Is it "hand job" or "handjob"?
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Student gets first hand-job experience
Student gets first hand-job, experience
In that example, it should have been first-hand or firsthand. When multiple words are used together as an adjective, in this case an adjective-noun pair, those two should become hyphenated. I just wrote another example -- it's 'adjective-noun' because the two words are used as an adjective for pair, even though they would not ordinarily be hyphenated.
For the same reason, asking "is it 'first hand' or 'first-hand'" would be meaningless, because it depends on the context, unless a stylistic choice is made to write 'firsthand' instead
That's a Hugh Jass car.
Mike Hunt learned a valuable lesson that day.
Fun fact, there was an actual Michael Hundt who wrote fencing manuals right near the end of the medieval period into the Renaissance.
Was it from uncle Jack and his horse?
It's the only job opportunity the clankers haven't taken from us yet.
I remember my first handjob mentoring day. They sent out a blast email for all the students to bring their own lube and I remember Jackie brought in a quart of Valvoline motor oil. 🤣
Oxford commas, people.
Also hyphens will work.

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