Sentences with phrase «odd jobs at home»

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

Why is it then that so many new graduates are living at home with their parents and are working odd jobs just to make a semblance of a living?

If I hadn't been so busy with all the odd jobs you give me around the house after I get home from a stressful day at work, maybe I could have remembered!