Sentences with phrase «odd jobs at»

«I managed to hold on, working odd jobs at night, while keeping the gallery open in the day.

At 14, your son is old enough to be mowing lawns, babysitting, and doing all sorts of odd jobs at home and in the neighbourhood for cash.

Smith was convicted of killing Bessie Goldberg, an older woman who had hired him to do odd jobs at her home in Belmont, a suburb of Boston.

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.

When Robinson was first released from federal prison in 2007 after serving six years for his involvement in marijuana dealing, he worked odd jobs at McDonald's and Price Chopper to earn cash.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

So the job has been left to a rather odd assortment of men, amateurs either at the game or the faith, who have tried with very little success to make sense of matters too deep for them.

Well, it's a bit odd, but Steve Wynn did «find» me at Raffles in Singapore and he asked me to interview for the initial job at the Bellagio.

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.

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.

We are extremely tired... it's not because you've been in the job for 20 odd years at Arsenal and more if we add up the the years outside that you know more on everything.

Wenger has been at this job far too long, let alone at a club for 20 odd years.

Everyone worked at odd jobs.

Ignore the odd bit of non-belief, the article does a good job of describing the substitutions at half time of extra time.

Iv just read Andy Prestons views and I can only admire his optimism because from where I'm sitting we have already blown it, Wenger couldn't find a striker in January?what that really means is not at the price he wants to pay, he has constantly neglected the team while picking up 8m a year, every thing he's done is rapidly going to waste because he is so arrogant and aligned to greedy Stan that his job is safer than anyone else in Europe, till he goes and greedy Stan goes we we may win the odd cup, but that's it,

I work 50 + hrs a week at the best job I'm capable of doing, do as many odd jobs for cash as I can find, barely see my kids other than just in time for bedtime, and $ 0.60 out of every dollar I earn goes to daycare.

«When Sheila was taking such a hard line stance as budget chair, keeping tax increases down and cutting every pencil and budget line she can, for her to take a patronage job at the Board of Elections is a little odd,» said another member of county government.

Gertrude worked in department stores, as a housekeeper, and at odd jobs.

His college education was hard won, at night, paid for by the various odd jobs he took during the day, first in Chicago and later in New York City, and interrupted by a two - year stint in the military.

Danielle Moss was at the tail end of her 20s, working odd jobs, when she decided to move from Los Angeles to Chicago.

As tuition was expensive, he did a range of odd jobs during his studies, working at places like SEHM, a menswear salon.

In the meantime, I worked odd jobs and found another unpaid gig at the Getty Research Institute.

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.

Elsewhere, obscure league member Chuck (Will Forte) is introduced, Kevin (Stephen Rannazzisi) and Jenny (Katie Aselton) make a bold bet in the playoffs, and Taco's (Jon Lajoie) odd jobs include a shot at fast - food jingle writing.

Pearce is very good at showing the little touches of transgression that this relationship involves: Moll asks Pascal to come to the family home to do some odd jobs, and Pascal, with instinctive truculence, smokes in the house and muddies up the carpet; Johnny Flynn's performance shows how Pascal is savouring the sense that he has the rights of a disapproved - of boyfriend, and it is by rudeness that he will bolster this position.

As Soyoung grows increasingly exasperated, Jin loses heart, develops a worsening drinking problem and fails at various odd jobs.

At war's end he moved to New York and studied at the American Theater Wing, meanwhile working in odd jobAt war's end he moved to New York and studied at the American Theater Wing, meanwhile working in odd jobat the American Theater Wing, meanwhile working in odd jobs.

When we meet Lee Chandler (Affleck), he's living a solitary and pretty grim - looking life as a Boston apartment block janitor: by day, he does odd jobs for people he never bonds with; by night, he drinks alone at a local bar.

Steely - eyed and soft - hearted, Mike connects with Judy instantly — he also happens to be attempted to be repossessing her TV at the time, just one of the odd jobs his de facto father, Klan boss Tom Griffin (Tom Wilkinson) provides for him — his first experience feeling any kind of connection with a woman.

Gosling plays a man with no name (wink - wink) who works at a body shop by day, but at night masquerades as a driver for hire whom criminals pay good money to extract their cohorts from robberies and other odd jobs.

Despite the odd choice of making the Defender arcade machine green, they did a good job at emulating a dumbed - down version of the real thing, complete with Defender artwork and joystick.

At least the head - up display (which is on an odd piece of protruding plastic) is clear and does a good job of distilling the vital information so that it is available at a glancAt least the head - up display (which is on an odd piece of protruding plastic) is clear and does a good job of distilling the vital information so that it is available at a glancat a glance.

Working at a car wash transitioned into odd jobs for a car collector.

Look at what Pagani has accomplished in the nineteen years since he and his new bride arrived in Italy, living in a tent and scrabbling at odd jobs to survive, and you are a good person indeed if you are not just a little bit touched by Envy.

Beans and his brother Kermit do odd jobs like collecting milk bottles and, at one point, even smuggling liquor in their wagon.

That was at least ten years ago, and since then, Josh has done just about every sort of odd job a foreigner in Thailand can do: He taught English for a while, and was part owner of a nightclub in Phuket.

In part one, Sedaris touches on speech therapy for his lisp at school, guitar lessons from a midget, inherited traits, artistic talent, sibling swearing, family pets, working as a teacher, toilet legacies, odd jobs, eating out in NYC, visitors to NYC, outward appearances, and technophobia.

When not at school, he could be found working odd jobs like delivering newspapers or washing cars, and using these proceeds to reinvest in other business ideas.

Find a way to make extra money by freelancing, getting a part - time job, increasing your hours at work or picking up odd jobs such as petsitting, babysitting, working as a consultant, or coaching or tutoring high school students.

The couple married in 1997 when Shauna was 25, and over the years Dan was always the breadwinner while she mostly worked part - time at odd jobs.

«I was attracted to the fact that he was bright, he spoke Spanish and he was a very good dancer,» says Erica, an Ottawa native who spent her 20s and 30s working at odd jobs and earning a master's degree in translation.

Companies like TaskRabbit will put you in touch with people who need odd jobs done — everything from waiting in line at the DMV to putting together IKEA furniture.

Chances are you've probably had a side hustle at some point in your life — maybe babysitting, house or pet sitting, doing yard work, or performing other odd jobs for neighbors.

He began saving for veterinary school doing odd jobs such as newspaper delivery, mowing lawns, landscaping, working at a hardware store, working at a machine shop and then finally working at local veterinary clinics.

«The support from Zoetis and the AVMF will allow me to seek opportunities for experience in wild life pathology labs, rather than spending my summer working odd - jobs to pay for vet school and my undergrad loans,» said Colleen Shockling Dent, MPH - VPH, a second year student at The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine.