The phrase
"odd jobs" means small tasks or chores that are not part of a regular job or routine. These tasks can be random, varied, or unusual, and may include basic maintenance, repairs, or small tasks around the house or workplace.
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The next year, he was back, working a series
of odd jobs and eventually bringing over his wife and children.
The spend most of their free time
working odd jobs with family members and dreaming of an easier life.
I
took odd jobs doing what I could because student loan repayment started.
He supported himself instead
with odd jobs including operating an illegal casino.
Try to combine a set of short
odd jobs in any one listing.
I have used income
from odd jobs, my business, and my emergency fund to sustain my mini retirement.
On board the ship I did
odd jobs like helped at the art auction or passed out brochures for the port shopping consultant.
I don't plan on getting a degree, and will travel, volunteer, sell art online, and
get odd jobs here and there to support my lifestyle.
If you currently have no money saved up, and need to pay off some bills, doing a
few odd jobs can help you get some quick cash to pay them off.
So he did a lot of work,
including odd jobs on the side to help support his mother and his child.
Sadly, you have no money to spend in this arcade so you must travel around this pixel town to find people that
need odd jobs done.
After working
many odd jobs developing software, I created credit check software for an acquaintance's business.
He managed to design these products in his off hours from
different odd jobs to make ends meet.
While there are many
odd jobs involved in being a member of the customer support team my favorite has to be my time spent speaking with our customers.
She and her two sisters had held
several odd jobs with humane societies and pet shops.
She works
odd jobs if she feels like it, but is devoted to the cause and her family.
These two
odd jobs enabled me to pay rent, have a car, put myself through art school, buy top quality art supplies, plus buy a beer now and then!
Every employee is sometimes asked to do
odd job duties that aren't related to their job title.
She made ends meet by picking up
interim odd jobs, including driving a school bus for several months.
If you're
tackling odd jobs and repairs, we've found really reasonably priced tool kits to cover a wealth of household repairs.
I don't do much,
odd jobs for people and friends and try to keep it as chill as possible.
Most of my classmates
took odd jobs to make rent, so I felt like I was ahead of the game.
Their marriages dissolved, and their careers were reduced to a series
of odd jobs and disability checks.
Still supplementing my freelance income with teaching, tutoring, and
other odd jobs, I had very little time for career development.
This may include fancy coffee in the morning as an expense or doing
odd jobs on the side for some extra income.
From organizing the garage to cooking meals, here's how to hire someone to help
with odd jobs.
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.
I
did odd jobs for the leasing manager at my apartment complex, i.e. painting, cleaning, etc..
Bevirt spent hundreds of hours cleaning up nails and performing other
odd jobs at construction sites to earn enough for the costly mountain bikes and computers that would feed his technology habit as the years went by.
Exec launched a few weeks ago with an ultra-easy-to-use system for booking exec assistants to do various
odd jobs around San Francisco.
Smitty also owns a stable of young boxers, many of whom work at
various odd jobs for him.
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.
Michail Antonio is becoming Slav's
odd job man; right back, right wing, wing - back and striker.
The Bloomfield, MI, native worked a series of
odd jobs before graduating from high school and enrolling in Oakland University — eventually realizing that her only hope for escaping the Midwest and accomplishing her goal of becoming an actress was convincing her parents to let her study drama at Juilliard.
It also made him realize he needed to supplement his income, which including taking
odd jobs as a DJ, a medical test subject and a campus administrative assistant.
There is more than a hint of autobiography in Oser's two main characters — the author spent a somewhat aimless youth floating
between odd jobs and playing bass in the popular Portland - area band the Riflebirds in the 1980s before earning a PhD at Yale, returning to Catholicism, and devoting himself to teaching.
As a child, Mugabe helped out by tending the family's cows and making money
through odd jobs.
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more odd jobs of (in) famous writers over on Writer's Digest.