Sentences with phrase «corporate job a year»

We quit our corporate jobs years ago and started traveling the world as traders.

She is a mother of two who left her corporate job a year ago to fulfill her dream of creating stylish, functional and affordable accessories for smart and savvy women.

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Host Amanda Boleyn went through a similar journey when she quit a corporate job five years ago, and now, she's devoted much of her time to telling stories that will inspire others to stop thinking about their dreams and start chasing them.

Each year, countless professionals leave their corporate jobs to become consultants.

Each year, thousands of professionals walk away from — or are pushed out of — comfortable corporate jobs to become consultants.

Have you seen a change over the last 10 - 15 years, where corporate identity is closely aligned with employees being able to contribute «beyond» their job descriptions?

Having accomplished all that — by climbing the corporate ladder and working my tail off for many years in «a job,» mind you — I have the means to own a lot of things people covet.

Things like, «I would like a connection to the HR Director at xyz company» or «Do you know a health - conscious mom who has a baby under one year of age and has left her corporate job to be at home with her family?»

FORTUNE — Talk about a tough gig: The average tenure of a chief marketing officer — the corporate executive charged with branding, communications, and other activities — is less than four years, in large part because of the increasing complexity of the job, says executive search firm Spencer Stuart.

They are people like Spencer X. Smith, a 39 - year - old father of two in Madison who left a corporate sales job a year ago to start his own agency, where he's already earning 60 % of his former six - figure salary.

Second, a rethinking of corporate models since the Great Recession has led to a more agile lean way of doing business that abandons the «corporate monolith» model once again makes small - time entrepreneurship a realistic career alternative to the nearly - obsolete ideal of getting a job at a big company, staying for 30 years to retire with a pension and gold watch.

In fact, many will use the New Year as a transitioning point in their professional lives, whether kicking the corporate world to the curb, seeking more stability in life, finding a new job, or pursuing retirement.

Emilie and Rory Golden were your average corporate employees until five years ago when they recognized a business opportunity, took a leap of faith, quit their jobs, and founded EF5 Tornado Shelters.

«On its own, the final cut to corporate income tax rates, from 16.5 % to 15 %, would result in $ 30 - billion in additional business investment and 102,500 new jobs over a seven - year period, the paper estimates.»

I was a victim of corporate layoffs a few years ago and although I loved my job I can now work when I want and do so in the confines of my own home, setting my own hours and wearing what I want:)

Contributing to the employees» disenchantment were Ms. Mayer's protracted deliberations over a corporate reorganization last year that led to the departure of several key lieutenants and broke up the much - ballyhooed mobile team, prompting many mobile engineers to seek other jobs.

I absolutely loved teaching and after spending two years in the corporate world, I left my job to pursue my passion for Pure Barre and open my own studio.

Looking forward, as payrolls tend to track corporate profits by about six months, I expect to see a continued weakening in jobs numbers as the year progresses.

If the whole thing — the rises in stock prices, in corporate earnings, in the housing market, even in job growth — is driven solely by the flood of money, or whether five years of zero - interest rates and trillions of dollars in bond purchases have succeeded at getting a more resilient economic engine for the United States up and running.

And at the present rate of job growth, it could take more than five years for unemployment to decline to a level at which gains for the overall economy will boost wages for the typical American worker rather than flow largely to corporate profits.

Kraft Heinz, which now owns the Oscar Mayer brand, announced Wednesday it will close the plant by early 2017, putting about 1,000 workers out of jobs and ending a nearly 100 - year local corporate presence.

For the past few years, I've been working a corporate desk job.

In a previous life (many years ago), I held a high paying, corporate job in sales.

Her job is to get Cornell in the media and her former job (for the 8 years prior to her post at Cornell) was as «Corporate Communications Specialist» for the American Dairy Association & Council.

Monica spent 11 years in corporate America before quitting her job and working full time for herself.

Hawkins has consistently opposed the type of trickle - down, corporate welfare approaches to job creation that Astorino articulated today and which Cuomo has pushed over the last four years.

«After 34 years of Albany incumbent Hugh Farley's runaway spending, job - killing taxes, and irresponsible corporate giveaways for his Wall Street banker buddies, it's not surprising that fewer than half the voters want him to remain as their senator.

In return for those jobs, businesses avoid paying all state corporate, income and sales taxes for 10 years.

In July, MTA head Jay Walder, another of the otherwise hapless governor Paterson's surprisingly well - regarded appointments, announced that he was leaving his $ 350,000 - a year job as head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for a corporate gig overseeing Hong Kong's well - financed transit system.

Over the past 30 years, Mr. Lane has maintained leadership roles in union and corporate jobs, while also volunteering in his free time as an activist to help promote social justice issues.

In the years to come, «sustainability will increasingly become part of the corporate fabric,» predicts Joel Makower, executive editor of Greenbiz.com, one of the leading advertising Web sites for jobs related to environmental sustainability in business.

«I feel like Ive only ever had two looks: work and workout,» says Mathieson, who left her job in corporate real estate this year to become a part - time yoga teacher and have more time with her two sons.

I left my corporate job several years ago to follow my heart and become a travel writer.

I read this book a year after I left my corporate job to become an author.

The 25 - year - old had spent too many months working a corporate job in a field she wasn't passionate about, and the 9 - to - 5 grind was wearing her down.

It started after being completely burned out at my corporate marketing job of 15 years.

I only started creating a morning routine for myself when I left my corporate job and started nutrition school a few years ago.

We both had very demanding corporate careers for many years, so I know how hard it can be to combine a healthy fitness lifestyle with a full - time job and family life.

I became passionate about work wear while working at my first corporate job the summer after second year university.

I stayed at JH corporate for a little over a year, and then accepted a job in the merchandising sector of the Dallas Cowboys.

The first one was not a good fit and the second one was a contract job with a corporate policy of A. not hiring people with «only» Bachelor's degrees and B. not keeping contractors for more than a year.

«My improv years did as much to help me with my corporate job as my college training,» Shapiro says.

:: Insert long story here about how I left my job in corporate retail buying two years ago to move across the country to Charlotte and be a stay at home mommy to our sweet girl::

I recently quit my job after many years of feeling under - appreciated and was even told I was too good at what I did by some friends in corporate to be moved up despite being more than...

The Outdoorsman World Premiere Writer: Ryan Gilmour Director: David Haskell Starring: Brent Morin, Sasheer Zamata, Spencer Grammer Logline: As he prepares to cut ties with society and spend a year in the mountains, an aspiring wilderness writer meets a goal oriented, corporate woman who has quit her job to «find herself.»

Adam Cassidy (Hemsworth) is a bright, hard - working 27 - year old fighting in the corporate world to get ahead and earn a job that will finally pay him his dues.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: More Chemistry than Coherency in Confusing Cat - and - Mouse Caper Ray Koval (Clive Owen) enjoyed a 12 - year tenure with MI6 as a spy for the British government before taking a job in the private sector to help protect the trade secrets of a corporate giant called Equikrom.

(PG - 13 for profanity and sexuality) Three - time Academy Award - winner James L. Brooks directs this romantic comedy in which a free - spirited 27 year - old (Reese Witherspoon) lands in a love triangle where she has troubled deciding between a major league baseball player (Owen Wilson) and a corporate executive (Paul Rudd) who's just lost his job.

Years after his departure, after becoming over-stressed with your current corporate job, you opened the letter to discover that you inherited your grandpa's farm.

(12/17) Three - time Academy Award - winner James L. Brooks directs this romantic comedy in which a free - spirited 27 year - old (Reese Witherspoon) lands in a love triangle where she has troubled deciding between a major league baseball player (Owen Wilson) and a corporate executive (Paul Rudd) who's just lost his job.