Sentences with phrase «menial jobs»

Working menial jobs at a construction site and a convenience store is not enough to support his family.

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

Donald got a jump - start in the business while he was in college in the 1960s, working menial jobs at his father's lower - middle class apartment complex in Cincinnati.

Even kids that initially choose not to go to school of some kind my change their mind after holding a number of menial jobs for a while.

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.

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.

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

With little by way of academic credentials, she struggles with menial jobs to be able to provide food for her daughter and pay rent to her motel's manager Bobby (Willem Dafoe).

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.

Barred from Earth and relegated to performing dangerous or menial jobs on off - world colonies, those replicants that defy the ban are hunted down and killed by «Blade Runners,» such as Ford's Deckard, who's drawn out of retirement for one last job.

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?

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

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

Some bully their staff, others make them perform menial jobs such as collect dry - cleaning, babysitting or arranging parts of their wedding.

I don't worry about my home or income, because I know that if needed, I would take two or three jobs (even menial jobs) to always make sure my family has the three most important items: Shelter, food, and clothing.

Some of what Nikkei reports has been heard before, Kotaku points out, but most of it highlights a workplace where employee movement is monitored by camera and developers are reassigned to menial jobs if they're considered no longer useful.

Leaving his studies, he takes on a variety of menial jobs while Pingping works for a wealthy widow as a cook and housekeeper.

Robots are going to replace the most menial jobs first.

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.

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.

Even if they did find menial jobs, Okies had to work twice as hard to prove themselves.

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.

Doing your very best at each stage, no matter how menial the job may seem, will help you to reach your goals.

I am an artist first and I want to be a full time artist with a studio but I'm about to graduate from art school and I'm starting to realize the harsh reality that I might have to waste my talent and youth in some labor intensive menial job that...

Two stories in one documentary: one is about a mysterious woman who hid world class photographic talent behind menial jobs as either nanny or maid, and the other addresses what happens when a professional graverobber discovers the goods.

He refused to allow Creighton to enter show business, wanting his son to prepare for a more «practical» profession; so young Chaney trained to be plumber, and worked a variety of relatively menial jobs despite his father's fame.

They flip through a few menial jobs, making a spectacular mess of whatever situation they enter, while also tangling with a cheeky tabloid photographer (the young Michael York).

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

But, by day, they have to support themselves by working soul - crushing menial jobs.

As outsourcing menial jobs to foreign countries becomes more popular it should come as no surprise that outsourcing the care of the elderly should follow.

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.

After losing his ear in a desert incident that's described in wrenching detail at the novel's climax, he has migrated to the capital, moving through a series of menial jobs until he finds a position as a servant at the finance ministry.

Literary history is full of wonderful writers who worked regular jobs, often quite menial jobs, while they worked on their writing.

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.

Her paintings feature hardworking, unglamorous figures whom she either knows or has sought out, wanting to document and pay tribute to their often - overlooked communities, and the sometimes menial jobs they hold.

However, despite attracting praise from the famous writer Emile Zola, and being an active member of the emerging Impressionist group, lack of money not infrequently forced him to take menial jobs painting postcards and decorating shop fronts.

The Balinese themselves see little financial gain from the millions of dollars that pass through this place except for very low pay for mostly menial jobs.

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.

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

In possession of neither a high - school diploma nor a GED, Brady — a minor celebrity in his small town, where rodeo highlights seem to be on loop on TV — works a variety of menial jobs at the local mega-mart.

With bravado and tenacity, Alvarenga worked his way up, first taking menial jobs and gaining the villagers» trust, and eventually captaining his own boat and earning a reputation as the best fisherman in the village.

Many saw the ad as a ploy to help the government meet that requirement — but only by offering religious minorities the most menial jobs.

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.

Nikkei reported that Konami was assigning game developers to menial jobs if the company no longer saw those people as useful; that cameras had been installed to monitor employee movements; and that supervisors were closely tracking lunch breaks and publicly shaming employees who were out of the office for too long.

So, the President felt that these folks that are often working two or three menial jobs while waiting to get hired on within their field should get a break.

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.

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.