Sentences with phrase «many odd jobs»

It might be an odd job, it might be a reward for reading.

From the age that he could first make himself useful, Cornell says, he did odd jobs in his spare time: shoveling snow, mowing lawns, stacking bricks.

He showed early entrepreneurial promise selling candy and doing odd jobs for neighbors, eventually going on to become the founder of the Standard Oil Company.

An environmental activist with no business training and a resume that was little more than a string of odd jobs, he was drawn to the idea of running a business with a strong social mission.

It includes Uber, the alternative taxi dispatcher whose $ 50 billion valuation makes it the world's most valuable startup; Lyft, its biggest rival; TaskRabbit, which farms out errands and odd jobs; and Instacart, a $ 2 billion grocery - delivery service.

He realized he wanted to start his own company, and «almost arbitrarily» chose to move to Portland, Oregon, where he worked odd jobs until he landed at a digital marketing agency run by his friend Zeke Camusio.

Eventually, Zhou hopes San Francisco — based SherpaShare can answer that question by working with on - demand platforms to create a schedule for a user's day — drive for Uber in the morning; finish odd jobs for TaskRabbit in the afternoon — to meet an income goal.

Zorrilla is a first - generation American from a tight - knit family in the Bronx — her father did odd jobs, and her mother owns a nail salon, where Zorrilla ran the desk and booked appointments.

A three - time community - college dropout, he spent most of his early twenties working odd jobs, hanging out with his friends at a nearby lake, and generally goofing off.

To help pay for Langone's school at Bucknell University, he worked odd jobs and his parents mortgaged their home.

In 2007, Amoruso was working odd jobs at shoe and record stores when she realized she was bad at working for other people.

After working many odd jobs developing software, I created credit check software for an acquaintance's business.

Eklund, on the heels of a controversial, year - long stint in California as an adult film star under the name Tag Eriksson, got to work taking odd jobs and hawking paninis outside the set of David Letterman's Late Show.

The couple also took on odd jobs.

After working more than 20 odd jobs, including diner waitress and hot dog vendor, Corcoran borrows $ 1,000 from her then - boyfriend, Ramon Simone, to start a real estate business, Corcoran Simone.

So if you're looking for inspiration on how to be productive when business drops off in the summer, check out Young Entrepreneurs Council's round up of 12 founders» responses to the question, «What odd jobs and tasks do you work on for your business during a slow season to keep busy and prepare for a busy time ahead?»

Here are four lessons from some of the most outlandish odd jobs out there:

I have used income from odd jobs, my business, and my emergency fund to sustain my mini retirement.

Some oil workers have resorted to working odd jobs on the side, taking vacation to work abroad, or even selling their work uniforms - red overalls - for money to eat.

Tell your friends, family, and neighbors that you are available to do this kind of work or that you are available for odd jobs that they might have.

This could make things complicated for trust fund babies, freelance workers, and people that just get by on odd jobs.

As a teenager, I talked my grandpa into letting me invest a small amount I'd saved from odd jobs and gifts in his next commercial real estate deal.

He managed to design these products in his off hours from different odd jobs to make ends meet.

A little college here, some odd jobs there, three or four different cities, and who knows if I'm done yet.

In rummaging around in the system, Whitehead turns up a few odd jobs for God — a metaphysical WPA program.

You start your new life performing odd jobs around town for your cousin — making deliveries and handshake deals — but the pressures of capitalism begin to force Niko (you) toward more illicit activities.

Now he faces the prospect of poverty and taking odd jobs to feed his two daughters...»

Now he faces the prospect of poverty and taking odd jobs to feed his two daughters, 10 and 13.

Uhhh... Same with saying he contemplated going hungry or getting by on odd jobs.

Even when she made it through the odd jobs, milking cows and clearing tables, when she became a cook for the university, I imagine she did not see that she would eventually become the Head Dietician and that for decades businessmen from all over Chattanooga would swarm to that dining hall and stand in line with undergrads to buy a plate of her remarkable food.

His mother was reduced to sewing for pennies, with Charles and his brother selling newspapers and doing odd jobs.

When I saw him there, a few days after he rang me, he told me he could get odd jobs and help with the Way - Out centre.

Even children search for odd jobs to earn a few coins.

We filled in with odd jobs, me writing for websites and Dan editing a few videos for a friend.

Charles Stapleton, 52, targeted his neighbour, widow Teresa Wishart, who he befriended months earlier and did paid odd jobs for in her home in Kirkby, Merseyside.

«Our mum had a heart of gold and had given that man odd jobs to do days before he chose to enter our mum's home and savagely attack her, then ransack her beautiful home.»

He spent his twenties moving around, doing odd jobs and living in motels, coming home to work harvests when he went broke.

Like many immigrants, he earned a living completing odd jobs.

Between interning in D.C. with the Discovery Channel, working at the Lancaster CSA I farmed with last summer, teaching yoga, and some other odd jobs, I've been having one crazy, busy summer.

«Between interning in D.C. with the Discovery Channel, working at the Lancaster CSA I farmed with last summer, teaching yoga, and some other odd jobs»....

He held a series of odd jobs, including selling cigarettes to wharfies and ferrying people around on his bike, before beginning a tool - making apprenticeship at 13.

When we were in high school, my best friend and I had an unusual way of spending our allowance and other money earned from odd jobs.

One day, while doing odd jobs to make ends meet, he was taking trash out from the same Balthazar worksite where he later met Tarlow's roommate.

After taking two classes at Loyola of Chicago while working odd jobs, he returned to New Haven in» 96, knowing almost no other students, with no athletic eligibility left.

Tim Tebow will be asked to do more in the New York Jets» Week 5 game against the Houston Texans after spending most of the year working odd jobs for the Jets» sputtering offense.

He dismissed six friends who were involved with his record label and doing odd jobs for him while they lived in a house he was leasing for $ 30,000 a year.

MacPherson bought it secondhand for $ 2,200 from his earnings as a Good Humor man and other odd jobs.

It is the fate of most geldings to spend their lives knocking around like equine handymen, doing whatever odd job comes along.

Well, fine, he can hang around a bit, doing odd jobs.

Both 31 - year - olds grew up in towns of 2,500 — Banks in Arkansas and Krenik in Minnesota — and have traveled and worked odd jobs around the U.S. since.