Sentences with phrase «job in a former life»

I know that because that was my job in a former life, and I'm the first one to admit that I never considered myself an expert.

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Freeland, a former journalist who would have been used to obfuscation in her old job, has become rather good at it in her new life as a cabinet minister.

The job also puts Gore in charge of Dell's global policy initiatives, empowers her to advocate for pro-entrepreneur regulations and has enabled her to reconnect with former colleagues at the U.N. «I've lived and worked in the humanitarian world for my entire career,» she says.

I know broadcast meterologists» first job is to protect life and property, but on this Earth Day, I wonder how many of my former colleagues have mentioned climate change in their longform coverage of these natural disasters.

They are examples of how global outsourcing companies are using temporary visas to bring in foreign workers who do not appear to have exceptional skills — according to interviews with a dozen current or former employees of Toys «R» Us and New York Life — to help ship out jobs, mainly to India.

I work with a lot of former drug addicts in my job, and I am always amazed at how quickly they turn from drugs to the Bible, which is still a much better trade, but then quickly becomes almost as destructive on their life, their job, and their relationships as drugs were before.

Later, when our second son was born, I worked part time a few days a week, relying on the help of the lovely young woman, a former nanny who lived in our rental until and watched the boys in exchange for reduced rent while she went to school to become a hair stylist, until I got a job that I could do at home, as the editor of a kids» newspaper.

Visibly rocked and distressed by what he has seen, Ayan resigns from his job and begins a long, dangerous battle against his former employers as he fights for justice and the truth, which sees his life endangered and go into hiding for over seven years in Canada.

Spitzer's chief complaint about then - Assemblyman Tom DiNapoli when he was up for disgraced former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi's job back in 2007 was that he was a life - long public servant and lacked financial expertise.

The famously raunchy former frontman of the rap group 2 Live Crew, Luther «Uncle Luke» Campbell, was one of dozens of locals who begged Carvalho not to leave for a job running New York's schools — right before Carvalho made the dramatic announcement that he's staying in Miami after all.

Watchdog restricts former PM's dealings with ministers in life sciences and Chinese trade jobs.

Lib Dem MP and former defence minister Nick Harvey backed this up, commenting that Straw's definition fell short of addressing how often people expect MPs to be in their constituencies, and remarked how much more a way of life than a regular job being a politician can be:

The head of NYC's largest retirement system hired her former live - in girlfriend to a six - figure managerial job — and the city gave its blessing.

You're doing a great job,» said David Stay, a former city resident who now lives in Rensselaer.

With a shiny purple blouse and a trace of nerves in her voice, Long, a conservative judicial crusader and former clerk to Clarence Thomas who currently lives in Manhattan, said she grew up a «small - town girl» whose first job was shoveling manure out of stables.

A Comprehensive Review of E-Verify In my former life as a detective with the Nevada State Police, the most important tool I had to utilize for my job was Background Checks and Pre Employment Screening from Corra Group Employee Background Check Screening Services.

On the civilian front, Mason Weaver (Brie Larson) is a tough, sexy «photojournalist» (a job that exists in the movies, not so much in real life) who senses the story of a lifetime, and Bill has also hired a tracker: former British special forces guy James Conrad (Hiddleston) whose alpha chops are established at the very beginning with a perfunctory fight in a bar.

Guy Pearce turns in a reserved performance as Keith, a former musician and dissatisfied family man longing to leave his job as a high school music teacher and return to the exciting life he had before he and his wife (Amy Ryan) left New York City for a quiet, suburban existence.

In portraying the intensity of Joe's physical and emotional struggle, Ramsay pitches him in a hazy place between life and death, haunted by traumatic memories of the past: an abusive father, unforgiving battlegrounds, former jobs that collectively take their toll, among theIn portraying the intensity of Joe's physical and emotional struggle, Ramsay pitches him in a hazy place between life and death, haunted by traumatic memories of the past: an abusive father, unforgiving battlegrounds, former jobs that collectively take their toll, among thein a hazy place between life and death, haunted by traumatic memories of the past: an abusive father, unforgiving battlegrounds, former jobs that collectively take their toll, among them.

At 32, she loses her job, descends into abject alcoholism (in the book getting fat for good measure, a disaster spared Blunt) and is frankly tortured as she spies from the train on her former husband Tom (Justin Theroux), still living in the family home, now with pretty blonde Anna (Rebecca Ferguson), with whom he had an affair, and the cute baby Rachel couldn't have, plus another couple, a few doors (or here, plots) down, hunky Scott (Luke Evans) and his hottie blonde wife Megan (Haley Bennett, very good, curiously J - Law - like).

Barry is a former Marine living in the Midwest who got into killing because he had the skill set for the job.

«If our nation does not adequately develop and sustain its skilled technical workforce, the consequences will be seen in lower productivity, fewer job opportunities, and a lower standard of living for Americans,» said Jeff Bingaman, the chair of the National Academies committee that wrote the report and a former U.S. senator from New Mexico, in a statement.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama on Friday lambasted what she saw as a surplus of «bad behavior» currently being «modeled in public life» that makes the job of educators more difficult.

A former pastor who saw his own life turn upside down, Palmer took a roller coaster ride from driven evangelical pastor to discount store clerk (among other jobs), a process that might seem disastrous in our success - driven...

In the good old days, someone who worked a lifetime in a single job offering a defined benefit pension may have «retired» full stop at or around age 65, and received one giant monthly stream of income from their former employer for life, plus the usual government benefitIn the good old days, someone who worked a lifetime in a single job offering a defined benefit pension may have «retired» full stop at or around age 65, and received one giant monthly stream of income from their former employer for life, plus the usual government benefitin a single job offering a defined benefit pension may have «retired» full stop at or around age 65, and received one giant monthly stream of income from their former employer for life, plus the usual government benefits.

After Rick got laid off in 2010, and took a job at 80 % of his former salary, we lived on credit cards to make up the difference.

In the case of his former life, it was criminal activity, dog fighting and yet he still gave that «job» 110 percent effort because that's what his person wanted him to do.

Why it was a dream trip: Before the trip, the Sproule family lived in Namibia for Sproule's former job with the World Wildlife Fund, so his kids knew travel as going to «high - end safari lodges.»

After a long hiatus from mermaid life and retiring from a job with the Postal Service, the former mermaid returned to perform at the springs in 2015 as a «Legendary Siren» (#goals).

Rikke Hansen: First of all, and I'm speaking as a, in my former life, HR manager, remember that job ads are human resources wishlist for Father Christmas.