職
しょく · shoku · JLPT N3 · noun
employment
💼 職 = ear 耳 + sound 音 + halberd 戈: hear your orders, take up your post
The character stacks ear (耳), sound (音) and halberd (戈): a guard who listens for commands and holds a post. That duty became the sense of job or employment. Shoku echoes the English word shock, as in the shock of a first job.