religion / teaching / to make / to cause / to tell
教
=
孝
+
攵
:
Joan of Arc joined an apocalyptic religious sect that taught her to dig her own grave. Wearing a mourning veil, she breaks the floor of the aorta's bathroom open using a sledgehammer.
职
=
只
+
耳
:
James II of England (zh) has to visit the governmental office (职) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2) to ask about his taxes. There's a cuttlefish (只) on duty, and James literally has the cuttlefish's ear (耳).
工
=
二
+
丨
:
Mnemonic symbol: a steel beam, since 工 looks like the cross section of a steel beam.
Gitta Giraffe (gu) is working a shift in front of the engine ((e)ng1). Her job is to melt dinosaur bones (丨) so that they can be disposed off easily. To melt the bones, she is shorting a huge capacitor (二) with a steel beam (工) which consequently heats up to a bright glow. Using the glowing hot steel beam she can melt the dinosaur bone easily.