Sentences with phrase «decade career for»

This methodology contributed to a highly successful four - decade career for me.

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Four decades and 88 children's novels into his career, author Gordon Korman has learned how to keep his work fresh, exciting and fun — both for his young readers and for himself.

While the ideas of a free - agent nation and personal brand building have been with us for a couple of decades, DIY - career building has gotten a big push from the digital (and old - fashioned sharing) infrastructure that fosters this independence.

Lewis managed to meet his goal of «one dollar more» than the previous year for all but six of his 45 years on air to date, earning around $ 60 million annually over the past decade, for a career total of nearly $ 2.5 billion.

He later pursued a career in politics, serving for almost two decades in the California Assembly and Senate as a progressive force on issues such as the environment and education.

Working at the same job for decades or staying in the same line of work for your entire career can get you stuck in a rut.

In his blog post, Sacca said he and his wife Crystal found a note he wrote at 20 that laid out his career goals for the next two decades.

The percentage of Cooley partners who were female was in the low 20s, and the figures for this critical career milestone hadn't grown significantly for about a decade.

Instead of sticking with one company for a decades - long, full - time career, we continue to see people across the workforce turn to online freelance platforms to find contract - based «gigs.»

His career spanned for more than six decades, preaching to more than 200 million people worldwide and ministering to several U.S. presidents including Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, and Bill Clinton.

For fellow early retiree Jeremy Jacobson, who blogs at www.gocurrycracker.com, a vacation prompted him to rethink his priorities and decide he wanted to ditch his career as an electrical engineer decades early.

Consider how high school students have been told for decades that they can't expect simply one lifetime career.

But now, for those blessed to be free of family constraints or serious debts, a rising marriage age and longer career onramps can make the third decade of life seem — from the outside at least — like one big party.

While a superstar like LeBron James will play in the league for over a decade and earn a great deal of money from personal appearances and endorsement deals, the median NBA player has a career of only three to four years, and generates a relatively modest amount of outside income.

More than a decade after leaving baseball, Cal Ripken serves as one of the best models for how to build a career after professional sports.

Scorsese has built his career on iconic gangster movies, from «Goodfellas» to «Casino,» «Mean Streets» and «The Departed,» so his return to the genre after more than a decade is cause for celebration.

The topics were thrust onto the national stage in October when news broke that Hollywood boss Harvey Weinstein had allegedly sexually harassed and abused dozens of women for decades, using his power in the industry to threaten their careers...

When George, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, was looking for his first civilian job after decades in the military, he struggled to find a new career.

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Over the past two decades, the DC system has evolved to manage one aspect of retirement risk, namely the problem of managing asset allocation for individuals as they move throughout their career.

But now, in the aftermath of the FBI raid on the offices and residences of his most prominent personal attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen — he of the $ 130,000 pre-election payment to the porn star — the same techniques that Trump's lawyers have employed for decades to smooth his business path are the very things that threaten to blow holes in his still - young political career.

During his career he spent over two decades working for the Anglo American group, including Managing Director of Bindura Nickel and Zimbabwe Alloys, and as well as CEO and Chairman of Zimasco, one of Africa's largest integrated ferrochrome mining and smelting businesses before its sale to SinoSteel Corporation.

For two decades, at almost every step of his career, he figured out a way to make more money.

Today in Japan, according to the Japan Productivity Center for Socio - Economic Development, workers who began their careers during the «lost decade» of the 1990s and are now in their 30s make up six out of every 10 cases of depression, stress, and work - related mental disabilities reported by employers.

It is a reality, and it is not fair: if you leave the workforce for a period of time, even for a good reason, your career can suffer for decades to come.

The Equity and Income Fund's managers have both worked in the investment industry for many decades, so we both should be at the point in our careers where dubious financial - industry innovations no longer surprise us.

I am happily married, have worked for over 3 decades in a successful career, have a wide circle of friends and colleagues that includes many who believe.

One evangelical philosopher left out of her account who does not fit neatly in either of those camps is Ronald Nash, a Reformed Baptist who ran a program at Western Kentucky University for over two decades before retiring in 1991 to take another post at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando and then finishing out his career at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

For decades professors have laid their careers, and Israel its legislation, on the line in witness to the truth that there is no statute of limitation for the Holocaust crime, that if Adolf Eichmann were in hiding still, and lived for the thousand years that the Third Reich was supposed to continue, a future court would still have to hunt him down and bring him to justiFor decades professors have laid their careers, and Israel its legislation, on the line in witness to the truth that there is no statute of limitation for the Holocaust crime, that if Adolf Eichmann were in hiding still, and lived for the thousand years that the Third Reich was supposed to continue, a future court would still have to hunt him down and bring him to justifor the Holocaust crime, that if Adolf Eichmann were in hiding still, and lived for the thousand years that the Third Reich was supposed to continue, a future court would still have to hunt him down and bring him to justifor the thousand years that the Third Reich was supposed to continue, a future court would still have to hunt him down and bring him to justice.

For more than two decades — the years when he was establishing his career — he resided in the Boston suburb of Ipswich.

Moreover, Hartshorne himself in the last decade of his career, put much more emphasis on a particular table of options for thinking about God and the world as a way of displaying the advantages of his own metaphysics («The Aesthetic Dimensions» 17; «God, Necessary and Contingent» 296; «Can Philosophers» 17).

Together the collection spans more than four decades of Novak's career, from his affiliation with the now - defunct Coalition for a Democratic Majority to his long tenure at the American Enterprise Institute.

Donald T. Critchlow's impressively researched Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism, a narrative of Schlafly's political career, explains that it was this unyielding quality of hers — her resolute refusal to cultivate the intellectual and cultural elites of either coast, even the conservative intellectual and cultural elites who were her natural ideological allies — that provided the astonishing power that she managed to wield in American politics for more than three decades.

President Barack Obama congratulated Archbishop Desmond Tutu on his official retirement, praising him for the extensive list of accomplishments in his decades - long career.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Capretta served for a decade in Congress as a senior analyst for health care issues and for three years as a budget examiner at OMB.

Stephan's pursuit of justice led him to transition from a successful career in the Fortune 100 sector to Africa, where he directed relief and development programs for nearly a decade before returning to the United States to lead World Relief's global operations.

We somehow got on the topic of dream jobs now that we've all been working in the real world for about a decade, and I wasn't surprised to hear that we all had visions of creative and passionate careers that gave us the freedom to travel and explore regularly.

We are looking to develop and create educational protocols for an industry that has turned from a minor restaurant career a decade ago to a billion dollar education industry today.

For over a decade, Brooks Ellis has not only helped build and solidify our hospitality portfolio in the Southeast Districts, he has also furthered his own Towne Park career that began as a valet and led to his current role as Orlando's Senior District Manager.

Thomas started his career as a freelance journalist for German newspapers and as an editor at N - tv news television, Thomas moved into the car and transportation industry more than a decade ago.

«The partnership between Enlightened Hospitality Group and Hakkasan Ltd. is the ideal culmination of more than a decade long career in the hospitality industry for me, and most certainly marks a personal high.

The Sausalito native had bounced from career to career for the first four decades of his life, and had settled on distinctly modest goals for the rest of his life.

In five decades, when we all have a government - mandated Siri module implanted where the spine meets the brain, someone will ask Siri who holds the Major League Baseball record for career hits.

It's hard to imagine Coach O would've been a serious candidate for LSU if his career record as a head coach was still basically just the 10 - 25 he'd rang up at Ole Miss a decade earlier.

They followed the careers of countrymen such as 5» 9» guard Pablo Alicea, a Puerto Rican pro-league player for the last decade, yet despaired of Latin players» ever faring well in the NBA.

Gold dust is a career killer but he's made it work for decades.

Imagine how many goals Ovi would have if he got to shoot towards the stick figure goalies Gretzky did, or even better the maskless goalies Gordie faced for the first decade of his career.

And when you look back at the last decade, none of those youngsters have progressed in the way that they were hyped up to and yes I'm talking about the likes of Ramsey, Walcott, Jack Wheelchair and the Ox who all had a one season wonder of some sort, during one point in their Arsenal careers, thus far and We can't keep using this excuse for not buying ready made quality, which would instantly improve our chances of winning a major trophy or two, but No, Wenger wants to stick with a theory which clearly isn't working for us on the pitch, but he doesn't really care, as long as it works out well for saving the penny's and the pounds, in the place where it matters most for Arsenal fc, in the bank.

I'm not saying that he will be trash the rest of his career but people are making it seem like he is garunteed to be the next greatest striker for the coming decade.

Owens» on - field contributions are indisputable — second all - time in career receiving yards, and a dominant force at receiver for a full decade and a half — but those Hall of Fame credentials have been offset by the perception that followed him for most of his career as a problematic teammate.