Invalid escape sequence (valid ones are \b \t \n \f \r \” \’ \\ )

You need to escape the “\” in the file path.

BufferedReader job = new BufferedReader 
               (new FileReader("\\My Documents\\JOBS\\newfile.txt"));

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