Sentences with phrase «first paying gig»

He told me about playing their first paying gig at a bar in Five Points.

Just a few weeks after he began to play music with friends Jeffrey booked his first paying gig.

Just like an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you'll face as a recent college grad starting out as a freelancer is landing your first paying gigs.

When I got into comics, there was no independent comics scene, and the few indies there were had no foothold until I'd already gotten my first paying gigs.

As you read these, keep this in mind: All stagers started out without experience, meaning someone had to give them their first paid gig.

Not exact matches

He says the company's first employees were two interns who started with three - month gigs but then never left, even though GiveForward couldn't pay them until the year - and - a-half mark.

In a finding that will be little surprise to high - schoolers looking for a part - time gig or college and university graduates seeking a first permanent position, StatsCan says young employees are most likely to be paid the minimum wage:

«We bootstrapped for the first two and half years, and we didn't actually pay ourselves anything,» says Austin, adding that the company's first employees were two interns who started with three - month gigs but then never left, even though GiveForward couldn't pay them until the year - and - a-half mark.

launched, Sebastian Rusk secured his first paid speaking gig, a $ 5,000 deal with a membership group called Entrepreneurs» Organization.

As any journalist will tell you, work in media doesn't always pay the bills, and Larry King's first gig in radio was no exception.

After writing about games as a pastime for years, he got his first shot at a paid gig at 1UP.

My first paid writing gig was reviewing back when I was in junior high — the Kansas City Star had a teen section and I did reviews on books, TV shows and films for several years there, as well as the occasional humor column.

After writing about games as a pastime for years, he got his first shot at a paid gig at 1UP.

As I mentioned before (briefly), my first paid writing gig was for Hardcore Gamer Magazine, a monthly publication that rose from the ashes of Diehard GameFan, an infamous gaming magazine from the 1990s.

Too many times recent graduates whether from a college, university or trades school will take the first offer, since it's a lot more than your part - time gig pays.

It's usually a complete surprise, (long story short, bands don't get paid for these kinds of things until their record label is paid back first, so we never know when these «gigs» are going to pop up) and I'll never forget the time we were sitting in a movie theater here in Prattville, and one of his songs started playing in one of the previews.