Working Nine to Five Work is described in many different ways
because it varies from one person to the other. Whether your job
requires going to school full-time, taking care of children, or
working as a service provider, it is all described as work. As
shown in Chapter 6, to sign “work,” use both “S” hands, palms
facing down. Tap your right wrist on the back of your left fist
a few times. The sign for work can have movement variations that
are used to indicate intonation and degree of intensity. When
signing “work,” you can demonstrate how hard you might have
worked by increasing the intensity and the speed with which one
hand strikes against the other. Suppose you had a day at work
when things went smoothly. You can also demonstrate this kind of
easy workday by changing the intensity to a slower, softer
tapping of the fists. So it's off to work you go. The start and
the end times of your job are very important. You've already
learned some of the time signs in Chapter 12; therefore, you
know how to point to