Sentences with phrase «of little jobs»

I found an email I sent to my mum (who is recovering from a double knee replacement) with a long list of little jobs like painting furniture, up cycling the trampoline, changing the front door area, that I asked them come and help me fix them all up.

No special cutter is needed for these beautiful biscuits, and there are plenty of little jobs for young cooks to help out with.

Starting out young and having lots of little jobs, whether it's working for the town delivering papers, pumping gas, working in an Italian restaurant, pushing shopping carts at Finast Supermarket.

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Rather than judge Canada's success on abstract measures, which have little meaning to average folk — GDP, productivity, trade balances — Trudeau's candidacy is built on a pragmatic mantra: «A strong economy is the one that provides the largest number of good jobs for the largest number of Canadians.»

«There weren't even little fingerprints on the inspection buttons,» Leone says of one job he took over after one building's landlords fired the previous contractor.

This is what it's like to have 12 weeks of leave after having a baby, if you're lucky enough to even have a job that offers it: You begin figuring out child care almost right away; the irony that you barely know how to take care of this little person and now must somehow assess someone else's ability to do so does not escape you.

Less than half of Gen Y lists their employer on Facebook, and unless they're job hunting, there is little reason for a teacher to advertise their profession on their personal profile.

Take the time to get rid of all of those niggling little jobs and projects that are «incomplete».

Secondly, he noted «the root causes of the global crisis have not been prop ¬ erly tackled» with the financial system remaining «the Achilles heel of the world economy» and thirdly, «little progress is being made in reducing working poverty and vulnerable forms of employment such as informal jobs and undeclared work.»

An environmental activist with no business training and a resume that was little more than a string of odd jobs, he was drawn to the idea of running a business with a strong social mission.

Even though Tripathi had never heard of it before, in March 1998 he left his prestigious post behind and took a new job with the fast - growing little company.

Huff Stevens concurs: «Quantitative studies have, until very recently, shown little evidence of fundamental changes in empirical job security.»

Powell in statements throughout the year, culminating with his recent Senate confirmation hearing, has been clear he sees little risk of inflation that would prompt the Fed to raise rates faster than expected, and takes weak wage growth as a sign that sidelined workers remain to be drawn into jobs.

Imagine you're thinking of leaving your job to open a business and decide to do a little research into franchising.

Some of my extra jobs were fun little ways to earn a few dollars — like mystery shopping.

They and a few others promise to dominate applications of artificial intelligence while paying little heed to the job - killing ramifications of the new technology.

Offering severance does two things: First, it allows your employee to have a little bit of money to help them while they find a new job.

Unless you score a great job right out of school, you might need a little more flexibility, which is where the income - driven repayment plans come in.

Wage growth has been scarcely better, particularly as more workers become contractors in the so - called gig economy, which offers little by way of job security, benefits, and pay.

Which leaves the Conservatives with little ammunition to defend themselves when bad economic news — like the loss of nearly 46,000 jobs in December — presents itself.

One Occupy rally I stumbled across here in Toronto featured speakers from a big trade union, members of which enjoy jobs that pay relatively well, and a representative of one of Canada's aboriginal groups, whose complaints are legitimate but have little to do with having been left behind by capitalism.

And who wouldn't like to serve a huge market connecting millions of customers having urgent technical needs, limited alternatives, and little concern about price with millions of highly skilled professionals who would love to be their own bosses, fill their days with challenging and diverse problems instead of bullshit make - work jobs, and have countless opportunities served up to them on a regular basis which they can pick and choose as they wish.

And hey, a little basic practice along these lines might just be enough to improve your speaking voice ahead of a job interview or presentation.

Everyone wants to be more global, to infuse ethics and integrity into the curriculum, to teach students to be more entrepreneurial and innovative, and to put more of a challenge into MBA programs that, at some places, have become little more than a two - year search for a better job.

«Women have little recourse but to keep silent out of fears of job loss or impairing their careers,» she says.

Many cities have been skeptical of the industry, which they see as generating few jobs and little street life.

Many of the environmentalists who responded angrily to Steiner beseech readers to, as the Minneapolis non-profit wrote, «think about «profits» a little more broadly» to include the job creation and environmental benefits that recycling brings.

Uber uses technology to displace low - skilled workers who may have little access to other jobs, and as a result makes labor (and ultimately the cost of a ride) cheaper.

It's been a little more than a year since Rule 506 (c) of the U.S. Securities Act (implemented pursuant to Title II of the U.S. JOBS Act) became effective.

Pete and his wife Trudy do a nice job of blending into the WASP - y habitat (though perhaps they are a little too comfortable), but Pete's efforts to butter up Don and Roger are mostly fruitless, and he is dejected.

«Pausing to take a little bit of time to reflect on those contributions that we make every day even once a week is enough to strengthen our ability to focus and to invest effort in what otherwise might be a difficult and stressful job.»

When the expectation from the top down is that people's personal or family lives have to be sacrificed for the job as evidenced by 50 - hour - plus workweeks, little or no vacation time, and 24/7 availability for work communication, you've reached the height of a toxic workplace.

«The evidence that I have seen is that jobs are in fact increased because there is economic activity increased and because people have a little bit of spare money, which on $ 11 an hour you never have.»

So it was more than a little surprising that one of Apple's top brand managers, Bozoma Saint John, jumped ship and took then job of chief brand officer at Uber.

Will Reynolds, CEO of SEER Interactive (# 25), left his job at a large firm because his boss would not allow him to leave work a little early to volunteer at a local hospital.

That's a lot of jobs for one little taco.

This little piece of plastic did its job well when serving the beer cold, but when served warm, the beer exploded everywhere after the can was cracked open.

From an early age, Asquith, who was born in Sussex but has spent most of his life in London, has been saving his money, starting with «hoarding cash and doing little jobs where I could» such as washing neighbourhood cars at age 12 to asking for money instead of presents at birthdays and Christmas.

If a co-worker or employee is happy at his or her job, they will go out of their way to add a little extra to their commitment.

With Wright now gone, Harper has handed the thorny implementation of the Canada Job Grant to Jason Kenney, a loyal follower, but there's little doubt the strategy flowed from the Prime Minster's Office.

But after a little bit of instruction in the ins and outs of Google Docs and Skype, some hand wringing about cultural fit and eight months on the job, she's thriving.

The Beefeater - whose job it is to guard the Tower of London - continues and says: «He's a soldier, he serves his country, he deserves to be treated with a little respect.

He found a job in Los Angeles, a complete opposite of what I had been used to in San Francisco, and my little freelancing - self rejoiced.

Sixteen people compete in silly weekly tasks that have little to do with the work of a business executive for the «dream job of a lifetime.»

She notes that many analysts feel overwhelmed because «they often were not really sure what their jobs were, and they felt that they had very little understanding of what other people in the organization do.»

While not contending with these headline - grabbing controversies, Clement has also quietly been pushing forward with initiatives with major implications across a host of sectors «One of the nice things about politics is you get to engage in a little bit of self - definition as to what your job is,» says Clement.

But machine tool orders drop, the Aruoba - Diebold - Scotti Business Conditions Index continues to show worse - than - average conditions, and there were still 3.8 million job openings on the last business day of April (little changed from 3.9 million in March).

On May 6, 2010, according to the authorities, it worked a little too well: Sarao did such a good job of driving down the price of the E-mini future that he caused a flash crash in which «investors saw nearly $ 1 trillion of value erased from U.S. stocks in just minutes.»

From interest groups to job listings and everything in between, with a little effort you can use LinkedIn to tap into a variety of business leads and opportunities.

According to the Fast Company article, «Study Finds Work - Life Balance Could Be a Matter of Life and Death,» researchers from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business found that people who work in highly stressful jobs with little to no control over their work life were 15.4 % more likely to die sooner.