I describe an inexperienced novice on the job, a bitter monster born of envy, and the emerald hills celebrated each seventeenth of March. What shade am I?
Green
The color green puns on being naive ('greenhorn'), the 'green-eyed monster' of jealousy, and the traditional color of Ireland.
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