Sentences with phrase «in menial jobs»

It adds up to a rebuttal against «the predominance of material on African Americans as enslaved people or working in menial jobs or other stereotypical situations,» as Cornell's Katherine Reagan says — these images show African Americans asserting their normality and freedom after the distorting horrors of slavery.

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

Perhaps the creative minds behind the film felt that the real humor comes in seeing Carrey and Leoni struggling in menial jobs, but if that's the assumption, they are clearly misguided.

Unfortunately, the house has already sold to an ex-Iranian colonel, Massoud Amir Berhani (Kingsley), who sees a way to make four times the amount he paid on the house, and restore dignity and honor to his family by not having o struggle to make ends meet in menial jobs.

Some of the routines in which Ted is badgered, bullied, and exploited by the guests seem directly inspired by The Bellboy and other Lewis comedies, but Lewis's consistent sense of solidarity with people in menial jobs is pointedly missing.

They live in the streets and in open places whiles engaging in menial jobs such as carrying of heavy loads on their heads.

Even the CEOs of major international companies had to begin in some menial job or other, earning a meagre wage so as to demonstrate their employability.

Not exact matches

«You learn more in waitressing than you can in any other job, and I had every kind of menial job you can imagine,» the self - made millionaire tells CNBC Make It.

Maddock kept thinking about all the menial tasks he had to perform at his Wall Street job — data entry in an Excel spreadsheet didn't exactly require special financial knowledge.

«You learn more in waitressing than you can in any other job, and I had every kind of menial job you can imagine,» Corcoran said in conversation with Farnoosh Torabi.

The job might seem unglamorous, tedious, and even menial in nature.

Like many immigrants before them, Alberto and Ana took menial jobs in their new country.

GALLOWAY: You were working sweeping floors in South Central L.A., you were doing menial jobs working at a gas station.

«You learn more in waitressing than you can in any other job, and I had every kind of menial job you can imagine,» Corcoran tells Torabi.

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?

The Dalits are the underclass who fall outside the Indian caste system and are assigned the most menial jobs in society.

While well - paying, career jobs in industry and large corporations decline, the number of low - paying menial jobs and part - time jobs increases, so that almost anyone with the capacity to work can find something.

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.

Two - thirds of the students supported themselves wholly or in part by working at the menial jobs traditionally available.

I know of hourly workers performing menial jobs who make significantly more than my teaching parent has ever made in her career.

Foster stands 6» 3 1/2», boxes well and generally is a somber man who broods even now over the fact that during his early days in the ring he was so little appreciated that he had to quit the sport and take a menial machinist's job in a York, Pa. bomb factory.

How did we lose some of these opportunities, which has forced our youth to abandon school in search of better lives through menial jobs?

They say working in the sex industry avoids employment in menial and poorly paid jobs.

They include the tolls charged head porters locally known as «Kayayei» who move from the north to the south of Ghana to engage in several menial jobs.

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.

A proud man, Massoud has literally been working overtime to keep up appearances; he has two menial jobs but changes into a suit in a hotel bathroom before returning home every day.

He's disappointed that she has to work menial jobs and they no longer live in an upscale place since he stopped fighting.

They work menial jobs in the daytime and look forward to their nightly performances before a fairly large group of mostly young people — who are supportive of the six comics called The Commune.

They take menial jobs just to pay the bills, while in their free time, they aren't involved in relationships that seem to be leading anywhere, and in general, they are in a complete state of limbo.

Years later, Ricki's aspirations have anticlimactically amounted to playing regular gigs of cover songs in a bar with her band, the Flash while balancing a menial cashier job during the day.

College graduate Megan has a menial job at her dad's accounting firm and hides out in a long relationship that clearly bores her.

He takes a seemingly menial job as a janitor in the laboratory of an astronomer (Allison Janney).

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.

«The Film Critic» is primarily an imaginative look at a budding romance between two quite different people, but in addition the story is filled with amusing side characters such as Victor's fellow critics who often seem comatose at the advance screenings and especially Leandro Arce (Ignacio Rogers), who would like to kill Victor as his films have been regularly panned by Victor, and whose columns have relegated at least one movie editor to a menial job.

Ryden is particularly lucky in that, while she might not be able to get a job in the field she wants, she can find the most menial, temporary work imaginable, with the added benefit of being able to quit at any given time.

A future in which the U.S. is no longer the high - skill country and in which other countries increasingly are the innovators does not mean that U.S. workers will be unemployed or that they will do only 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.

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.

Many students quit altogether and get a menial job in a shop or restaurant.

Nan and Pingping Wu have brought their young son to America, worked hard at menial jobs, opened a restaurant, bought and paid off a house in only a handful of rather unremarkable years.

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.

Good ol' Hank makes his way from booze - soaked nights in skid row Los Angeles around the country and back while slaving away at menial, mind - numbing jobs.

The title is most definitely a tongue - in - cheek look at conducting menial jobs in VR; though a comparison to Bossa Studios» Surgeon Simulator is perhaps inevitable, it's similar in spirit only, not form or function.

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When Fox's subversive paintings and sculptures first got noticed, in the 1990s, Bhabha didn't have gallery representation; through the years, they each held a string of 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?»

The ability both phones have to give menial jobs to low - power cores and demanding tasks to high - power cores means that everything should run that little bit smoother, so playing MMOs or online poker with will be as easy the game developers intended, even if you're running a number of other programs in the background.

You simply want to gain interest and a desire in meeting you, not bore the reader with menial tasks and job duties.

Stuck in a part - time position or menial job outside of your desired profession?

My professional creed includes: • Pride in the quality of my work, and a willingness to personally perform even the most menial tasks to remove project obstacles and get the job done.