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Deadlock Clock: Oct 29th 2014 at 11:59:00 PM
eroock Since: Sep, 2012
#1: Sep 18th 2014 at 4:59:56 PM

Workaholic and Married to the Job revolve around the same topic, only that Married to the Job deals more with the impact it has on personal relationships. Still, the overlap is so big, that I would call for motion to merge.

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#2: Sep 19th 2014 at 1:05:24 AM

Looking over the two tropes and their examples, I'm not seeing nearly enough cause for merging. However, what does need to happen is making sure that the examples are on the pages they need to be on...skimming through Workaholic, I saw a few that read like they'd be better suited for Married to the Job.

NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#3: Sep 20th 2014 at 11:38:28 AM

The difference seems to be that Workaholic is about characters who work a lot in general, while Married to the Job is about people who work a lot and this is specifically detrimental to their personal life. The latter is probably a subtrope.

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Xtifr World's Toughest Milkman Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
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#4: Sep 25th 2014 at 5:58:05 PM

I suspect you can be Married to the Job without being a workaholic. I don't know if it's ever occurred in fiction, but I think it's—barely—possible: no life outside of work, no interests outside of work, but only clocking in forty hours. Just a very, very boring person the rest of the time. And probably not very intelligent.

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Venatius Since: Jul, 2011
#5: Sep 25th 2014 at 11:50:58 PM

Maybe rather than just a "See Also", the pages could explain their distinction from one another? It might help keep the sheep from the goats, so to speak.

Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#6: Sep 26th 2014 at 6:03:44 AM

[up] I added commented-out notes about the differences to the pages so when people edit them they're the first things they see, but that's not a bad idea either.

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#7: Oct 26th 2014 at 1:22:01 AM

Clocking for inactivity.

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#8: Oct 30th 2014 at 1:20:59 AM

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