Sentences with phrase «of menial jobs»

When Fox's subversive paintings and sculptures first got noticed, in the 1990s, Bhabha didn't have gallery representation; through the years, they each held a string of menial jobs.

Even kids that initially choose not to go to school of some kind my change their mind after holding a number of menial jobs for a while.

Leaving his studies, he takes on a variety of menial jobs while Pingping works for a wealthy widow as a cook and housekeeper.

Larry (Schwartzman) is a small - town schlub who drinks his way into and out of menial jobs he can't stand.

«You learn more in waitressing than you can in any other job, and I had every kind of menial job you can imagine,» the self - made millionaire tells CNBC Make It.

«You learn more in waitressing than you can in any other job, and I had every kind of menial job you can imagine,» Corcoran said in conversation with Farnoosh Torabi.

«You learn more in waitressing than you can in any other job, and I had every kind of menial job you can imagine,» Corcoran tells Torabi.

Not exact matches

Break down traditional hierarchies and cliques by training workers to do a number of jobs, from the menial to the challenging.

While well - paying, career jobs in industry and large corporations decline, the number of low - paying menial jobs and part - time jobs increases, so that almost anyone with the capacity to work can find something.

These new developments compel the attention of the American religious community, for they are now affecting millions of workers, their families and their communities in the form of massive plant closures, huge movements of industrial capital overseas and a downshifting of the work force into lower - paying and more menial jobs — when such jobs can be found.

Two - thirds of the students supported themselves wholly or in part by working at the menial jobs traditionally available.

I know of hourly workers performing menial jobs who make significantly more than my teaching parent has ever made in her career.

So they are shackled to the dirt, hoping NGOs will pay them to do menial jobs at a fraction of the rate they might pay a Kenyan.

How did we lose some of these opportunities, which has forced our youth to abandon school in search of better lives through menial jobs?

They live in the streets and in open places whiles engaging in menial jobs such as carrying of heavy loads on their heads.

They include the tolls charged head porters locally known as «Kayayei» who move from the north to the south of Ghana to engage in several menial jobs.

Einstein was so far ahead of his time, so out of step with his colleagues, that he had to take a menial job at the Swiss patent office while he hammered away at the mysteries of E = mc2.

At that time Verwoerd was minister of education in the Nationalist government and his view was that as blacks were never going to be allowed to compete economically with whites, their education need fit them only for menial jobs.

To thwart this blatant act of democracy, Merrick changes his name and takes a menial job at the store, the better to catch the union activists without detection.

He's constantly late for his menial job at a local grocery store, and even when he does arrive on time, he can't seem to lock the doors on the delivery truck, causing hundreds of dollars of fish to fall out the back.

PLOT: Aidan Bloom (Zach Braff) is a struggling actor trying to juggle the responsibilities of fatherhood with the pursuit of his acting dreams of glory - while his patient wife (Kate Hudson) supports the family working at a menial data entry job.

They work menial jobs in the daytime and look forward to their nightly performances before a fairly large group of mostly young people — who are supportive of the six comics called The Commune.

Some of the routines in which Ted is badgered, bullied, and exploited by the guests seem directly inspired by The Bellboy and other Lewis comedies, but Lewis's consistent sense of solidarity with people in menial jobs is pointedly missing.

They take menial jobs just to pay the bills, while in their free time, they aren't involved in relationships that seem to be leading anywhere, and in general, they are in a complete state of limbo.

Years later, Ricki's aspirations have anticlimactically amounted to playing regular gigs of cover songs in a bar with her band, the Flash while balancing a menial cashier job during the day.

With little by way of academic credentials, she struggles with menial jobs to be able to provide food for her daughter and pay rent to her motel's manager Bobby (Willem Dafoe).

He takes a seemingly menial job as a janitor in the laboratory of an astronomer (Allison Janney).

As outsourcing menial jobs to foreign countries becomes more popular it should come as no surprise that outsourcing the care of the elderly should follow.

On the other hand, Maggie has only had a series of menial labor and retail jobs, which she couldn't keep.

Like his creator, Chinaski swings through a wide variety of low - paying, non-creative, menial jobs (working at a bike shop, a pickle factory, as an ice deliveryman and janitor) and a smaller handful of codependent, quasi-abusive monogamous relationships (embodied here by Marisa Tomei as a fling, and Lili Taylor as on - again / off - again girlfriend Janet).

Efron's Teddy is still on the journey of growing up, as his frat brothers have all progressed onto larger ambitions while Teddy bemoans having to wear a shirt to the menial job he still holds at Abercrombie and Fitch.

Barred from Earth and relegated to performing dangerous or menial jobs on off - world colonies, those replicants that defy the ban are hunted down and killed by «Blade Runners,» such as Ford's Deckard, who's drawn out of retirement for one last job.

Ryden is particularly lucky in that, while she might not be able to get a job in the field she wants, she can find the most menial, temporary work imaginable, with the added benefit of being able to quit at any given time.

Nikkei reported that Konami was assigning game developers to menial jobs if the company no longer saw those people as useful; that cameras had been installed to monitor employee movements; and that supervisors were closely tracking lunch breaks and publicly shaming employees who were out of the office for too long.

We have seen all too clearly the devastating cost of letting children enter adulthood unprepared, whether measured by the number of people in prison, on drugs, unemployed, under - employed, or working multiple menial jobs in the hopes of providing a better future for their own kids.

Nan and Pingping Wu have brought their young son to America, worked hard at menial jobs, opened a restaurant, bought and paid off a house in only a handful of rather unremarkable years.

Literary history is full of wonderful writers who worked regular jobs, often quite menial jobs, while they worked on their writing.

Working through the night to write a book while slaving away at a menial day job is an obligatory component of every romantic self - published success story.

In their elder forms, both ruminated over formative periods spent exploring the collections and libraries the institution had to offer, emphasizing the importance of finding a job — no matter how menial — that can allow for immersion in an environment that nurtures brimming interests.

It adds up to a rebuttal against «the predominance of material on African Americans as enslaved people or working in menial jobs or other stereotypical situations,» as Cornell's Katherine Reagan says — these images show African Americans asserting their normality and freedom after the distorting horrors of slavery.

However, despite attracting praise from the famous writer Emile Zola, and being an active member of the emerging Impressionist group, lack of money not infrequently forced him to take menial jobs painting postcards and decorating shop fronts.

The Balinese themselves see little financial gain from the millions of dollars that pass through this place except for very low pay for mostly menial jobs.

The grains are certified by the third - party global Participatory Guarantee Scheme (PGS)'s Organic India Council, and are being sold with overwhelming success - a far cry from the low - paying, menial jobs that many of these women once held.

I once worked a menial job where I had to dress up in a suit, and my good buddy liked to embarrass me, when we bopped into a shop for donuts and a coffee, by asking me, «What sort of donut would you like, Doctor Caleb?»

The ability both phones have to give menial jobs to low - power cores and demanding tasks to high - power cores means that everything should run that little bit smoother, so playing MMOs or online poker with will be as easy the game developers intended, even if you're running a number of other programs in the background.

Using a few modern workplace apps, you can easily eliminate a ton of red tape, automate menial tasks, and avoid silly mistakes on the job.

Instead of listing those menial job duties, try to find ways to word the information so it fits with your career aspirations.

For your first job out of college, you will find yourself doing things that may seem menial or beneath you.

Even the CEOs of major international companies had to begin in some menial job or other, earning a meagre wage so as to demonstrate their employability.

For those just setting off on their career journey, you can usually expect to be given the most menial of tasks at a new job.