[Grammar] Steady job or Stable job?

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Lalrinpuia

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What is the difference between steady job and stable job? What is the correct usage? Please can you explain Sir.
 

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What is the difference between a steady job and a stable job? What is the correct usage? Please can you explain? [STRIKE]Sir.[/STRIKE]

Welcome to the forum. :hi:

1. Did you look up "steady" and "stable" in a good dictionary? What definitions have you found?

2. Are you asking about the correct usage of "steady", "stable", "steady job" or "stable job"?

3. Please don't refer to everyone here as "Sir". It's overly formal and it suggests that you think we are all male. We are not.
 

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Lalrinpuia, I think you're the first Indian citizen on the forum whose native language is Mongolian!

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What is the difference between a steady job and a stable job? What is the correct usage?

I have never heard of a stable job before. Have you seen some examples of each word's usage? Could you post some?
 

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Steady job sounds more natural to me.
 

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If you're talking about having regular work, you can use steady job.

Don't use stable job.
 

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(Unless you're a groom at a stud farm.)
 

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Bob: I've got a stable job.
Ted: Yeah, what do you do?
Bob: I clean up after the horses.
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