Sentences with phrase «for menial jobs»

Before computers were available in Meghpar Titodi, a dusty, impoverished village in Gujarat, India, students such as eleventh grader Hemant were destined for menial jobs as street sweepers, domestic workers, and field laborers.

At that time Verwoerd was minister of education in the Nationalist government and his view was that as blacks were never going to be allowed to compete economically with whites, their education need fit them only for menial jobs.

He's constantly late for his menial job at a local grocery store, and even when he does arrive on time, he can't seem to lock the doors on the delivery truck, causing hundreds of dollars of fish to fall out the back.

She has curiously left the university where she was studying literature for this menial job with unreliable pay that finds her living modestly in a dumpy room at the bus depot and washing her underwear in an outdoor sink.

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How can we complain that we do not have people with the skills to help our economy, while bringing in educated and qualified immigrants who are screened for their potential, who bring their innovative and entrepreneurial ideas, and yet have to do menial jobs because businesses won't hire them?

These new developments compel the attention of the American religious community, for they are now affecting millions of workers, their families and their communities in the form of massive plant closures, huge movements of industrial capital overseas and a downshifting of the work force into lower - paying and more menial jobs — when such jobs can be found.

There is also substantial need for low - skilled labor as migrants frequently fill the most menial «3D» — dirty, dangerous and difficult — jobs which European labor is often no longer prepared to accept.

While these arrangements may sound sleazy to some, for many students, these unconventional relationships are preferable to working menial jobs that still leave them without enough cash to make ends meet.

With little by way of academic credentials, she struggles with menial jobs to be able to provide food for her daughter and pay rent to her motel's manager Bobby (Willem Dafoe).

Barred from Earth and relegated to performing dangerous or menial jobs on off - world colonies, those replicants that defy the ban are hunted down and killed by «Blade Runners,» such as Ford's Deckard, who's drawn out of retirement for one last job.

Nikkei reported that Konami was assigning game developers to menial jobs if the company no longer saw those people as useful; that cameras had been installed to monitor employee movements; and that supervisors were closely tracking lunch breaks and publicly shaming employees who were out of the office for too long.

We have seen all too clearly the devastating cost of letting children enter adulthood unprepared, whether measured by the number of people in prison, on drugs, unemployed, under - employed, or working multiple menial jobs in the hopes of providing a better future for their own kids.

While some college kids held menial summer jobs, Tyler worked as a financial representative for Northwestern Mutual.

Pagani worked at Lamborghini for a while, in menial jobs.

They're ostracized, forced to work menial jobs because they won't pass the criminal background check required for most office job and are therefore in some cases, forced to resort back to the crimes they committed.

Leaving his studies, he takes on a variety of menial jobs while Pingping works for a wealthy widow as a cook and housekeeper.

Even kids that initially choose not to go to school of some kind my change their mind after holding a number of menial jobs for a while.

In their elder forms, both ruminated over formative periods spent exploring the collections and libraries the institution had to offer, emphasizing the importance of finding a job — no matter how menial — that can allow for immersion in an environment that nurtures brimming interests.

Wojciech Gilewicz's video piece, Residency Unlimited, looks at jobs that may be considered menial, such as cleaning or construction, and are sometimes the only positions available for immigrants.

, looks at jobs that may be considered menial, such as cleaning or construction, and are sometimes the only positions available for immigrants.

The Balinese themselves see little financial gain from the millions of dollars that pass through this place except for very low pay for mostly menial jobs.

I once worked a menial job where I had to dress up in a suit, and my good buddy liked to embarrass me, when we bopped into a shop for donuts and a coffee, by asking me, «What sort of donut would you like, Doctor Caleb?»

With this realization, they may have volunteered for the menial, tough jobs when they were starting out.

For your first job out of college, you will find yourself doing things that may seem menial or beneath you.

For those just setting off on their career journey, you can usually expect to be given the most menial of tasks at a new job.

The job of an apprentice carpenter is to help lead carpenters in performing menial tasks such as handing tools and cleaning spaces for work.

In his chapter on Cohesion and Development, Don Forsyth reprints Donald F. Roy's description of «Banana Time», social rituals that a turned a menial and repetitive job into cohesive group experience for fabrication workers.