Sentences with phrase «odd jobs before»

After leaving school the next year, he held a series of odd jobs before returning to sign painting, joining the sign painters union and working mostly for the Artkraft Strauss Sign Corporation, which painted some of the largest billboards in the world.

Born in 1958, he worked odd jobs before earning a bachelor's degree from the California Institute of the Arts in 1995.

In Buffalo, Diller worked many odd jobs before landing a steady position as a janitor.

He studied liberal arts and science, cofounded a liberal daily newspaper, and supported himself with odd jobs before leaving Yale in 1923 without graduating to commit himself to life as an artist.

Will had various odd jobs before the outbreak and relocated several times during, so he struggles to protect his family.

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.

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«Our mum had a heart of gold and had given that man odd jobs to do days before he chose to enter our mum's home and savagely attack her, then ransack her beautiful home.»

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.

That does nt bother me though, as I feel a particular way about money vs self worth (because there where people living & eating & marrying looong before the Rothschilds invented money...), but I would like to think I am smart, I am okay looking I guess (I tend to garner the odd smile from a pretty girl on a good day), am ambitious in the sense that I would like to make my mark in history & change the world for the better (I do actively try to do this & am not just a «dreamer») & I have a job.

Patton then fled, stealing a van before ditching it in Queens and taking odd jobs as he made his way to Memphis, where he likely had contacts, Nassau County Police Department Detective Lt. Stephen Fitzpatrick said Saturday.

In winter 2014, the show tours on to the Musée des beaux - arts de Montreal, to a city where Doig spent a few years as a young man between degrees (odd - jobbing as a colour mixer and painter for a theatrical scenic artist) before completing his art education in London.

As a child he had little exposure to art, but he drew incessantly, and before he was out of his teens his teachers encouraged him to go to New York, where he enrolled at Parsons, then dropped out, did odd jobs, and barely got by.

To celebrate Halloween this week, let's enhance motivation for your job search by looking at horror icons and the odd jobs and careers they held before landing on the ghoulish side of Hollywood.

Before they were renowned actors, prestigious producers, accomplished authors and popular celebrities, these people held a number of ordinary and odd jobs.