Sentences with phrase «barely scraping by»

Landis, a Vietnam combat veteran, helped grow VVSD from an organization that was barely scraping by to its current $ 16 million budget.

There were some slower months when I felt as if I was barely scraping by because I put pressure on myself to not only to pay my bills, but save for all my savings goals.

Personally, I'm barely scraping by financially..

So even if you're making a decent living, you can go for long stretches feeling like you're barely scraping by.

I really felt like I was fending for myself and barely scraping by throughout the game, as every animal sighting was like a gift from on - high.

Barely scraping by a major boss fight that you've failed at 10 times is fun.

High scoring performances will unlock extra content so there's reason to go back and try again if you're barely scraping by.

There's always the sense that you're floundering all the time, barely scraping by as your soldiers come home missing limbs or even eyes and you attempt to gather together enough coin to keep your warband paid.

The loans could be potentially forgiven in bankruptcy if your parents could prove that even after the ICR program that the repayment created an undue hardship and they were just barely scraping by.

At a young age your money is worth a lot more than when you're old because of how long it can work for you; invest it wisely and it will grow rapidly, squander it on frivolous things and you'll end up barely scraping by your whole life.

The other possible reason for not taking the matching funds are if the required contributions would put you in a significant bind — if you're barely scraping by, and you can't squeeze enough savings out of your budget that you'd risk default on a loan (eg, car or house) or might take penalties for late fees on your utilities, it might be preferable to save up for a bit before starting the contributions — especially if you've maxed your available credit so you can't just push stuff to credit cards as a last resort.

Robert @ The College Investor writes Things Not to Spend Money on in College — At a young age your money is worth a lot more than when you're old because of how long it can work for you; invest it wisely and it will grow rapidly, squander it on frivolous things and you'll end up barely scraping by your whole life.

You know what barely scraping by feels like, the importance of picking the right career, and the value of financial freedom.

When you have already cut corners and are barely scraping by, saving any money at all can seem impossible.

After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator.

Could your local comic shop which is barely scraping by as is survive if it lost 15 - 20 % of its business.

He or she may be barely scraping by.

Publishing, whether traditional or not, has always been a business of a few big successes and many, many, many more barely scraping by stories — and yet people continue to write.

But with more than twenty books on the market Internationally, I'm barely scraping by.

She's barely scraping by, and no matter how hard she works, her sexist bosses refuse to give her money - making clients.

Thirteen - year - old Celeste is sent to live with her aunt Valentina, a singer and dancer in Harlem, only to discover that Valentina isn't a famous performer after all — she's barely scraping by.

And Elvin, new to New York City, finds himself barely scraping by on the streets, utterly alone and locked out of his apartment after his grandfather is mysteriously attacked.

If one stops to think about it for a moment, there's something depressing about these characters, who have little for which to live and are barely scraping by in their lives.

She's barely scraping by financially, relying on the fact that she has a roommate, her best friend Sophie (Mickey Sumner), to be able to even afford the monthly rent.

The son of an immigrant couple barely scraping by in Los Angeles» Koreatown struggles — ever so subtly — with his cultural and sexual identity in Spa Night, rookie writer - director Andrew Ahn's gossamer debut feature.

That may not sound like much, says Karp, but «in farming, every little bit helps, especially because often you're barely scraping by».

The data show «why you can have people at universities where the university ranks 30th or 40th in total NIH funding coming in, and they feel like they're barely scraping by,» Pickett says.

Even with tips, most of these workers are barely scraping by.

If you're barely scraping by each month with one child, weigh the pros and cons carefully before you conceive.

The Others are barely scraping by and forgot that their kid has 25 kids in their class to prepare Valentines for.

But I believe dropping down to League 1 saved this club in ways that a few more years of barely scraping by in the Championship would not.

when 25 % of the work in the lab is done by undergrads who's main priority is partying / getting laid on the weekends, 25 % of it done by graduate students who hate their life, and 50 % done by postdocs who are barely scraping by, we can't really expect much: -LRB-.

So if your business is tiny (less than $ 1 million in revenue), unprofitable, or just barely scraping by, it is not (yet) a candidate for sale to an ESOP.

There are months where sales are high and months where you'll barely scrape by.

Throughout high school I had barely scraped by to meet minimum math requirements, and it had literally never occurred to me that I could do any better.

After I got through the stupidly short main quest, which barely scraped by as 4 hours, I figured I start with some of the guilds.

Fiercely protective of Moonee, Halley barely scrapes by, selling wholesale perfume and stolen Disney World passes to unsuspecting travelers off Rte.

Cathy's husband works construction, so in the winter, they barely scrape by.

Option B: Don't care to invest or manage money until late in life, barely scrape by from paycheck to paycheck, and finds yourself miserable at work... You don't have the option of just saying, «screw it.

I have friends who make more than twice your salary with similar debt obligations, and they barely scrape by month to month.

Originally released back in 2010 Valve was force to release a censored version of Left 4 Dead 2, which barely scraped by with an M15 + rating.

Even running on PC with everything cranked up as high as it can go MXGP is far from being a technically impressive game, managing to barely scrape by as passable, as all Milestone releases have done.

The customer will want to ensure that the hardware and software being used to provide the services are refreshed every three to five years and that the service provider does not continue to operate using outdated or end - of - life systems that barely scrape by.

I began to feel like I did in my early career — the fear that I might not be hired in the jobs I wanted, that I had chosen a dead - end career that was in decline, and that I was destined to barely scrape by and to feel unsatisfied in my work.

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Benenson, who says he is a lead data engineer at Kickstarter, barely skated past his funding goal, scraping by with just $ 176 extra dollars.

Scott and I hardly ever can bring ourselves to buy something, and our home has always been half empty with juuuuust what we barely need to scrape by.

There will be injuries, and what looks like a team with too many good players to squeeze in will transform into a team like the one we've been seeing, the one scraping by with barely enough players.

Laurie Metcalf as her put - upon, barely - scraping - by mother turns in an equally fine performance, and the movie's Sacramento sense of place takes us to a setting rarely glimpsed in Hollywood.

The Jackson family may technically be able to come and go as they please, but in living on McAllen farm as sharecroppers who barely make enough money to scrape by, the prospects of freedom don't seem as potent as they could be.

All year long Sony has barely been scraping by with poor game choices for the Playstation 4 when it comes to Playstation Plus.