Sentences with phrase «odd jobs on»

Jack Spivey plays for his home town in Arkansas and picks up odd jobs on the side when he runs afoul of the local gangster.

I've had to perform a couple of odd jobs on the Blazer over the years, including nominal things like fuses, medium jobs like swapping out the battery, and up to having to change out the fuel filter after it died one day.

When she could, she did odd jobs on the side.

Dissatisfied with a mere taste of the theatrical arts and eager to extend acting into a full - time passion, Eigenberg subsequently moved to New York and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, working odd jobs on the side (construction et al.) to put himself through school.Scattered roles followed, including a guest appearance on The Cosby Show and a bit part in the awful 1989 generation - gap comedy Rude Awakening (co-starring Cheech Marin and Eric Roberts), but Sex and the City (which Eigenberg auditioned for out of innumerable hopefuls) represented the actor's first huge break.

So he did a lot of work, including odd jobs on the side to help support his mother and his child.

Some oil workers have resorted to working odd jobs on the side, taking vacation to work abroad, or even selling their work uniforms - red overalls - for money to eat.

Not exact matches

He showed early entrepreneurial promise selling candy and doing odd jobs for neighbors, eventually going on to become the founder of the Standard Oil Company.

Eventually, Zhou hopes San Francisco — based SherpaShare can answer that question by working with on - demand platforms to create a schedule for a user's day — drive for Uber in the morning; finish odd jobs for TaskRabbit in the afternoon — to meet an income goal.

Eklund, on the heels of a controversial, year - long stint in California as an adult film star under the name Tag Eriksson, got to work taking odd jobs and hawking paninis outside the set of David Letterman's Late Show.

The couple also took on odd jobs.

So if you're looking for inspiration on how to be productive when business drops off in the summer, check out Young Entrepreneurs Council's round up of 12 founders» responses to the question, «What odd jobs and tasks do you work on for your business during a slow season to keep busy and prepare for a busy time ahead?»

This could make things complicated for trust fund babies, freelance workers, and people that just get by on odd jobs.

Uhhh... Same with saying he contemplated going hungry or getting by on odd jobs.

For 38 - odd chapters Job describes to God, in terms bordering on (and perhaps entering) the realm of blasphemy, the realities of human existence on earth.

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.

Nice job, odd play design to be called on that short of a field.

But then AFC operates in a pressure free comfort zone hence mediocrity has become the watch word... manager is assured of a job for life no matter how badly he is performing, that reflects on the players as they know that as long as the manager still has a job then they cam continue drawing their huge weekly checks and delivering the odd patches of good forms....

ospina has been quite solid for us this season bar the odd mistake, he seems to get on with the job and will make a good number 1 again next season, once we get a settled defensive partnership in front of him of gabriel and kos he willl feel more secure.

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.

Odd that Wolves owner Steve Morgan would term this a «decisive» step when the Molineux club had effectively ran out of options after a number of manager's the club did want did not fancy taking the job on.

I've held the same salaried teachers position for 4 years, in addition to taking on odd jobs and side hustles to support us while he studied his trade.

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.

Soon she was taking on odd jobs for family, including scooping walks, dog walking, and simple cleaning chores.

So it is odd to hear someone as canny and careful as David Greenfield break the façade and reference the Speaker's race on the public record, 19 months ahead of time, with the two leading candidates for the job (Johnson and Ferreras - Copeland) sitting right there.

Less than 18 months after being elected speaker, Paul Ryan has emerged from the defeat of the health care bill badly damaged, retaining a grip on the job but left to confront the realities of his failure — imperiling the odd - couple partnership that was supposed to sustain a new era of conservative government under unified Republican rule.

Cue embarrassing questions about whether shadow ministers collected receipts for every odd job or window cleaned and the circumstances in which Ed Miliband's mother seems to have avoided tax on the house in which he now lives.

On the same claim - part of a # 2,191 invoice for odd jobs that included cleaning a shower head - Mr Willetts charged another # 80 to «change light bulbs in bathroom».

«I was often catching fish to help put food on the table and doing odd jobs to help us get by,» Pearson says.

I'm also busy archiving all my little tidbits of research, just in case I have the opportunity to fiddle around on the odd Friday afternoon when my next job comes along.

Whether it's the creaky old house I live in, the odd variety of jobs I take, the people I love, or staying home alone and painting my bedroom on Thanksgiving.

Thinking back on those odd - ball jobs makes me laugh.

Fernandez felt grateful for the opportunity, but reportedly hated the job itself so much that he hearkened off for the greener pastures of acting.Fernandez landed his first formal acting assignments as a guest star on episodes of the network series Cold Case and Jericho in 2006 and 2007, but truly came into his own as a star of low - medium budgeted independent films such as director Marc - Andre Samson's taut thriller Interstate (2006)(as a young man trying desperately to reach his girlfriend in Los Angeles, but waylaid by drugs and the trappings of an odd motel), and directors Lucky McKee and Trygve Diesen's violent psychological thriller Red (as a disturbed young man who plays the role of accomplice in killing a senior citizen's dog).

This time the lovable marmalade - eater is taking on a few odd jobs to earn some spending money.

The story focuses on the painfully odd teen, Duncan (Liam James), who is forced into a vacation with his mom (Toni Collette) and her boyfriend (Steve Carell) who's decided it's his job to educate and humiliate Duncan over the course of their stay.

In the 1960s, his feature film debut, he plays the haunted and pale Boo Radley in To Kill A Mocking Bird; in the 1970s he immortalized his love for the smell of napalm in the morning as a general who like to surf and plays Wagner when going into battle; in the 1980s he plays a quiet, down - on - his - luck country singer who does odd jobs for room and board while trying to put his life back together; and in the 1990s his turn as the bombastic Apostle E.F. might just be the best single performance of that decade.

Meanwhile, Michele, frustrated by having to take on odd - jobs like delivering messages and hanging wallpaper, ends up depressed by this sorry state of affairs.

The director behind comedies When Harry Met Sally and The Princess Bride seems like an odd choice to helm the adaptation of Stephen King's captivity nightmare, but his work on Stand By Me convinced Stephen King himself that Rob Reiner was perfect for the job.

When his best friend bails on him, a grad student spends his summer alone working odd jobs and encountering a series of questionable mentors in this adaptation of a David Sedaris essay.

Channing Tatum's divorced, amiable odd - jobber Jimmy Logan is fired from a job digging out sink - holes beneath the Charlotte NASCAR speedway for having a gammy leg, something he neglected to mention on his application form.

Not to disappoint, this film also features such time - honored classic clichés like the killer that seemingly is able to keep pace with someone running full speed while he is merely walking briskly (just once I'd like to see a psychopath who drives everywhere), the scared teen bumping into someone they think is the killer when it clearly is a coat rack, the killer that insists on using some odd instrument of death when a gun would do the job ten times more efficiently, and the ending that sets up the sequel should this one prove a financial success.

Bob Rafelson's powerful drama stars Jack Nicholson as a Philadelphia radio DJ who is reluctantly drawn into the schemes of his unstable brother Jason, who sleeps rough in Atlantic City, does odd jobs for the mob and has a plan to get rich by building a paradise retreat on a Pacific island.

Students on the wrestling team rented themselves out on several weekends to do odd jobs, such as raking leaves, mowing lawns, and shoveling snow; the $ 10 an hour fee aided the team.

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 glance.

If you want to attract even more attention, then the new Championship Yellow paint job should do the trick — although it's inclusion on the palette is a little odd considering Suzuki's last title success was the Junior World Rally Championship way back in 2010.

Split front headlights look a little odd on some paint jobs, but the angular front end sweeps dramatically back to a sharply styled rear.

From odd jobs to daily use, the Silverado 1500 is a vehicle you can rely on.

Learn about more odd jobs of (in) famous writers over on Writer's Digest.

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.

Now, twenty years on, my writing awards have given me the freedom to give up odd jobs and focus on writing full - time.

Just because it doesn't have a half eaten devils apple on it I get a 900 odd dollar saving and I'm not contributing to steve jobs health bills, deaths in his factories, his pollluting factories and his apple religion.