Sentences with phrase «holding down a day»

So rather than sweat the investment game, she spent years holding down a day job while bootstrapping her new company on the side.

Holding down a day job means having only so many waking hours to devote to your side venture.

Blakely famously started Spanx with $ 5,000 of her own savings in the late 1990s, while holding down a day job selling fax machines.

Getting all the coursework and projects done on his own time, in addition to holding down his day job, was «difficult and challenging but in the end very rewarding,» Meyer said.

To complicate things further, your startup is also frequently a side hustle while you hold down a day job.

While still holding down her day job as a p...

Struggling with school, overdue bills and the ability to hold down a day job, Peter's life is so consumed with saving others that there is little time for anything else.

Raised for the balance of his youth in the lap of luxury, Adonis never forgets what he endured, and is determined to become a professional boxer, training himself to the point that he defeats a flurry of opponents in Mexico while holding down a day job at a financial institution.

In addition to holding down a day job as a board game photographer, Scott is the author of several middle grade fantasy novels, a thriller, and a couple of non-fiction titles, including this newest one.

Huge numbers of authors, both self - published and traditionally - published, have to hold down a day - job, meaning they do not «make a living» from their writing.

When I graduated from Oxford I waitressed full — time while writing at night, so I know how hard it is to fulfill an artistic passion while holding down a day job.

Unfortunately, it's so easy to get bogged down in the daily grind of just working on a manuscript, holding down a day job, and still trying to be a human who eats and showers and sleeps and sometimes even socializes.

If you're a writer with a firm goal to make an income writing, who has limited time from holding down a day job, with kids, perhaps even health issues, then focusing your limited time and effort on a genre will give back more bang for the time you put in.

Next to marketing, this tends to be one of the biggest challenges for writers, especially those who are trying to break into a career as a writer while holding down a day job or raising a family.

It's no harder or more hectic I'm sure than trying to write and hold down a day job, but I do sometimes struggle with snapping myself from parenting / teaching mode into writing / creative mode and back again on a dime — or rather during the 10 - 20 minute windows I usually get to do some work.

It's no harder or more hectic I'm sure than trying to write and hold down a day job, but I do sometimes struggle with snapping myself from parenting / teaching -LSB-...]

Unlike many of the other indie developers we've talked to, it's less a story less about self - imposed crunch, racing to meet a launch date, and more about one man figuring out what his game was while holding down a day job.»

When you write about video games every week while also holding down a day job in a different area of journalism, you end up accumulating a lot of them.

Making art, holding down a day job, managing a family, and trying to sell your art takes some hard work.

Artist Matt Tackett, who holds down a day job installing artworks for an auction house, is showing a 10 - foot - tall, red - white - and - blue banner with the text, «We Finance Lottery Tickets.»

For me personally, with holding down a day job and working seven hours in the evenings, I constantly remind myself of this and that it doesn't happen overnight.

The 29 - year - old from London, Ont., holds down a day job as a criminal defence counsel in Chattanooga, Tenn..

How to get insane real estate profits even if you're holding down a day job and have no time to yourself

For now, Cymrot and Mann — who are real estate veterans, not journalists — are the only employees of NetGainRealEstate.com, running the new venture while simultaneously holding down their day jobs.

Not exact matches

If you want to slow down time, this theory holds: If you want to make the days last, do something different.

«Something as simple as writing down three things you're grateful for every day for 21 days in a row significantly increases your level of optimism, and it holds for the next six months.

Only days before his ouster, Bannon reaffirmed, in an interview with a left - leaning political journal, his long - held conviction that the U.S. is locked in an «economic war» with China, and boasted of plotting behind the scenes to take down White House rivals who lacked the courage to join his call to arms.

«This Sept. 27, 2012, is a day that will go down in the history of Austria,» he said at the press conference he held to announce his plans.

«With just a few more days left until Friday's deadline, we think enrollment is tracking towards a single - digit percent decline (if renewal rate holds consistent with prior years and year - over-year growth in new sign - ups seen to date is sustained), but it all comes down to an uncertain final surge,» Newshel wrote in a research note.

Perhaps the best - case scenario is simply for the S&P 500 to hold at convergence of its recent low and 50 - day moving average, which may actually be a tall order if the NASDAQ continues to sell off and weigh the broad market down.

So if you assume that the pattern holds, we are either in a secular bear market or we will get a large decline once we get a 2 % down day.

In fact, I would bet good money that junk bond investors will wake up one day and find that the value of their holdings will be down 40 - 50 % overnight.

Since stocks and ETFs trading at new 52 - week highs have no overhead supply and price resistance of prior highs to hold them down, our most profitable swing trades are frequently in stocks and ETFs trading at 52 - week highs (like this $ CBM trade we closed on August 15 for an 11 % gain on a 4 - day hold).

Yes, we have seen a few market leaders break down, such as 3d Systems Corp ($ DDD) or Ocwen Financial Group ($ OCN), but the majority of leading individual stocks are still holding above their 50 - day moving averages and trending higher (or forming bullish basing patterns).

Underscoring the mixed - to - lower tone that emerged over the course of the day — not only was the NASDAQ off by nearly 50 points at its nadir — but the small - cap Russell 2000 had turned down by more than a full percentage points, as well, as losing stocks held a strong lead over gaining issues throughout.

The iShares FTSE / Xinhua China 25 Index ($ FXI) failed to hold support of its uptrending 50 - day MA this week, and is now breaking down below a recent swing low:

«Whether a self - styled seat - of - the - pants day trader or the kind of investor who intends to buy and hold forever, you're operating at a distinct disadvantage if you lack the skills to break a company down into its financial nuts and bolts.

I recently added some more shares to my existing holdings, so this move down just the day after my additions looks scary to me.

The storm clouds are building: the Dow has just suffered its first three - day losing streak for the year, the Chicago VIX [fear] index has climbed further; Europe is sliding off its highs; China is slowing down faster than expected, and the BOJ [Bank of Japan] is holding [off] on additional stimulus action.

With earnings coming just days after WPP CEO Martin Sorrell stepped down amid an investigation of misconduct, questions about the longevity of the holding company model have swirled.

Six days after: Stooping down to crawl under the sticks holding up a sheet that was now «home» to the family of twelve that my wife and I had lived with for seven months when we moved to Haiti eight years ago.

Well I pulled outta Pittsburgh a rollin» down that Eastern Seaboard I got my diesel wound up and she's a runnin» like a never before There's a speed zone ahead alright I don't see a cop in sight Six days on the road and I'm a gonna make it home tonight I got my ten forward gears and a Georgia overdrive I'm takin» little white pills and my eyes are open wide I just passed a Jimmy and a White I been a passin» everything in sight Six days on the road and I'm a gonna make it home tonight Well it seems like a month since I kissed my baby goodbye I could have a lotta women but I'm not like a some other guys I could find one to hold me tight but I could never make believe it's alright Six days on the road and I'm a gonna make it home tonight...

Christianity itself has become a principality and holds thousands captive, Before anyone comments on me calling todays Christianity a principality, (a demonic stronghold) let me just make a request that those who do answer are those who live as the followers of the way did in biblical times, that is, meeting every day, considering nothing they owned as their own, laying their lives down for the gospel (and not getting paid to do so) and having signs and wonders accompany them when they speak of the Lord.

Tears quietly streamed down his face as he watched himself recount his work as a hospital chaplain in Brooklyn, the day he held the shiny bald head of a man named Albert who looked into his eyes, said, «Don't be afraid,» and died.

My attention might be fractured during the day but we do find our moments — thanks to nursing, babywearing, or if we go visit my parents and then my mother sits and holds her for her late afternoon nap, patting her bum in the rhythm that has been passed down through the ages while rocking slowly.

Unfortunately, this renaissance of the past century and a half has been seriously restricted because most of the Islamic countries have been held down by alien political and economic controls which did not permit the creative participation in cultural activities which had been characteristic of Muslims in their glorious days in the past.

Since these three ideas are now identified as within the spectrum of legitimate Christian belief, a Mormon can hope that, the next time the question is raised in these pages, these three beliefs held by the Latter - day Saints will be moved from the down side to the plus side of the answer.

If you drill down and peel back the layers you will see that Seventh Day Adventism and Anglicanism both do not hold to salvation in Jesus Christ alone.

I made a promise to pray for one particular friend every single day of her pregnancy, this is how I did it: I wrote her name down and every day, I held her up to the Spirit and quietly prayed for peace, for strength, for joy, for wisdom, for all the big nouns to be gifts for her.

I would much rather spend my days on a sinking ship with those who love me, knowing that no matter what the future holds, I tried my hardest to lift people up and not slam them down.