Sentences with phrase «decades of work life»

What do baseball players do when they retire with decades of work life ahead of them?

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After decades engaged in fulfilling, challenging work, a life of leisure isn't necessarily appealing.

Jennifer and Devereaux Jennings, married professors with the University of Alberta School of Business, have been studying work - life balance among entrepreneurs for more than a decade.

Piles of research over the last two decades has shown that emotional intelligence is likely the single most powerful success factor yet discovered, affecting everything from your performance at work, to your mood and the quality of your personal life.

«This is key, because if you're young it means you have 30 - 35 years left of working life, so you are going to be working for a few decades, and that means paying taxes for a few decades,» Vargas - Silva said.

«I spent over a decade of my life working at the issue [of prison reform], including half a decade at the NAACP, and yet here you have a former inmate turned entrepreneur who's been able to bring relief to almost a quarter of federal inmates in just a couple of years,» Jealous says.

Decades ago he decided to try and capture life on the Australian continent in a day — so he sent dozens of photographers into the field for 24 hours, collecting their work into a single book and spawning the Day in the Life serlife on the Australian continent in a day — so he sent dozens of photographers into the field for 24 hours, collecting their work into a single book and spawning the Day in the Life serLife series.

Nobody thought of office work as a life - threatening activity three decades ago.

Some say this generation of working men could help solve the work - life problems that have plagued women for decades.

Mariano notes that roughly 75 percent of sellers within the industry are women, down from about 90 percent a few decades ago, but more men and married couples are joining the ranks and finding a better work / life balance than the corporate world provided.

«Hindsight is always 20/20, of course, but I also have to tell you honestly that, after a decade living and working outside the U.S., my only real regret is that we didn't do it sooner.»

In the last decade, our team members have gone through life - changing events, all of which demand work flexibility.

Our experience as one of the fastest growing companies in the country over the past decade gives us a unique perspective, and the TiLT training program is grounded in real - life, practical examples of what works and doesn't work in today's incredibly tough sales environment,» said Henry Schuck, CEO of DiscoverOrg.

Today, Hughes and Young work side by side here at the last U.S. smelter that makes the high - purity aluminum used in armored vehicles, sons of a region where jobs in the metal industry, ubiquitous for decades, have become a rapidly disappearing way of life.

Though lacking the grave specter that shadowed much of the work from the last decade of his life, these songs carry a gravitas that proves that this period was far from creatively fallow for the Man In Black.

And over the past couple decades, I think we are finding out the real story... have faith in yourself and live a life of simple Karma... it works...

I was a minister for most of my life and spent decades researching various topics in the bible that I was working on with teams of ministers or smaller groups.

As it enters its third decade of life, COCU is working consciously to foster such togetherness, in theological agreement, in ministry and mission and in congregational life.

Most of the people I've encountered over the last decade who work for relief and development organizations tell me of a watershed transformation that happened in their lives.

He spoke from just a few notes, and sometimes none at all, pulling together effortlessly all the threads he had so carefully spun out in his decades of work on religion and public life.

Although I had been teaching Kierkegaard seminars for many years and had lived in constant companionship with his authorship, the perennial Kierkegaardian side of my work did not bear visible fruit until I completed a work on Kierkegaard's parables, which was fully two decades in the making.8 No twentieth century psychologist has influenced my psychology as deeply as Kierkegaard, and I still doubt that the analytical powers and psychological insights of Freud and the post-Freudians have equaled those of Kierkegaard.

After a decade - plus of working, worshiping, and growing families in the States, TPS recipients now have until next September to leave or obtain green card status; if they stay past the deadline, they will face the risks of living in the US illegally.

Westin Hotels & Resorts, a leader in wellness and hospitality for more than a decade, lives its philosophy «For a Better You ™» through the brand's Six Pillars of Well - Being: Feel Well, Work Well, Move Well, Eat Well, Sleep Well and Play Well.

For more than a decade, our investigators have worked to bring to light the systemic abuse of animals exported live overseas.

Men's reported level of work - life conflict has risen significantly over the past three decades, (from 34 % in 1977 to 45 % in 2008) while the level of conflict reported by women has not changed significantly (Galinsky et al, 2009)

One of the best resources for how to parent for a secure attachment in the first few years of life is the new book Raising A Secure Child by Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper, and Bert Powell, all therapists who have worked with many different kinds of families for decades.

Having worked with thousands of women over the past two decades, best - selling author Samantha Ettus shares the secrets for how you can sustain a thriving personal and professional life at the same time.

After decades of failed efforts to improve the lives of poor students, Mr Tough has written a fine and provocative book about the kind of work that seems to be making a difference.

American families have undergone dramatic changes in the past five decades, as the share of adults who are married has declined from 72 % in 1960 to about 50 % today.18 Compared with single fathers and fathers who live with a partner, married fathers work longer hours in their job and have the least amount of leisure time.

* «Historic low» for households with married parents and children * More Americans now living alone, data show * Nearly 800,000 more households include out - of - work parent By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters)- The iconic picture of the traditional American household has faded over the last four decades as the number of married couples with children has seen a steep decline and more people are living alone, according to U.S. Census...

After decades of rhetoric validating women's choices to «opt in» or «opt out,» women often resolve work - life conflict by pulling back from work.

Obviously this is a pretty broad question, and I don't care if these are primary sources, to collaborative works by modern historians, to historical fictions (as I'm sure much of this detail will be left to the imagination as not much evidence will remain), but I'm looking for how humans ran societies, and the issue they dealt with, on a day to day basis, because people live on a day to day basis, and don't, like historians, summarize a decade in a couple of pages of writing.

Report author Stewart Lansley said: «Up to a third of those of working age are facing a deepening livelihood crisis, one which has brought weakening job opportunities, low living standards and a range of new economic uncertainties compared with the immediate post-war decades.

«For decades, New Yorkers» lives have been improved by the hard work and progressive leadership of Eric Schneiderman,» said the Manhattan Democrat's campaign spokesman James Freedland.

«I have lived and actively volunteered and worked in virtually every part of this district for well over two decades,» Iannece said.

The Windrush scandal has seen people of Caribbean descent facing deportation and the loss of access to public services despite living and working in the UK for decades.

Wiseman said the work will give some parts of the museum a much needed facelift and pump new life into the campus, which remained unchanged for decades.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Giuliani's comments about Black Lives Matter and black - on - black violence are hurting the city and denigrating people of color, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said, adding: «I don't know why he has chosen for decades to divide people, but sadly, that's what his body of work increasingly is.»

In addition to her teaching and research, Conway - turner has traveled to Haiti regularly over the past decade, performing humanitarian work as a member of H.O.P.E., a not - for - profit, volunteer organization based in Rochester, N.Y., assisting the people of Borgne, Haiti, in achieving equitable, just, and sustainable living conditions.

Mr Shapps said: «One of the cruelest things about this welfare system, which had developed over decades... is that it traps people who want to work hard and get on in life with no other option but to be trapped into a life on welfare.

Mr. Espada, a native of Puerto Rico who was once the highest ranking Hispanic lawmaker in New York, relied on the same defense in his trial that he so often turned to during his three decades in public life — maintaining that the allegations were the work of political enemies.

Joyce Midley is a communication expert and a broadcast journalist with over a decade experience in television presention; having worked with Ghana Television (GTV) and TV3 Network Limited much of her professional life.

In the past decade, a growing body of work has suggested that rodents and other animals have complex mental lives and can experience a range of emotions once only attributed to people.

Currently an assistant professor at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, he has dedicated the last decade of his professional life to helping people with autism in their families.

«We could be just a few decades from proving if there is life elsewhere,» says Heller, a post-doctoral fellow at McMaster's Origins Institute who worked with Pudritz, a professor of physics and astronomy and director of the Origins Institute.

But after that, you'll have decades of professional life left in which you'll be able to go to work every day believing in what you're doing, knowing that your research is impervious to the criticism of your backwards uncle.

In the last decades of his life, Einstein chose to work far from the madding crowd of quantum enthusiasts.

A decade later, as a postdoctoral researcher, he was working on a multi-university collaboration called the Tree of Life, to piece together the phylogeny — that branching tree of evolutionary history — for all flowering plants.

Although the term genetic engineering has been in use for at least three decades, and recombinant DNA methods are now mainstays of modern research, most biotechnologists» work with living things has little in common with engineering.