Sentences with phrase «menial jobs at»

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.

So they are shackled to the dirt, hoping NGOs will pay them to do menial jobs at a fraction of the rate they might pay a Kenyan.

Einstein was so far ahead of his time, so out of step with his colleagues, that he had to take a menial job at the Swiss patent office while he hammered away at the mysteries of E = mc2.

To thwart this blatant act of democracy, Merrick changes his name and takes a menial job at the store, the better to catch the union activists without detection.

He's constantly late for his menial job at a local grocery store, and even when he does arrive on time, he can't seem to lock the doors on the delivery truck, causing hundreds of dollars of fish to fall out the back.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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

At your new job, you no longer have to perform the menial tasks that bogged down your previous «desk job.»

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

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

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.

PLOT: Aidan Bloom (Zach Braff) is a struggling actor trying to juggle the responsibilities of fatherhood with the pursuit of his acting dreams of glory - while his patient wife (Kate Hudson) supports the family working at a menial data entry job.

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.

Like his creator, Chinaski swings through a wide variety of low - paying, non-creative, menial jobs (working at a bike shop, a pickle factory, as an ice deliveryman and janitor) and a smaller handful of codependent, quasi-abusive monogamous relationships (embodied here by Marisa Tomei as a fling, and Lili Taylor as on - again / off - again girlfriend Janet).

Efron's Teddy is still on the journey of growing up, as his frat brothers have all progressed onto larger ambitions while Teddy bemoans having to wear a shirt to the menial job he still holds at Abercrombie and Fitch.

«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.

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

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.

Working through the night to write a book while slaving away at a menial day job is an obligatory component of every romantic self - published success story.

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.

Her family escaped to England after Kristallnacht, and she eventually found her way to New York, where she studied at the Art Students League while working at menial jobs to support herself.

Wojciech Gilewicz's video piece, Residency Unlimited, looks at jobs that may be considered menial, such as cleaning or construction, and are sometimes the only positions available for immigrants.

, looks at jobs that may be considered menial, such as cleaning or construction, and are sometimes the only positions available for immigrants.

For those just setting off on their career journey, you can usually expect to be given the most menial of tasks at a new job.