingbangwa
Pronunciation: ree-yal-ee-see-dee-yot
Sentence: Adam was determined to jump from his roof into his car. He knew it was stupid but its what he always wanted to do. He knows hes being a realisidiot but he is going to do it anyway.
Etymology: Realise(Be fully aware or cognizant of) + idiot (A person of subnormal intelligence)
Planglomania
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: plan/glow/mane/eea
Sentence: Jane's planglomania invloves recreating an English village in Northern Ireland.
Etymology: plan + anglomania ( craze for English institutions and customs)
Dogmanagement
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dôgmanijmənt
Sentence: Most people learn from their mistakes. Not so for John’s boss. Her style of dogmanagement is to stick to her plan no matter what. She also believes in sharing. When things go south, she will throw anybody and everybody under the bus.
Etymology: dogmatic (inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true) + management (the process of dealing with or controlling things or people)
Vocationono
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: vo-cay-shun-NO-no
Sentence: By following his mentor's recommendation to pursue a career in a field he truly hated, Larson was committing vocationono and was on a path to certain failure and while seeking short term fulfillment he was oblivious to the long term disappointments.
Etymology: Blend of vocation and no no
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
What is work? Work is STRUGGLE!
-Chairman Moe
....gret word, Muz! - metrohumanx, 2009-06-08: 05:05:00
----------------------------
Shambition
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: sham BISH un
Sentence: Miss Anthrope's snobby parents always had an ambition for her to be a doctor, because she is smart and really likes math and science. It's more of a shambition, however, since she can't stand blood or vomit. Oh yeah, and she doesn't really like people. But she DOES like the "finer things in life," so now their dream is for her to MARRY a doctor. p.s. And it will be THEIR fault if she doesn't marry a doctor, because they haven't fully exploited their country club connections. (See Tuesday.)
Etymology: sham + ambition
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Shambitious word! - Nosila, 2010-06-30: 09:13:00
----------------------------
Plantartica
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: PLAN-tahrk-ti-ka
Sentence: When his parents told him that they had secured for him a career in the cryogenic's industry, plantartica, and the feeling of being left out in the cold in a "dead-end" job, snap-froze ergoptimistic Bob unto his upwardly-mobile marrow.
Etymology: PLAN & ANTARCTICA: frozen, forsaken vocational void felt by those trapped by the doings of others, without any real plan of escape from undesired positions.
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
sounds like a Canadian winter - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-28: 15:41:00
----------------------------
Momentdumb
Created by: arrrteest
Pronunciation: moe-ment-dum
Sentence: Jillian had an epiphany about her present course of action, but her momentdumb prevented her from avoiding the train wreck that was approaching.
Etymology: momentum, an impelling force or strength + dumb, slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Best of the day! - Mustang, 2008-04-28: 21:22:00
----------------------------
Masqcareering
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: mask-kuh-reer-ing
Sentence: She wanted to be a scientist, but she was masqcareering as a carpenter because everyone in her family had been a carpenter going all the way back to Jesus.
Etymology: masquerading (pretending to be someone one is not) + career (a chosen profession)
