Sentences with phrase «called a day job»

So I called my day job and told them I had the flu, and I told the night job the same thing.»

In fact, most of us have an extremely «active» wealth accumulation strategy called a day job that takes up a lot of time and is our most valuable asset.

There's so much to worry about — family obligations, finding time to write, researching and organizing your submissions to literary agents and literary magazine editors, cooking, mowing the lawn, maintaining a home — oh, and that pesky little thing called your day job.

Hugh McLeod has begun an interesting conversation on what he calls «blogvertising,» which is what he calls his day job.

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He got up at 6:00 a.m., worked his day - job as a janitor and, in that pre-internet age, made cold calls in the real estate office until the wee hours.

Non-productive meetings interrupt the flow of the day and we should all challenge the temptation to call a meeting rather than get on with the job in hand.

These so - called «hybrid» entrepreneurs who keep their day jobs make for less thrilling copy and more complicated data analysis among researchers, so they're often undercounted, Raffiee notes, which skews the data on entrepreneurs» traits in general.

At first Guerrero came in after work and made sales calls, but he quit his day job after a few months to sell for Switch full - time.

Then Kallinis called them both the following day to say she had just quit her job.

The modern - day bible for this way of thinking is a 2014 book by Belgian organizational behaviour consultant Frederic Laloux called Reinventing Organizations, which posits that reporting structures (and, indeed, job descriptions) have no purpose in the workplace of the future.

Analysts are currently calling for 140,000 new job's in the government's report this Friday, but the sum of the data in recent days is mixed at best as both ISM reports point to weak hiring, but this morning's data points to better than expected figures.

The real clincher comes when we see a world of disgruntled people who go off to work, day in and day out, to a job they hate, never even knowing they were called to be more.

I once had a guy cold call me every day to get a job.

Back in September, two days before Barack Obama delivered his speech to Congress on jobs, he put in a call to Howard Schultz, the chairman and CEO of coffee king Starbucks.

The installer would call Albers directly — as opposed to going through his own company for the part — which would allow him to complete the job on the same day and not disappoint his customer.

Alas, conservatives have called for the end of the Swedish welfare state for a long time, and this smear job may postpone the day that Canadians start looking at Sweden as a model we may want to emulate.

When Uber's CTO Thuan Pham, then a VP at VMware, was interviewing for the job in late 2012, Kalanick called him every day for two weeks to quiz him on recruiting or how best to manage engineers.

The Stonecrest City Council voted 4 - 2 on Monday to de-annex 345 acres of land if the e-commerce giant picks the area for what the company calls HQ2, a corporate hub where Seattle - based Amazon says it will one day house 50,000 jobs.

I quit my day job with my friend Igor I started a new company called elastic.io, a solution that helps people connect cloud API's without programming.

«As much as this is a day to remember those who have lost their lives on the job, it is also a call to protect the living.

His followers are doing pretty good job of eliminating minorities by forcing them to leave their country or be converted to Islam, but you know what, those days of Koranic abuse are over, people are hitting back at s. a. v. a g e s from air, governments around the world are not hesitant to call them terrorists and killing them any place they find.

They often rationalize about why it can't be done: «After all, it's part of the job to be on call 24 hours per day.»

The Biblical mimicry is uncanny: Job 14:5, «his days are determined»; Isaiah 43:1, «I have called you»; Genesis 3:19, «you are dust, and to dust you shall return»; John 14:20, «I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.»

I just wan na say weather what proof you have or evidence every religion book, scriptures, and testamony might know how the world will end but does nt know cause if everybody knew what day it was going to happen they would do all the things that people are doing following this man like quiting jobs and all that because in the bible under «THE CALL TO READINESS «it says God or jesus does nt want you to worry about when the world will end but the do want you to keep busy and continue to work hard JUST LIKE GOD DID TO CREATE the world so i do nt think noone should buy into this and it shouldnt be advertised cause thats not what GOD or JESUS would want because when he rises unexpectedly key word unexpectedly his joy and his welcoming would be him nknowing that the creatures aka as us humans have been following his will and working hard!!!

It was quite possibly the sketchiest job I've ever had between the business never actually calling itself Cutco (it was Vector Marketing Association) and the dirty spider infested office it resided in below a day care.

We should not blame gazidiz that guy does his job, he is a deal breaker.puma?ozil?sanchez?wenger will always try to take the credit but gazidiz is positive.wenger is the one who has got himself to this mess, a guy who always has something to say even if it simple to say i was wrong.im done calling him out but i know that 4th place luck will runout one day

His job is to get us into the CL and finish top 4, if the fans cry then he will make ONE big purchase and call it a day.

But of course there is an off chance that Wenger may not want that and according to his latest comments, he seems to suggest that there may be one more managerial job in the pipeline before he calls it a day on professional football.

So I want all of our so - called stars to STFU, and go do their job... day in and day out.

Coquelin has been called «the policeman» in the past because of the job that he does, and I think that he stabilises our midfield like no other player that we have managed to find since the days of Gilberto and Vieria.

While he was getting dressed, Bobbie called from Tulsa, where she had moved a few days earlier to take a job as a junior - high physical education teacher.

6 months after we were in the relationship he got a job in a supermarket as security guard, but here in my country that does nt really makes a lot, its like almost $ 300 dollars per month, i make 600 up to 800 per month, by taking calls in a call center, he never went to college he only graduated highschool, im in law school right now... from the very beginning since i knew he did nt have a job or was making money he could spend, if i had money i would invite him out to dinner, or to the movies or whatever and it was me paying for it which i did nt mind, he is not the kind of men who buys flower, or invite u to the movies, or out, he rather visit me at home and watch a movie in netflix and thats it, we have made plans to go out, but none of them works out, something always happen, and the day it may happen, i say no, just because i think i will have to pay for the date..

When something went wrong I could not just place a call to Dell or HP and get it fixed like I did for my day job.

We are always tired from our day by this point, and we want to have our dinner and unwind, not to mention finish any necessary jobs before our own bed calls.

Before you had kids, the jobs you worked had specific start times and end times; now you're on - call throughout the day and night!

The things she does for a client are cook big meals (including some to freeze), cleaning bathrooms and kitchens and floors, doing laundry, addressing birth announcements, helping with simple breastfeeding problems (like positioning problems) and helping you decide if it's serious enough to call the lactation consultant about or if you can wait for the breastfeeding support group in a few days, holding the baby while you nap or take a shower, playing with older children, fielding phone calls from family and friends, helping look up odd things in the baby book, dialing the pediatrician, and telling you you're doing a great job.

«I get a lot of calls from other directors who know me through my state auditing job, and one of them forwarded me an email about a meeting the very next day.

Some days I love my job and am on top of the world, and some days I want to hide in bed and call in sick because I just don't feel like I can cope.

In the few days after Easter, when the story broke, my job was just about crisis management - fielding calls from the media, showing LabourList as a forum for ideas, not smears, and trying to work out both publicly and privately what had just happened.

«If you are as brilliant as her and don't want a more than full - time job inspiring and leading our amazing party then don't answer my phone calls for the next few days!»

Well, I live by the day and somehow leave my next line of action or ambition to God, I remained a very committed party man, in politics by call, I can honestly restate that I came into politics by call, I left a very lucrative job as a senior staff of NNPC and with 20 yes experience to politics that is full of uncertainty, I voluntarily retired my job and not sacked.

Also Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice called on the Federal Railroad Administration to investigate workplace safety practices at the LIRR's rail freight contractor, after allegations in a lawsuit that New York & Atlantic Railway was having untrained and uncertified day laborers perform dangerous jobs on LIRR tracks.

Singas has been receiving phone calls about the job Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is vacating at the end of the day amid allegations that he physically abused and assaulted four women.

Republican Party Chairman Rob Gleason called the one - seat loss a «sad day,» but said in a statement he remained confident that the leadership of incoming Gov. Tom Corbett and the new GOP legislative leadership «will result in more jobs and more opportunities for our Commonwealth to grow in the years ahead.»

My feelings are the same he should stick to his day job as «Defender of The Faith» and leaving he running for «Lord» of the «Former» Empire State to «Others», but if you do wish to run then I guess should now be called «Copy Cat» Cuomo since you are now copying the «Republicans».

In the phone call that day in 2016, Percoco talked about a job his wife had gotten with an energy company — a post prosecutors have called a job in return for nearly $ 300,000 in what they allege amounted to alleged bribe payments to Percoco, allegedly in return for official government favors.

Akash Paun of the Institute for Government (IfG) says government insiders have warned that the so - called «watchdog ministers» are struggling to do their day jobs while simultaneously keeping tabs on the whole department.

Jeremy Travis, the former president of John Jay College who insiders say is vying for the coveted job of CUNY chancellor, had two retired NYPD cops at his beck and call as chauffeurs, driving him to work everyday as they furnished him with his favorite Starbucks coffee and the day's newspapers for the trip, sources told The NY Post.

He just doesn't have much call for it in his current day job.

On the economy, Lancman supports creating jobs by investing in infrastructure improvements, which he called the «modern - day new deal» at a debate on June 21, and by making it easier for small businesses to get credit.