Sentences with phrase «hold down jobs»

It wouldn't be all that impossible, really, if we didn't have to hold down jobs to pay for this event in the meantime.

There is an implicit expectation that students can simultaneously take on massive debts, hold down jobs, learn, advance their practices, and reemerge intact.

Because Odysseyware is a flexible online solution, it allows the Academy to help struggling students make up lost credits at their own pace while continuing to hold down jobs and attend to other personal responsibilities.

Unfolding in three eerie, more or less self - contained episodes, Journey To The Shore posits a world where ghosts eat, sleep, and hold down jobs, distinguished from the living only by the knowledge that they are dead.

What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs.

What it gets instead is John (Rob Mayes) and David (Chase Williamson), a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs.

Instead of devoting time to charities and other extracurricular activities to shore up their college applications, many lower - income students hold down jobs to help their families.

Although mild symptoms such as social withdrawal or confused thinking may persist, these individuals can hold down jobs and function independently without being institutionalized.

In other words, even though they might have occasional symptoms, they could hold down jobs and look after themselves.

Hrab: And [yet] of that 24 percent how many of them hold down jobs and raise families and don't drive their cars off of cliffs?

My daughter is not sleeping through the night yet, but the chunks she sleeps in are big enough now that this could continue indefinitely and we'd both still be able to hold down jobs and not go insane.

While they can often hold down jobs, adults with developmental disabilities often can't handle all the ins and outs of fully living alone.

Female veterans are more likely to have children to take care of than male veterans, says James Schmeling, co-founder of Syracuse University's Institute for Veterans and Military Families, making it harder for them to find and hold down a job.

If John Grisham could write the novel that started his writing career while holding down a job as a lawyer, you can start selling to customers and clients while holding down your job.

These folks aren't at the stage of petty thievery and broken homes, and many of them are holding down jobs, even high - pressure, high - profile ones.

Additionally, a whole host of conditions of supervised release, such as drug testing, checking in with probation or parole officers, and required classes often hinder formerly incarcerated individuals from holding down jobs.

As a military spouse, moving can make holding down a job difficult.

If your intern has never held down a job before, she might be shocked that she can't just not show up because something better came along.

They simply can not give trading enough time while also holding down a job and spending time with their friends and family.

Which makes it tough to hold down a job.

Instead, I've got my home together again and I'm holding down a job and enjoying life — without booze.

And we wonder why she has a hard time holding down a job!

Many children born into unstable families will never encounter role models who have prospered by obtaining an education, holding down a job, and delaying childbirth until marriage.

From being a helpless baby he progressed to adulthood, where he was capable of holding down a job, getting married and having children (should he so choose), making and keeping friends, earning and spending and saving money, respecting confidences, theorizing about the origins of things, separating fancy from fact, getting angry without having to hurt others, caring for others without needing to possess them.

It must be immensely stressful, trying to hold down a job that a voice - to - text application could manage with twice the accuracy and 100 percent less random malice, and when one couples that stress with looming layoffs - a threat that their own inherent worthlessness has precipitated - the rank and file of the media must be under some serious strain.

One an addict who hid his addictions from me until after the wedding — and the second was a narcissist who couldn't hold down a job.

Her GoFundMe page, originally titled the «Stop Bailey From Breeding Fund,» informs visitors that «Bailey is currently unemployed, completely broke, in debt, and in no position to hold down a job due to severe symptoms of a rough, unplanned and unexpected pregnancy.»

Homeschooling also requires one parent to be at home during the day, which makes it difficult to hold down a job.

Is any human capable of all of the aforementioned stuff while also holding down a job?

I guess it's only natural to assume the grass is greener on the other side of motherhood: that working moms get to «have a break» from parenting unlike SAHMs, who have to deal with their kids all the day, or that SAHMs get to, well, stay at home, and don't have to deal with the rigors of holding down a job and being a parent.

«I couldn't hold down a job.

This enables the Home Office to criminalise homeless EEA nationals — detaining and forcing them to leave the UK, regardless of whether they are holding down a job or have permanent residency.

The restrictions were put in place so students could demonstrate a commitment to completing a degree, but Gonzalez - Rivera says people holding down a job and raising children often can't afford to do that.

I can only marvel at parents who hold down a job such as mine while also keeping a child safe, well nourished and happy through the vulnerable early years.

University of Arizona scientists recently fed psilocybin to nine volunteers whose obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD) was so disabling that many could not hold down a job or leave the house; they would observe elaborate cleaning rituals or shower for hours until they felt comfortable.

The disease destroys relationships and renders many of its sufferers unable to hold down a job.

«It is possible for people to have ongoing symptoms and yet hold down a job,» says Birchwood.

She held down a job as a special - education teacher and helped care for her family in the northeastern U.S..

Many can, for example, live relatively normal lives outside a hospital, holding down a job and socializing periodically with family and friends.

As anyone who still manages to hold down a job in biological research will know, projects in molecular biology dominate grant applications and also grant awards.

These symptoms have proved hard to treat, making it difficult for people with the condition to hold down a job...

It could be that we don't feel we are good enough to be a wife, to hold down the job we have, strong enough to face trials and list goes on.

Zombies are now holding down jobs in old prisons during Halloween, and the Black Zombie «Deaths Matter» movement is also gaining momentum.

«Ask her to think about it: Does she really want to be with a guy who can't hold down a job?

I do hold down a job, i do have goals and dreams.

Ted also manages to hold down a job and a wife, three hours each per day, whether they need it or not.

The son of a barber, Richard Conte held down jobs ranging from truck driver, to Wall Street clerk before finding his place as an actor.

A product of the Indiana orphanage system, the part - Cherokee - Indian Monte Blue held down jobs ranging from stevedore to reporter before offering his services as a movie - studio handyman in the early 1910s.

His irresponsible mother unable to hold down a job, Mister's situation goes from bad to worse when she is taken into custody, and child protective services attempts to track him down.

Since World War II, he's had difficulty holding down a job due to his hot temper and affinity for paint thinner - spiked potions, but the charismatic Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman in a more subtle, but equally skillful turn) finds him irresistible as a project, a surrogate son — maybe even the shadow self that he normally keeps hidden (Dodd shares Quell's propensity for the occasional splenetic outburst).