Yakka

yak-ka* (yk)

noun
1. Work.
The hard part of having a few days off is going back to yakka.

Synonyms: activity, assignment, art, attempt, calling, commission, commitment, contract, craft, daily grind, drudge, drudgery, do, duty, effort, elbow grease, employment, endeavor, exertion, gig, grind, grindstone, industry, job, line, livelihood, moil, nine-to-five, obligation, office, pains, performance, practice, profession, production, pursuit, push, racket, salt mines, servitude, slogging, slot, specialization, struggle, stint, sweat, swindle, task, thing, trade, travail, trial, trouble, undertaking, vocation.

verb
1. To work.
Saying I yakka all weekend sounds more fun than working.

Synonyms: act, application, apply one's self, article, be gainfully employed, buckle down, carry on, create, composition, deed, dig, do a job, do business, drive, dreg, drudge, earn a living, freelance, function, handicraft, have a job, hold a job, hustle, knuckle down, labour, manage, manufacture, moil, moonlight, nine-to-five, peg away, performance, plug away, ply, punch a clock, pursue, report, scratch, slave, slog, specialize, strain, strive, sweat, take on, toil, try.**

* Australian colloquialism.
** See, doesn't yakka sound more fun than all that?