Eight of Pentacles
Upright
Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business, perhaps in the preparatory stage.
Reversed
Voided ambition, vanity, cupidity, exaction, usury. It may also signify the possession of skill, in the sense of the ingenious mind turned to cunning and intrigue.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2The picture
An artist in stone at his work, which he exhibits in the form of trophies.
Older readings
A young man in business who has relations with the Querent; a dark girl. Reversed: The Querent will be compromised in a matter of money-lending.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §4. Waite collected these and says they often disagree with the main meanings.Waite wrote in 1911 and some of his meanings show it. Tarot is a tradition of reflection, not a prediction, and no card decides anything for you.