I haven't been working in a formal job so far.

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Could you check my sentences... Grammatically...

(Do you work or study?)

I haven't been working in a formal job so far. However, I have been occupying myself with gardening, sowing seeds and feeding some heads of cattle.
 

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Perhaps;

I don't have a paying job, but I do some gardening and I feed the cattle.
 

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Perhaps;

I don't have a paying job, but I do some gardening and I feed the cattle.
I want to use Present Perfect Continuous)
 

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I have been occupying myself with gardening, sowing seeds and feeding some heads of cattle.
I've been occupying myself with gardening and farming and feeding my cattle.

"Occupying myself with sowing seeds" doesn't sound very natural. Neither does "feeding some heads of cattle".

If they aren't your cattle, you can just stop at "farming". Taking care of cattle is part of the work at a dairy farm.
 

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@Barque They don't have cattle on a dairy farm. Where would they put the cows?

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I can understand that, actually. The concept of working and studying (perhaps in the evenings or nights or on weekends) is more common in the West. In many Asian countries, you finish school and possibly college (in the larger Indian cities, it isn't very common for college students to work), and then start working full time.

That question's common in India and generally means "Are you still a student or have you finished your education and started working?"
 
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What do you mean by "a formal job"? I have not heard of jobs being classified as formal and informal.
There are full-time/part-time jobs and temporary/permanent jobs.
 

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What do you mean by "a formal job"? I have not heard of jobs being classified as formal and informal.
There are full-time/part-time jobs and temporary/permanent jobs.
Here you are
 

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If the question's worded in the present, the answer would normally be in the same tense.
They say that if I use present perfect continuous it'll be much more brilliant than present simple.
 

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The site you linked us to has some examples of very unnatural English.
 

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The site you linked to also has some very odd content. Apparently jobs such as metalworkers, postmen and cabdrivers are informal and illegal.

If I had to differentiate between a formal and informal job, I'd say that any legal job where you get paid money is a formal one, while jobs where you might just get food and accommodation and some pocket money in return, such as a young man working on his father's farm while also studying, is an informal one.

They say that if I use present perfect continuous it'll be much more brilliant than present simple.
Who's "they"?

The present perfect continuous isn't necessarily better in these contexts ("brilliant" is the wrong word).
 
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@ubahrom I visited that website. My head is spinning.
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My head has been spinning for almost four months.
Yours almost works. Heads don't really spin, of course. That is, they don't in reality, but they can in your imagination.

I had never heard of a formal job before. Certainly, there are varying skill levels. There are trades. And there are professions. There's paid work. And then there's what I do on this forum. (Unpaid.)
 

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Yours almost works. Heads don't really spin, of course. That is, they don't in reality, but they can in your imagination.

I had never heard of a formal job before. Certainly, there are varying skill levels. There are trades. And there are professions. There's paid work. And then there's what I do on this forum. (Unpaid.)
Another one:
Learning English has been making my head swim.
 

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Could you check my sentences ... Grammatically... from a grammar perspective?

Do you work or study? There was no need for brackets round this question.

I haven't been working in had a formal paid job so far yet. However, I have been occupying myself with gardening, sowing seeds and feeding some heads of cattle.
Note my corrections above. I don't know why you put the question in brackets.
I want to use the present perfect continuous.
We don't capitalise the names of tenses, and we use an article before the names of them.
They say that if I use the present perfect continuous, it'll be much more brilliant better than the present simple.
Who says that?
Now no comma here I am absolutely sure that I am learning English in a/ the wrong way, unfortunately.
Remember to end sentences with an appropriate closing punctuation mark. A closing bracket on its own isn't used without an opening bracket somewhere before it.
My head has been swimming for almost 4 four months.
We write the numbers one to twenty (inclusive) out in full as part of a sentence.
 
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