Sentences with phrase «of making a living at»

«Even the dream of making a living at your creative work, or simply reaching a professional level — what those in the field call Pro- C (and the...

This announcement gave many self - publishing authors real hope of making a living at their craft — selling enough e-books to make a living with a $ 2.05 royalty (about what most $ 2.99 e-books end up with after a small, size - based fee Amazon deducts) is much more likely than with a $ 0.35 royalty (35 % of $ 0.99).

But those of us who write with the intention of making a living at it would do well to thoroughly understand all aspects of book authoring and income.

«Authors who hope to make a living at this, are on the verge of making a living at this, or who already are making a living at this,» he says, «are very keen for as much data as possible.

After not ignoring what I am so passionate about, but instead trying to figure out some weird version of making a living at it.

Not exact matches

At Ruby, success and growth are sustained by finding the right team members to deliver on our mission of creating personal connections and making a difference in the lives of others.

«I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main characters of our lives,» Dias said at Forbes» Women Summit in New York City last year.

At the end of the day, most of the rhetoric and some of the efforts around small business owners seem more about administrative game - playing instead of providing help and assistance to small business owners to make their lives easier and their businesses more successful.

Giving employees a day at home allows them to better integrate their home and work lives — for example, they might be able to put their young children to bed due to the lack of an evening commute — and will make them grateful.

Make sure you have a savings account that has at least six months worth of income to subsidize any unexpected event that could happen in your life.»

At the end of the day, I have more appreciation for being able to make an impact on someone's life than I have for helping to liberate Iraq in one war.

A grateful nation gives its warriors at least a bit of help making the transition from military life to launching their own businesses.

The reason at the end of the day, that we feel such pain, is so that we can make improvements in our life.

For example, just by building an emergency fund with at least 30 days of living expenses in it will make most of these problems go away.

If one member of the household makes a good enough living, a cost - benefit analysis will often conclude that it makes economic sense for the second earner to stay at home or work part - time.

While it is key to be aware of the new changes made by the CRA, it equally important for Canadians to look at changes in their own life, and what that means for their taxes, she added.

«There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love.

Harkins, CEO of Convergence Corp., a 12 - person wireless - communications - technology company in Atlanta, had no trouble locating the right contacts at Intel since they all stemmed from personal relationships Harkins and his staff had made in past employment lives.

To make sure employees are thinking about the long term when they refer prospects, Brett Brewster of Mitec Controls, a $ 5.5 - million fire - and life - safety company in Norcross, Ga., spreads the bonus payments out: the employee gets half at the referral's 90 - day mark and the rest when the referral has been working for six months.

At heart, it's about finding reasonable limits on the pursuit of profit, or, more personally, on how we go about making a living.

At one of Jon Levy's house parties you could find yourself, as we recently did, making fajitas with Grammy - nominated singer - songwriter Regina Spektor and leading snake venom expert Zoltan Takacs before watching live presentations from Bill Nye the Science Guy and break - dancing pioneer Richard «Crazy Legs» Colón.

The researchers at the University of Essex found that girls whose «main parent» — that's usually the mother — consistently displayed high parental expectations were far less likely to fall into the traps that made the girls less likely to succeed in life.

The feedback loop of the city making itself attractive to start - ups and start - ups helping to make the city attractive to talented young people (who in turn create more businesses that attract more young people) is only getting started, but Robinson says he can already see the effects both in terms of the area's legitimacy — «people are saying, «hey, I would actually invest here or I would start my business here» as opposed to 10 years ago where people would avoid the city at all costs» — and quality of life for young people.

Giving your word about things like a short timetable to profits and consistently devoting time to the family will soothe some of their fears and make your life easier — at first.

While a lot has changed in the business world over the past several decades, the fundamentals of building a strong business have not, Branson notes: «The principles are the same and still fit what I am good at: finding markets that need shaking up, coming up with ways to make people's lives better, then finding brilliant people to bring it to life.

Researcher Richard Wiseman, a professor at the University of Hertfordshire, has studied and written extensively about good fortune and says it's not chance at all, but a certain way of living that makes some people more serendipitous than others.

We need to take a fresh look at what's really going to matter and make a difference in the lives of this year's graduates.

«Not making the baseball team at West Point,» Eisenhower later said, «was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.»

He does what is vital for living with zest and vigor: he gets at observation of what happens, learns from it, makes adjustments and moves on.

If you're in a similar situation — in life, at work, or as part of a company marketing campaign — the best strategy is to own up to the mistake, apologize, and then get to work on how to make sure it never happens again.

However, this comes at a cost with 50 percent of expats saying their work - life balance declined after making the move.

This makes for more meaningful conversations and ensures that I'm likely to meet the right people at the right time for the betterment of my business and life.

But, since that study looked only at people who'd already made it into ripe old age, it's tough to say whether or not the study participants developed these characteristics as a result of old age or if the traits helped them to live as long as they had.

To break down this new barrier to communication, make face - to - face communications part of everyday life at your office.

At McCann back in 2006, Edwards helped make the influential «Mad World» spot for Gears of War, which sold 2 million copies in six weeks, reportedly increased Xbox Live subscription by 50 % in that time, and made the song «Mad World» the top seller on iTunes.

Like Steve Jobs (who was so insistent that employees bump into one another that he placed Pixar's single bathroom at the center of the building), Pogue recommends motivating people to leave their normal workspaces by making life a little less convenient.

You've probably called someone you know a psychopath in passing at some point in your life, either in jest as an acknowledgment of a strange behavior, or as a fleeting response to a decision that made you angry.

While Musk is clearly smart enough to have considered all this already (or at least to pay someone else to consider it), Maynard ends with a word of caution for the SpaceX team: «If enough people feel SpaceX is threatening what they value (such as the environment — here or there), or disadvantaging them in some way (for example, by allowing rich people to move to another planet and abandoning the rest of us here), they'll make life difficult for the company.»

Santorum made his original remarks over the weekend while roughly two million people at hundreds of «March for Our Lives» events across the US rallied against gun violence in America.

If you live your life at Starbucks and move through an Uberized economy where an extra buck or two (for access, speed or convenience) is a drop in the bucket, it's hard to imagine the daily struggles of millions of moms trying to make ends meet.

(That's why so many of us stink at remembering names and why making associations like «Mary from Alaska where my cousin lives») hugely improves retention.)

«We are a very fun company, but at the end of the day we all know our part in the mission» — making drugs for life - threatening illnesses.

As you transition out of the carefree days of your 20s and start making major life changes — whether it's getting married, buying a house, or having kids — it's crucial to take a big - picture look at your finances.

She is the author of Make Waves: Be the One to Start Change at Work and in Life.

ST. LOUIS - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard makes a presentation on «Living Standards across U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas» at the Washington University's Calhoun Lecture Series - 1300 GMT.

The Bishops (eBay user ID: harley1983), who live in Chadwick, Missouri, make arrangements to transport each piece of equipment themselves, arranging a date with the buyer at the time of sale.

With aging boomers making up the majority of its most loyal customers, the coffee chain is keen on drawing in younger consumers, says Doug Hunter, author of Double Double: How Tim Hortons Became a Canadian Way of Life, One Cup at a Time.

I'm at a point in my life where «wedding season» is about to become a very real thing, and I wanted something fun that would make me feel like the life of the party, even when awkwardly sitting to the side of the dance floor.

These motion - tracking sensors will give a person «a stronger sense of being transported» to a virtual environment because they will presumably make it easier for people to move around and look at things in digital worlds like they do in real life.

Start being grateful: feeling grateful is one of the most medicinal emotions we can feel it elevates your mood and it fills you with happiness, if we are going to be successful at this thing called, life, we have to start being grateful for the things that happen in our live, no matter how good or bad each of us has it, you have to make to start making it a practice to be grateful for your life.