'do actual work' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that someone is actually doing something productive or useful. For example, "If I'm going to finish this project on time, I need to stop procrastinating and do actual work."
The New Castle, built by Richard Trevithick in 1803, the first locomotive to do actual work.
I'm spoiled by the fact that I've been getting paid to sing so it's hard to consider other careers where I might have to do actual work.
In a more substantive way, though, the lack of a United States Senate contest in Connecticut is allowing Mr. Lieberman to do actual work, like crisscrossing the state last week to visit schools and push for a major new education bill.
Roche says the goal is to be sure that every employee is ready when he or she sits down to do actual work.
Good candidates won't mind this extra step, because they know they'll cruise through it…and because they'd rather do actual work than spend days being interviewed.
"I think their issue is not with walking, but with... having to do actual work instead of just showing up".
The other place to report money earned by doing actual work is on Schedule C. That's where I put income from books, talks, pamphleteering.
I like tablets as home-based devices to consume content, but for doing actual "work," I think a laptop is superior.
This does not sound like the young man who once chose abstract art at university in order to avoid doing actual work.
"Anything we can do to keep people from doing actual work during the day, that's the idea," Dan Sherman of Ski.com said with a laugh.
How did YouTube successfully give me more and more videos to choose from that kept me from leaving and doing actual work?
