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What does the noun journey-work mean?

There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun journey-work . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

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early 1600s

The earliest known use of the noun journey-work is in the early 1600s.

OED's earliest evidence for journey-work is from 1601, in the writing of William Cornwallis, essayist.

journey-work is formed within English, by compounding.

Etymons: journey n. III.5 , work n.

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  • journey-pride, n. 1938–
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  • journeywoman, n. 1733–
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the work of a journeyman.

necessary, routine, or servile work.

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How to use journeywork in a sentence

If it is honest journeywork , yet lacks purchasers, at most you may call yourself a hapless tradesman.

If they could get into regular journeywork there a'n't one man as wouldn't prefer it—it would pay them a deal better.

British Dictionary definitions for journeywork

/ ( ˈdʒɜːnɪˌwɜːk ) /

necessary, routine, and menial work

the work of a journeyman

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The journey in journeyman refers to a sense of the familiar word not often used anymore: "a day's labor." This sense of journey was first used in the 14th century. When journeyman appeared the following century, it originally referred to a person who, having learned a handicraft or trade through an apprenticeship, worked for daily wages. In the 16th century, journeyman picked up a figurative (and mainly deprecatory) sense; namely, "one who drudges for another." These days, however, journeyman has little to do with drudgery, and lots to do with knowing a trade inside out.

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Middle English, from journey journey, a day's labor + man

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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Transform Customer Journeys at Scale - And Transform Your Business

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Transform Customer Journeys at Scale—and Transform Your Business

November 08, 2019  By  Bharat Poddar ,  Yogesh Mishra , and  Anandapadmanabhan Ramabhadran

Digital natives were the first to grasp an important truth—that their future growth and success depend as much on redefining the customer experience as on offering better products and services. In the digital era, the ability to pivot nimbly to accommodate changing customer tastes is critical to maintaining market share, as leaders such as Apple, Amazon, Google, Netflix, and Airbnb have so potently demonstrated. Although most companies understand the customer experience imperative, many fail to see that adding to an already long list of change initiatives is not the best way to address it. Discrete incremental improvements won’t cut it.

To put their customers at the center of their business, companies should take their cue from digital natives and reorganize change initiatives around the customer journey —an end-to-end approach to conceiving and solving each distinct customer mission. In our research and our work with more than 100 clients worldwide, we have seen the most successful clients use a customer-­journey-led model for transformation that not only reinvigorates the customer experience but also meets the equally urgent objec­tive of carrying out the company’s digital transformation. This approach, which we call customer-journey-at-scale transformation , draws on the principles of human-­centric design, agile ways of working, and the latest digital and other cutting-­edge capa­bilities, while employing best practices in change management. Underpinning it is a strong data orientation that emphasizes value measurement and enables organizations to continuously improve performance.

Why Customer-Journey-at-Scale Transformation Matters

A customer-journey-at-scale transformation reconfigures the way the company develops, delivers, and improves its products and processes in order to deliver the best possible experience to customers.

At a time when products and services are becoming increasingly commoditized, the strategic importance of customer centricity has greatly increased. Demographics are a major reason: millennials and their younger cohorts—members of Gen Z and the Founders generation—who collectively make up 50% of the US population, are socially networked and hyperconnected, and they expect instant gratification. 1 1 Sources: US Census Bureau Population Estimates and National Projections; UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs; BCG Millennial Survey of 5,000 US residents spanning age groups and income brackets. Notes: 1 Sources: US Census Bureau Population Estimates and National Projections; UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs; BCG Millennial Survey of 5,000 US residents spanning age groups and income brackets. These generations also express the least satisfaction with their experiences with traditional companies. 2 2 Source: BCG’s 2019 Customer Journey Survey in the US (n = 7,000 responses). Notes: 2 Source: BCG’s 2019 Customer Journey Survey in the US (n = 7,000 responses).

Millennials and their younger cohorts express the least satisfaction with their experiences with traditional companies.

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Furthermore, the payoff that a company gains by adopting a customer-journey-at-scale approach can be significant. In our work, we have found that companies can realize 20- to 40-percentage-point improvements in customer advocacy, cost reductions of between 15% and 25%, and revenue increases of from 10% to 20%. (See Exhibit 1.) A study by MIT showed that companies that focus equally on transforming the customer experience and on achieving operational excellence outperform their peers by a significant amount, earning net margins that are 16 percentage points above their industry’s average. 3 3 Source: MIT Center for Information Systems Research (Sloan School of Management), 2015 CIO Digital Disruption Survey. Notes: 3 Source: MIT Center for Information Systems Research (Sloan School of Management), 2015 CIO Digital Disruption Survey.

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By organizing all customer-related change initiatives around the customer journey, a company effectively transforms its operating model. Instead of running dozens of uncoordinated initiatives that span business units and functional areas (and often create costly redundancies), the company reorganizes these change initiatives around a set of end-to-end customer missions. Because everyone—not just product and delivery teams, but also back-office and risk and support teams—is brought under the same tent, companies can avoid the kinds of tradeoffs that arise with a siloed organization and can produce better, less risky solutions. The new ways of working encourage faster decision making and greater employee engagement, both of which confer long-lasting benefits.

Done properly, a customer-journey-at-scale transformation can help companies optimize their digital and automation investments, in large part by reducing duplicative investments. Customer-journey-at-scale transformation thus does more than deliver optimal customer experiences; it also gives the organization a built-in capacity for continuous improvement. Change becomes a built-in capability, integral to the way the organization operates. This capability can have dramatic effects, particularly for large companies, where transformation often seems to happen at an elephant’s pace.

Getting It Right

A successful customer-journey-at-scale transformation involves four key elements: defining the transformation, designing the journeys, enabling and executing the transformation, and governing and funding the transformation. (See Exhibit 2.)

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Define the Transformation

In order to define the transformation, a company’s leaders must think holistically about the organizational requirements and implications of this integrated, customer-­centric approach.

Conceive journeys from the customer’s perspective. To truly understand how best to serve customers, companies must flip their focus 180 degrees and put themselves in their customers’ shoes. Most customers don’t care how the company is organized; if anything, they should be insulated from the company’s internal complexities. Customers have a need, and they expect it to be fulfilled as seamlessly as possible, regardless of the channel they choose to use in interacting with the company.

From the customer’s perspective, most of a company’s activities look like components of a fairly small set of end-to-end journeys, rather than like hundreds of isolated processes. So, for example, instead of designing its home mortgage in terms of its discrete component steps (the application process, loan origination, the appraisal process, and so on), a bank might conceive of it as a single customer journey—namely, “helping the customer buy a home.”

Each journey—such as becoming a customer (buying a product or service), using the company’s products or services, expanding the relationship (getting additional products or services), and resolving issues—­contains a set of subjourneys that in turn contain many other processes. For example, the journey “Help solve our problems and issues” might include such subjourneys as “Help me with information edits and inqui­ries,” “Help me with transactions I don’t recognize (fraud/dispute),” and “Help me close an account,” each of which involves a host of individual processes invisible to the customer.

Properly conceived, any customer journey involves many moving parts that the company must connect and orchestrate.

Factor in all the necessary functions and operations.  Many companies make the mistake of thinking that simply improving interactions at any given customer touchpoint constitutes creating a customer journey. But introducing a mobile app or dressing up a website or streamlining sales channels won’t necessarily produce a quicker or easier path to a better customer experience. When properly conceived, any customer journey involves many moving parts that the company must connect and orchestrate, including the behind-the-scenes middle and back offices and various support functions that have no direct contact with customers, such as marketing, product, operations, HR, finance, legal, risk, and compliance. So, when a customer clicks on “help me buy a home” online, that single action should set in motion a series of interconnected activities and responses that will carry the customer seamlessly through all of the steps, from automated application to funds received. The upshot is that most of the choices that the company makes about its internal processes, policies, and procedures could occur within the scope of the overall customer-journey-at-scale program.

Treat journeys collectively as a comprehensive effort rather than as separate projects.  Because the customer-journey-at-scale transformation is a long-term program, setting it up requires both thoughtfulness and boldness. As a first step, the company needs to develop a list of relevant journeys, evaluating the business benefits of each and tying the expected outcomes to the company’s overall strategy and purpose. These journeys then become the primary basis for organizing teams. The company should realign existing teams and initiatives in accordance with this new structure, and should fill any resource or skill gaps that result from adopting it. The company should also appoint high-potential talent as journey leaders, making them accountable for the overall journey outcomes.

To support the journey program, company leaders must activate a set of enablers. These should include modified incentive plans, performance management metrics, career growth plans and reporting structures for team members, training for senior leaders in the new ways of thinking and working, and suitable new workspaces for the colocated teams. It’s also important to establish a journey delivery center to serve as the heart of the transformation program. The delivery center will handle financial management, reporting, value tracking, and resourcing key talent, as well as managing partnerships and coordinating with other areas of the organization (such as procurement, finance, and human resources). The delivery center is also responsible for creating and maintaining the customer journey methodology and standards, in addi­tion to providing learning and development to journey team members.

Design the Journeys

Some companies give customers what they think the customers want—based mostly on cursory evidence or gut instinct—but often they guess wrong. Designing customer journeys takes extensive, ongoing study and an innovation mindset.

Use human-centered design to gain a deep understanding of your customers.  Human-­centered design (HCD) puts the customer’s needs first. HCD can help companies craft products and services that resonate with customers and reinforce their engagement with the company. This approach to design entails ethnographic studies, in-depth interviews, and quantitative research. It also requires an understanding of the many kinds of customers that the company might serve—their demographics, attitudes, motivations, behaviors, and unmet needs. Because customer needs and preferences are constantly changing, research is not a one-and-done operation. It’s important to invest in building capabilities for continuous testing with customers.

Use zero-based design to reimagine journeys.  To reimagine customer journeys effectively, companies can’t allow their existing capabilities, systems, organizational structure, or resources to constrain them. The best way to reimagine journeys is through an approach known as zero-based design: starting from a clean slate to develop innovative solutions that truly address the customer’s needs. For example, if the goal were to devise a novel way to bank, the company might start by asking, “If a digital native were to start a bank, how would it approach the task?”

Human-centered design can help companies craft products and services that resonate with customers and reinforce their engagement.

In contrast to business process reengineering initiatives, which seek incremental improvements to current processes, customer journey designs seek fresh solutions, which could mean eliminating a process as it currently exists.

Future-proof your design.  Transforming customer journeys involves adopting state-of-the-art digital technology and tools such as robotics, artificial intelligence, automation, and machine learning. Digital technologies and tools can help streamline or even replace existing processes—for example, by auto-filling applications, identifying next-best offers, or performing real-time error checking. By integrating these processes into a journey program, rather than adopting them in separate initiatives, companies can obtain a better return on investment.

Enable and Execute the Transformation

Organizing for customer journeys at scale calls for more diffuse decision making and faster action. These, in turn, require innovative approaches to configuring teams, new ways of working, and the right mix of talent and skills.

Organizing for customer journeys calls for more diffuse decision making and faster action.

Appoint dedicated cross-functional teams.  Every customer journey requires contributions from talent throughout the organization, so the journey team should be composed of members from every relevant business and functional area. The cross-­functional team brings together designers, analysts, process engineers, data scientists, developers, business managers, technology specialists, and other personnel.

Representation from every part of the organization ensures that the relevant skills are on hand, that all stakeholders remain up to speed on project progress and issues, and that they can work together to quickly overcome roadblocks. People from support functions such as Legal, Risk, Compliance, HR, and Finance should also contribute to design from the outset. Finally, members of each journey team should be colocated to ensure optimal coordination.

Over time, the silos disappear. People retain their functional area affiliations but move away from functionally based organizations and toward journeys. As execution commences, journeys become home base for the team, whose members now show up for work in journey rooms, rather than in physical departments. The functionally based organizations remain as horizontal constructs that focus chiefly on building skills and maintaining standards.

Invest in the right talent.  Ideally, every journey team will have a good mix of talent, with skills in such areas as human-­centric research, lean process engineering, UI/UX design, scrum (the agile process framework), and data science. But the right talent has more than technical know-how. Journey team members should be risk takers, iconoclasts, and high-potentials.

Often, companies discover that they do not need to hire new people in order to launch a customer-journey-at-scale transformation. Many companies that we have worked with around the world have successfully used existing resources or have trained people, both formally and on the job. Creating and launching their initial journey programs enabled these companies to develop a ­cadre of experienced practitioners who then went on to lead and support other journey programs.

Embrace agile principles.  Agile ways of working profoundly influence product development and delivery in a wide range of industries. Agile’s core principles—aim for action over deliberation and for speed over perfection, and think big but implement gradually—are tailor-made for creating customer journeys. So are its key characteristics, most notably the basic work unit consisting of small, self-guided, multidisciplinary teams that work iteratively.

Customer journey teams should first identify small-scale, straightforward initiatives that can begin producing results in less than four weeks.

The tasks of working and thinking in agile ways call for a fundamental change in an organization’s culture and values—in particular with regard to its bias toward action. Customer journey teams should therefore identify small-scale, straightforward initiatives requiring minimal technology change that can begin producing results in less than four weeks. Meanwhile, as they pursue the target ideal—or North Star—journey, each team should strive to produce a minimum viable product every 12 to 16 weeks. Leaders should encourage a fail-fast mentality so that teams can cut their losses on initiatives that don’t work out and can shift nimbly to the next promising idea.

Govern and Fund the Transformation

The highly variable structures and cadences of customer journey work mean that companies must adapt their process of governing, their incentives system, and their approach to funding.

Promote a data-driven culture committed to value generation.  Companies need to know that every journey-at-scale program is creating value—and if one is not, they need to know what to do to correct its course. A comprehensive method for governing and for tracking progress is critically important, especially given the many interdependencies that customer journeys entail. Tools such as balanced scorecards that track financial, operational, and customer metrics are well suited for continuously tracking performance.

Empower teams and align incentives.  Effective journey teams are largely self-­driven. Leaders set high-level objectives but let the teams make day-to-day design and implementation decisions, as long as they meet their targets and conform to the business’s strategy. This autonomy does not lead to anarchy or mayhem, as some people might expect. Leaders still make the strategic decisions and define KPIs for the teams. They also hold biweekly check-ins with teams. Together, these practices produce a higher level of transparency than we find in traditional organizations.

Owing to the radically different nature of journey teams, traditional performance metrics are not useful for assessing them. Each team member’s KPIs should mirror the journey scorecard to ensure that its goals and incentives are aligned with journey outcomes. Each team has an appointed journey owner who is responsible for adhering to goals and aligning with stakeholders on important decisions. In place of briefings, senior leaders engage with their teams in person in the journey rooms. In addition to encouraging frequent leader and team feedback, the governance model includes a built-in escalation mechanism.

Devise a persistent funding model.  Customer-journey-at-scale transformation quashes the proliferation of business cases (which often total in the hundreds) that are associated with multiple change initiatives. It also avoids project-­based funding that starts and stops every few months. Because they function as on­going programs, journeys receive dedicated, multiyear funding to ensure that teams can achieve the desired results. Unlike traditional projects, how­ever, journey programs are not funded blindly at the start of the budget cycle. Thanks to the transparency and ongoing measurement of the programs, companies have the flexibility to modify funding in response to performance.

The Secret to Success Lies in Scale

Companies realize the most profound benefit of the customer journey transformation only when they have mobilized the ­entire organization around journeys. Over time, as more journeys emerge and gain scale, the company’s change initiatives are ultimately organized around journeys. (See Exhibit 3.)

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Reorganizing around customer journeys is a transformational endeavor. Companies can’t build journeys discretely or in isolation; they need to reconfigure the way the organi­zation and its people work and improve and track progress. But with a new orientation and approach—and with digital strength and fluency in change—any company can coherently, consistently, and fully act on its belief that the customer is the center of its universe. By tapping the power of a customer-journey-at-scale transformation, even elephants can sprint.

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A journeyman, journeywoman, or journeyperson is a worker, skilled in a given building trade or craft, who has successfully completed an official apprenticeship qualification. Journeymen are considered competent and authorized to work in that field as a fully qualified employee. They earn their license by education, supervised experience and examination. Although journeymen have completed a trade certificate and are allowed to work as employees, they may not yet work as self-employed master craftsmen.The term "journeyman" was originally used in the medieval trade guilds. Journeymen were paid daily and the word "journey" is derived from journée, meaning "whole day" in French. Each individual guild generally recognised three ranks of workers: apprentices, journeymen, and masters. A journeyman, as a qualified tradesman could become a master and run their own business, but most continued working as employees.Guidelines were put in place to promote responsible tradesmen, who were held accountable for their own work and to protect the individual trade and the general public from unskilled workers. To become a master, a journeyman has to submit a master piece of work to a guild for evaluation. Only after evaluation can a journeyman be admitted to the guild as a master. Sometimes, a journeyman was required to accomplish a three-year working trip, which may be called the journeyman years.

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Certain occupations, trades and crafts categorize jobs by skill, education and knowledge. This is mandated by federal or state registration boards or developed in the private sector. Employees in these occupations typically start at apprentice levels and progress to journey-level positions.

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Section 31, Song of Myself

Whitman on a rock. A 1878 photo by Napoleon Sarony.

Whitman on the rocks.  A dramatic staging by celebrity photographer Napoleon Sarony  (1878).

As we have seen, one of Whitman’s great accomplishments in “Song of Myself” is to capture in language what it is like to live in a body, to experience the ways our senses absorb the vast multiplicity of the world. Now, in this section, Whitman accomplishes something never before attempted: he captures what it is like to inhabit an evolved body. As he delights in the sights, sounds, aromas, tastes, and touches of the things of the world, he realizes that his human body is not only the result of vast evolutionary changes through eons of time but is part of an ongoing, nonstop process of an endless proliferation of life in an infinite variety of forms. Evolution does not culminate in humans; rather we humans are but one of that vast accumulation of life forms. Humans all begin life as a zygote, a one-celled creature, then grow in some compressed nine-month evolution from that one cell to a small creature with gills and a tail, living immersed in a liquid environment: gestation is a compressed evolution, so at some level every human has experienced life as a single cell, life as an aquatic creature. When we are born, Whitman suggests, we emerge with a human body that has in less than a year retraced evolution, and we “can call any thing back again” when we desire it—all the organic things that we “incorporate,” from moss to fruit to birds and quadrupeds. As science continues to indicate, all life forms derive from the same ancestral single cell, and our body is “stucco’d . . . all over” with the traces of other life forms that have accompanied us on evolution’s journey—our arms are extensions of the same forms that in other creatures emerge as wings, our fingernails and toenails are vestigial claws. Whitman begins this section with a simple statement of faith, a belief in the miraculous nature of everything from a leaf of grass to a cow “crunching” the grass in a meadow. He knows every leaf of grass is “no less than the journey-work of the stars,” since it is made up of the same atoms that once were packed together with the atoms that form constellations (and that leaf of grass, after all, seen from afar out in the universe, is—like each of us—in fact simply part of a constellation). Observing the way a joint of a finger is more complex than the most intricate machinery, or how the tiny miracle of a mouse, fully appreciated, makes believers of those who might be without faith in the creative power of life, the poet descends and ascends the evolutionary scales, taking an exhilarating imaginative ride up and down evolutionary charts, getting in touch with the myriad of creatures inscribed on and in our body, and loving every one. Nothing can stop this eternally altering, shifting, evolving material creation, and all the vast violence of the universe’s forming, the “plutonic rocks” hurtling through space, the massive creatures that have come and gone (like the “mastadon” and the dinosaur), the tectonic shifts of the continents, the drying up and reformation of oceans—all of it has been “in vain” if it has tried to undermine the life that inhabits the present moment, because that life is here, and it is here in the form of all of us now inhabiting a body, one that can travel in the imagination with our relatives the buzzards high in the sky, or with the auk in Labrador, or take its rest in the hawk’s or eagle’s aerie. It’s all “in vain” because, as Whitman indicates with this pun, that teeming past is literally in our veins, part of our very blood. We inhabit a form that is inscribed with the life of the world, a form that shapes us to experience the present until our body reforms into other forms that will then experience other presents.

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  • Song of Myself, Section 31 —read by Eric Forsythe
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If Wordsworth depicts the growth of the poet’s mind in The Prelude , establishing a model for the workings of the creative intelligence, which has informed artistic practice down to the present, then Whitman addresses in this section its cosmic model, “the journey work of the stars,” which is a grander view of creation. “Evolution is not the rule in Nature, in Politics, or Inventions only, but in Verse,” Whitman wrote—a bold claim borne out by his radical poetics. Indeed he insisted that “ Leaves of Grass is evolution—evolution in its most varied, freest, largest sense.” Free verse was for him not only a way of thinking but a spur to innovation—in the language, in the body politic, and in the body itself, “compend of compends,” which incorporates everything from the lowly pismire and plutonic rocks to the razor-billed auk sailing north. The poet always follows. One spring morning, walking along a beach by the Pacific, under an eroding cliff which from time to time sheds heavy layers of sandstone, my friend recalled seeing a clutch of baby rattlesnakes fall from a fissure a hundred feet above us. Why their den was located in such an exposed place was a mystery to my friend, who not long before had acquired a condominium on top of a cliff farther up the beach. Maybe they liked the view, I joked. Bad luck, she replied, and went on to speculate on what role luck might play in evolution. What good luck, I thought, that in his imagination Whitman kept ascending “to the nest in the fissure of the cliff,” opening himself to the elements and the risks of evolution, physical and spiritual, poetic and political. He believed that American democracy would continue to evolve, along the same line as “Song of Myself,” which he knew contained the seeds of future poems, in every language, as well as fruits and grains, gneiss and esculent roots, sunlight and the sand beneath our feet…

By imagining a body produced by the forces of evolution, Whitman illustrates one way that (as he said in the preface to the 1855 Leaves of Grass ) scientists are the “lawgivers of poets.” How is a body that is imagined as an evolved thing different from a body that is imagined as a divinely created thing? Is it possible to imagine an evolved body to have been made in the image of God?

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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Fr. journée — jour , a day—L. diurnus .

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After all, life's a journey, and you're making a lot of stops these days: to work and the gym every day, from one coast to the other for business, vacations, staycations, romantic dinner dates, and non-romantic court dates. mensjournal.com

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In 2011 I journeyed out of state looking for work, adventure and a fresh start on life. newsminer.com

Or doctorate is an exciting journey, but starting down that path can also be a little scary, especially if you're adding it to a busy work/life schedule. minoritynurse.com

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NYRB Classics is publisher of five of Zweig's works: the novellas Chess Story, Journey Into the Past, and Confusion. nybooks.com

"Be the Artist of Your Own Life's Work, 101 Ways to Make This Dream a Reality," by Sequim author Cath Mich, is a self-help guidebook designed to support and encourage the journey of self-discovery. sequimgazette.com

I'll take you on a journey into the computer world and explain in simple terms how it all works. lahainanews.com

In day 7 of our Life Balance series, we urge high achievers — whose journey to excellence can be filled with reward, hard work, and quite a bit of stress — to find the courage to be faithful. blackenterprise.com

Illegal migrants have long attempted the perilous journey from Haiti by boat to the islands to find work. vancouversun.com

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In day 4 of our Life Balance series, we urge high achievers — whose journey to excellence can be filled with reward, hard work, and quite a bit of stress — to tap into that P.O. W.E.R. blackenterprise.com

This paper explores the implementation of existing work on a parameterized random journey of a bipartite paper-author graph, which was defined in . Publication Induced Research Analysis (PIRA) - Experiments on Real Data

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And the girl, journeying in the subway to and from her work! "Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930" by Various

Ten weeks' work, my journey, my exhibition! "Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit)" by Frank Wedekind

It was not in the nature of their work to question the characters of those whom they encountered upon their journey. "The Hound From The North" by Ridgwell Cullum

Having finished, sealed and dispatched this letter, Mary Grey went to work and packed her three great trunks for her journey. "Victor's Triumph" by Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

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'Welcome to the moon': Odysseus becomes 1st American lander to reach the moon in 52 years

Houston-based intuitive machines' lander is now the first commercial spacecraft to ever land on the surface of the moon, and the first american craft to do so since nasa's final apollo mission in 1972.

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For the first time in more than five decades, Americans have returned to the moon .

Well, American robots, at least.

A week after launching aboard a SpaceX rocket, the uncrewed Odysseus spacecraft gently touched down on the surface of the moon late Thursday, ushering in a historic moon landing.

The lander, designed and operated by Houston-based Intuitive Machines , is now the first commercial spacecraft to ever land on the moon. The lunar landing is also the first by an American-built spacecraft since NASA's final Apollo mission in 1972.

"Houston, Odysseus has found its new home," Stephen Altemus, president and CEO of Intuitive Machines, said shortly after the landing at 5:23 p.m. CST.

The announcement came about 10 minutes after it happened after some communications challenges. Tension built as the team behind the IM-1 mission waited for confirmation with bated breath.

"I know this was a nail-biter, but we are on the surface and we are transmitting," Altemus said. "Welcome to the moon."

What is the Odysseus lunar lander?

Nicknamed for the Greek hero of Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey," the Odysseus lander hitched a ride to orbit last Thursday aboard the  SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket , which launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Read more: What Odysseus will do now .

Intuitive Machines built the Odysseus to carry cargo for NASA and other private customers to the lunar surface for its  IM-1 mission . Formally called a Nova-C, the lander is a 14-foot-tall  hexagonal cylinder  with six legs that the space company has operated from a mission control center in Houston.

A failed lunar lander attempt

Odysseus may be the first privately built spacecraft to reach the moon, but it's hardly the first to try.

In January, Pittsburgh-based aerospace company Astrobotic sent its Peregrine lander on a doomed mission to the moon that ended with the spacecraft  burning up in Earth's atmosphere  days later.

Shortly after the craft separated from the United Launch Alliance's  Vulcan  rocket, Peregrine's propulsion began  leaking a critical amount of propellant  that forced Astrobotic to abandon plans of landing on the moon.

Intuitive Machines lander's journey to the moon

Intuitive Machines encountered hiccups along the way – including temporary communication delays – but none so detrimental that it could threaten the mission.

After separating from the SpaceX rocket last week, it took the lander 48 minutes to reach its orbit before it established communication with ground control in Houston, Intuitive Machines said. An engine firing Friday  helped position the lander toward the moon and allowed flight controllers to determine that the engine burn and throttle systems needed to land were functioning as intended.

The tests set the Odysseus craft up to enter lunar orbit Wednesday ahead of its landing Thursday near the moon's south polar region. Scientists have long been interested in studying the south pole because of the water ice thought to be abundant within its craters.

Intuitive Machines is working with NASA

Intuitive Machines' lunar mission is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.

The U.S. space agency has a budget of  $2.6 billion in contracts  available through 2028 to pay private companies to place scientific payloads on private robotic landers like Odysseus bound for the lunar surface. The success of Intuitive Machines in putting a lander on the moon will now pave the way for NASA to work with more commercial entities on future space endeavors.

As the primary customer for the Odysseus mission, NASA paid Intuitive Machines $118 million to take its scientific payloads to the moon. The instruments will collect valuable data for NASA as it prepares to send astronauts back to the lunar surface for its Artemis program for the first time since the last Apollo mission 52 years ago.

NASA's Artemis program mission delayed

NASA had intended to launch its Artemis II astronauts into orbit by the end of the year on a 10-day trip circumnavigating the moon ahead of a moon landing itself a year later for Artemis III. But the Artemis program missions have since been delayed by at least a year after NASA encountered a slew of issues, including a battery flaw on the vehicle that will ferry astronauts to the moon.

Once NASA is  back on track in the years ahead , the agency intends to send a crew to the moon's south polar region, where it will will lay the groundwork for NASA to establish a permanent human presence on and around the moon ahead of future  missions to Mars .

Contributing: Amanda Lee Myers and Mike Snider.

Eric Lagatta covers breaking and trending news for USA TODAY. Reach him at [email protected]

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journey noun [C] ( TRIP )

  • She gave the children some sweets to chew on during the long car journey.
  • The journey was quite quick because the road was clear .
  • I expect you'd like to rest after your long journey.
  • We did the journey to Wales in five hours .
  • The train journey took us through a valley past rolling hills .
  • break-journey
  • circumnavigation

journey noun [C] ( EXPERIENCES )

  • advance the cause
  • advancement
  • formatively
  • from A to B idiom
  • progressive
  • progressively
  • punctuated equilibrium

journey noun [C] ( BOOK )

  • absorptive capacity
  • acquisition
  • hit the books idiom
  • mug (something) up
  • non-academic
  • recognition
  • subspecialty
  • swot up (something)
  • uncredentialed
  • around Robin Hood's barn idiom
  • communication
  • super-commuting
  • transoceanic
  • well travelled

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Yes, our driver’s licenses give our real birthday. No, you’re not the first person to joke that we’re too young to drink or drive. A Feb. 29 baby demystifies the quadrennial calendar quirk.

A close-up of a calendar page shows a square with the number “29” in it and a message that says “Leap Year Day.”

By Remy Tumin

Remy Tumin was born on leap day. In off years, she celebrates on Feb. 28.

My mom tells the story the same way every year.

I was two weeks late and my heartbeat had slowed briefly, as it turns out, because I was squeezing my umbilical cord, and the obstetrician said it was time for my grand arrival. So when I was born on the evening of Feb. 29, my grandfather took partial credit.

“I knew she would do it,” he said.

He, too, was a leap day baby, more than 60 years my senior.

The calendar accounts for Earth’s imperfect rotation by adding an extra day in February every four years. It is a science developed over millenniums, dating back to the ancient Egyptians, and one that creates a birthday conundrum for an estimated 5 million people worldwide. The chances of being born on Feb. 29 are 1 in 1,461.

Approximately 362,900 Americans have a Feb. 29 birthday, according to the Social Security Administration. By comparison, about 1.6 million can say they were born on March 1.

Some might find the idea of a Feb. 29 birthday peculiar, even undesirable. We think it’s special. People who celebrate a birthday every year? We call them “annuals.”

Yes, our driver’s licenses give our real birth date. No, you’re not the first person to joke that we’re too young to drink or drive. Here’s what else to know about leap year.

Why do we have leap years?

The most common explanation is to keep the calendar in step with the seasons. In science class you might have learned that it takes the Earth 365 days to orbit the sun, but it actually takes about 365.25 days. Adding an extra day once very four years keeps it balanced.

Without leap years, which are also known as bissextile years , “eventually summer would be in November or December 100 years from now,” said Robert C. Washington III, a graduate researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and a Ph.D. student at Howard University.

By the 16th century, Easter kept drifting later into the year. Pope Gregory XIII introduced his own system to keep Easter in March or April, moving the calendar from the Julian system (which adds a leap year every four years) to the Gregorian (which adds a leap year every four years, except in century years that are not divisible by 400; for example, there was no leap day in 1900, but there was one in 2000).

Duncan Steel, the author of “Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar,” said the Romans chose to add the extra day in February for two reasons: They considered it to be an unlucky month, and it was the month that came before Easter.

“It’s been a matter of gradual refinement,” he said.

A more accurate system, he said, is the Jalali calendar from Iran, which has eight leap years in a 33-year cycle.

‘Leaplings’ find creative ways to celebrate.

In leap years, we go hard.

Anthony, Texas, and Anthony, N.M., which share a state line, have been known for decades as the “Leap Year Capital of the World.” A leap year baby who lived in the Texas town persuaded the governors of both states to declare it so in 1988 after a flurry of Feb. 29 birthdays.

The community has celebrated leap day with a parade between the two towns, but this year, the Texas side is hosting a weekend-long festival .

Others prefer to head to sea. For the second consecutive leap day (that is to say, the first one since 2020), Karen Tinsley-Sroka has organized a cruise for leap day babies .

“Over the course of my life, I had only met three leap day babies, and here I was surrounded with 78 of them,” she said.

So-called off years present a different issue: When to celebrate?

“I love when people ask me, ‘Do you celebrate on Feb. 28 or March 1?’” said Raenell Dawn, a co-founder of Honor Society of Leap Year Day Babies . “I get to tell them, ‘Both, because I can.’ But I’m a February baby; I was not born in March.”

An informal poll of the society’s members showed about a 50-50 split between the two dates, said Ms. Dawn, who is celebrating her “Sweeter 16” by turning 64 this year.

‘This is a fun birthday.’

Eric Grossman, an obstetrician in southern New Jersey who was born on Feb. 29, estimates he’s delivered about a dozen leap day babies over the past 20 years, including two sisters born four years apart .

“A lot of people are anxious about the idea of having a leap day baby,” he said. “I try to reassure parents that your kid is not going to know any different. This is a fun birthday.”

He helps by sharing memories of his own childhood.

“I would get a birthday cake on the 28th and I would get a birthday on the first day of March,” he said. “It’s better to do it twice.”

What kinds of issues do leap day babies face?

From time to time, leap day babies can face administrative headaches. Sometimes Feb. 29 does not appear in a drop-down menu. Some states used to require that driver’s licenses expire on the driver’s exact birthday. There have even been reports of inaccurate birth certificates .

Another obstacle: Turning 21 can be a fiasco if it falls on an off year. Ms. Tinsley-Sroka turned 21 when she was living in Rapid City, Okla., and called the police to make sure she wouldn’t be arrested for underage drinking if she went out on Feb. 28. They gave her a pass, she said. She also called several bars ahead of time to see if they would serve her. One agreed.

“I pulled up, showed my ID,” she recalled. “They said, ‘Oh, we’ve been waiting for you!’”

Yes, there are famous leap day babies.

We are not many, but we are mighty.

Famous people with leap day birthdays include Ja Rule, the hip-hop artist; Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain; the actor Dennis Farina; Dinah Shore, the actress and television personality; Tony Robbins, the motivational speaker; and Pope Paul III, who was born on Feb. 29, 1468.

Perhaps the most famous fictional character born on a leap day is Superman .

What does the zodiac suggest?

For those who follow astrology, leap day babies fall under the last sign on the zodiac, Pisces — known for being intuitive, sensitive, dreamy and creative souls, Chani Nicholas, an astrologer, said. But no more than anyone else born during this season.

“We hate to break it to you,” she said in an email. “But leap day babies are exactly as special as their other Pisces siblings.”

Another astrologer, Rose Theodora, said in an email that because Feb. 29 comes around only every four years, celebrating on that day makes “a person younger than everyone else born in the same year” and experience “reverse aging.”

Pisces are associated with the planets Jupiter, which is associated with luck, and Neptune, which has nebulous qualities, Ms. Theodora said, “so it makes sense that Leap Day babies would have a day that also disappears for three years at a time.”

Until 2028 …

Remy Tumin is a reporter for The Times covering breaking news and other topics. More about Remy Tumin

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  1. Journeywork Definition & Meaning

    The meaning of JOURNEYWORK is work done by a journeyman.

  2. JOURNEYWORK definition in American English

    Definition of 'journeywork' Word Frequency. Share. ... [1595-1605; journey a day's work (obs.) + work] This word is first recorded in the period 1595-1605. Other words that entered English at around the same time include: density, domain, option, posture, zero. Word Frequency.

  3. JOURNEYWORK definition and meaning

    2 meanings: rare 1. necessary, routine, and menial work 2. the work of a journeyman.... Click for more definitions.

  4. journey-work, n. meanings, etymology and more

    The earliest known use of the noun journey-work is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for journey-work is from 1601, in the writing of William Cornwallis, essayist. journey-work is formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: journey n.

  5. JOURNEYWORK Definition & Usage Examples

    Journeywork definition: . See examples of JOURNEYWORK used in a sentence.

  6. Journey Definition & Meaning

    journey: [noun] something suggesting travel or passage from one place to another.

  7. Journeyman Definition & Meaning

    journeyman: [noun] a worker who has learned a trade and works for another person usually by the day.

  8. Journeywork

    Define journeywork. journeywork synonyms, journeywork pronunciation, journeywork translation, English dictionary definition of journeywork. n. The work of a journeyman or journeywoman.

  9. journeywork

    journeywork - WordReference English dictionary, questions, discussion and forums. All Free.

  10. Journeywork Definition & Meaning

    Journeywork definition: The work of a journeyman. Find Similar Words Find similar words to journeywork using the buttons below.

  11. What Is a Journeyman? (Plus Skills and Career Paths)

    A journeyman is a professional who is skilled in a specific trade and works for a company. They also are known as journey-level workers and journeypersons. These professionals complete an apprenticeship within a trade and gain certifications and licenses required to work on job sites independently. Journeymen can choose to work for a company or ...

  12. Journeyman

    Journeyman. A journeyman is a worker, skilled in a given building trade or craft, who has successfully completed an official apprenticeship qualification. Journeymen are considered competent and authorized to work in that field as a fully qualified employee. They earn their license by education, supervised experience and examination. [1]

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  14. Meaning of "journeywork" in the English dictionary

    necessary, routine, and menial work.the work of a journeyman. List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our and most widely used expressions with the word «journeywork». The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «journeywork» during the past 500 years.

  15. What does journey-work mean?

    Definition of journey-work in the Definitions.net dictionary. Meaning of journey-work. Information and translations of journey-work in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web.

  16. JOURNEY

    JOURNEY meaning: 1. the act of travelling from one place to another, especially in a vehicle: 2. a set of…. Learn more.

  17. What Does Journey-Level Mean?

    Definition of Journey Level. After an employee has undergone sufficient on-the-job training or completed a formal apprenticeship, a promotion to journey level normally occurs. The worker's promotion depends on knowledge and expertise.

  18. Section 31

    If Wordsworth depicts the growth of the poet's mind in The Prelude, establishing a model for the workings of the creative intelligence, which has informed artistic practice down to the present, then Whitman addresses in this section its cosmic model, "the journey work of the stars," which is a grander view of creation."Evolution is not the rule in Nature, in Politics, or Inventions ...

  19. Journey

    journey: 1 n the act of traveling from one place to another Synonyms: journeying Types: show 43 types... hide 43 types... commute a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work drive , ride a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile) long haul a journey over a long distance mush a journey by dogsled odyssey a long ...

  20. journey

    journey meaning, definition, what is journey: an occasion when you travel from one pla...: Learn more. ... especially to a dangerous or unfamiliar place Scott's expedition to the Antarctic a military expedition commute the journey to and from work that someone does every day People are fed up with the daily commute on overcrowded trains ...

  21. Song of Myself, 31

    I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a chef-d'oeuvre for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any ...

  22. Journey-work Definition, Meaning & Usage

    Journey to Work also in Census 2001; it gives the ward population and ward to ward commuting flows. Gravity vs radiation model: on the importance of scale and heterogeneity in commuting flows. On his everyday commute from home to work at 50 km/h, a man always met his nanny, heading to his house, halfway on his journey to work.

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  25. JOURNEY

    JOURNEY definition: 1. the act of travelling from one place to another, especially in a vehicle: 2. a set of…. Learn more.

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