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to work (colloquial version)Chambear is just the verb form of
chamba.
So yeah, you can think of it as the informal version of
trabajar.
And it
IS informal; Erika has genuinely told me not to use it so much before!
Want some examples?
Well, Félix the fruit seller / underground rapper used it
10 TIMES when I interviewed him!
At approx. 03:21:
La neta, yo ya no quería yo chambear en eso…Honestly, I didn’t want to do that work anymore…
At approx. 05:34:
Ya te relajabas chido, y aguantabas otro ratito chambeando…You’d relax nicely, and you could keep working a little longer…
At approx. 12:34:
Pues, ya hay vatos aquí chambeando, no les ha pasado nada…Well, there are already guys working here, and nothing’s happened to them…