Sentences with phrase «of paid gigs»

Not only are most of these paid gigs, I have already parlayed them into free accommodations, free meals, and free tours & attractions, just as advertised.

Hinton's gorgeous travel photography has earned him more than 150,000 followers on Instagram — a follower count that has helped land him a variety of paid gigs while on the road.

Not exact matches

Just like an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you'll face as a recent college grad starting out as a freelancer is landing your first paying gigs.

Like many post-recession pros, I rotate through freelance and contract gigs to earn dough, which made me give serious side - eye to a recent Glassdoor study finding that 89 % of 18 - to 34 - year - olds would prefer more perks to a pay raise.

As a result, many new grads still find themselves side - hustling to pay rent, hoping that they'll be part of the 25 percent that lands a full - time gig post-internship.

Some of that income is from paid speaking gigs such as keynotes and breakout sessions, and some comes from people purchasing my DIY PR course after they watch me speak.

Yet much of the fastest job creation in the gig economy is coming at the highly skilled, highly paid end of the marketplace, where physicians, lawyers, programmers, and other professionals sell their services on new marketplaces like UpCounsel, Doctor on Demand, and Upwork.

Job - hunting site Glassdoor calculated the best gigs in places where pay goes furthest, based on salaries and the cost of living.

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.

Close to half of the 3,400 members of the National Speakers Association — all of whom book at least 20 paid gigs a year — earn their livelihoods from presentations that are at least partly motivational.

Each listing includes the item (s) to be delivered, the number of miles from point A to point B, and the price to be paid, explains David Hater, a 50 - year - old retired Army officer who's delivered more than 400 gigs for Roadie, earning anywhere from $ 8 for a local delivery to $ 400 for «delivering a few extra boxes and making a stop or two along the way» on interstate trips.

He notes that Apple entered the market with 16, 32 and 64 - gigabyte laptops «If they only offered the 16 gigabyte, they would have sold a lot but would have missed out on the 64 gig customer willing to pay more to buy the best of the best.

But the few lower - paying projects I wouldn't have considered when I was only looking at the money part of the equation had their own payoff: Those projects directly led to more lucrative connections and gigs later.

If you want the high salary, a month of PTO, and full paid health insurance, perhaps the start - up gig isn't for you.

For example, while a number of communities are debating how to provide benefits to gig economy workers, without policies that ensure a baseline wage threshold or that grant workers a voice in determining their wages and benefits, low - road companies could respond to requirements to contribute to benefits with commensurate decreases in pay.

Select gigs from our list of writing, design, video production and coding jobs and get paid ASAP.

As a point of reference, the estimated pay for one of these typical gig jobs, Uber driver, amounts to $ 3.37 / hr after expenses.

Spectrum Mobile users will also have the option of paying by the gig, with Charter charging users $ 12 per each gigabyte consumed (again mirroring Comcast's Xfinity Wireless service).

Formerly, Freelance Writing Gigs, is a curated list of paid freelance writing jobs, including blogging jobs, content creation jobs, copywriting jobs, editing jobs and more.

The Gecko Investor Group (GIG) is a closed group of paying subscribers that will from time to time get access to private placements (PP's) in Canadian junior companies, just like the ones mentioned above.

I have fortunately gotten offers to work at a startup and in several different contexts similar to my previous position — and these are things I would potentially enjoy, yes, but to waste the potential equity that «personal brand», dirty as it may sound, creates for me (or anyone else) to leverage into client work that pays well and speaking gigs that open up other opportunities — would be a true «lighting on fire» of that which I had done to build that before quitting.

I was eventually laid - off to due to «lack of funds» (which I have in writing) it seemed as though people in our congregation began fleeing contemporary church and we couldn't pay me and the Lead Pastor (who sat in his office day in, day out)... I won't settle for another stagnant «building - pastor» gig, I promise.

Some practical points: If you're just starting out, some opportunities that make a lot of sense for platform - building include: writing guest posts for popular bloggers who share a similar audience, writing a regular column for a newspaper or online magazine, seeking out speaking gigs (paid or unpaid), participating in conferences (for networking opportunities as well as exposure to new, inspiring ideas), using social media to share your message, and requesting interviews with popular authors / speakers / leaders to feature on your blog.

The damage wrought by the PSUs, Baylors, and MSUs is so enormous, so incomprehensibly reprehensible, that the frameworks of «well they paid a fine and lost some scholarships» or «some of the admins went to jail» or «the head coach was fire and laid low for a few years before getting another gig» falls laughably, horrifically short.

We don't know yet whether he was paid for the Antwerp gig, but the Register of Members» Interests this week revealed he was paid # 52,000 for a speech at Davos last month and # 40,000 for another speech to a City audience, taking his total second - job earnings to # 720,000 since Theresa May sacked him last year.

The chancellor's desire for work that is «good quality and well - paid» echoes the recent Taylor review of the gig economy, which argued that full employment was not incompatible with all work being good work, and it was good to hear repeated focus on the nature of work, rather than just the employment statistics.

NYC spent nearly $ 25 million last year paying teachers who were removed from permanent classroom gigs because of alleged misconduct or incompetence, new Education Department figures show.

«Anything that makes it easier for gig economy workers to determine their true status and pay tax and NICs accordingly — and for the engagers of their labour to pay employers» NICs wherever appropriate — is to be welcomed.

Former House Speaker John Boehner has parlayed a bad habit into a paying gig: The smoker is joining the board of tobacco company Reynolds American Inc..

Much of what those returns revealed basically fleshed out stuff we knew thanks to his financial disclosure report: That CNN gig was pretty darned lucrative (it's paid him $ 1 million since it was canceled); Spitzer and his wife Silda, who filed jointly, still made most of their money from his family's real estate holdings ($ 2.5 million last year); and the family is paying him a $ 180,00 salary to run its business.

Only a handful of council members, whose jobs are considered part - time, currently earn substantial pay in other gigs.

Walzak is taking a leave of absence from his City Hall gig, and will be paid solely by the campaign during his stint.

He would have serious difficulty getting a real, well - paying job given his history, so he needs to stay at the top of the anti-vax heap to keep getting decent speaker's fees, book sales, and possibly paid gigs at various anti-vax orgs.

A couple months later, when a friend invited her to visit Los Angeles for a weekend, she met a number of local musicians who convinced her she could get paying gigs in California.

Part of your final conversation around starting a new teaching gig should include, in writing, how you will be paid and if you need to fill out any paperwork.

Okay, so, Spray Paint clear off stage, and I'm standing there talking to this guy who just moved here from San Francisco about what a waste of time and space my life has become and how friggin» Protomartyr's publicist wouldn't give me clearance to bring my Sony to the gig to get some glorious 24 mp shots of the band even though I'd already paid for my tix and everything when this dude about four to six inches shorter than me with a high forehead, pale blue eyes, sportin» a gray dress jacket carrying a beer and smokin» a cig brushes across me and everyone else standing along the railing keeping the whole 100 people or so jammed into the club from plummeting 30 feet into Waller Creek.

Youre too picky is just one part of it on to pay thousands of gigs never let me down from 2014.

Before heading off into the long weekend, don't miss these five gigs, including a week - long promotional gig that will pay upwards of $ 2,000, an M. Night Shyamalan movie, and more.

«Shadow Complex wasn't a huge paying gig for me but I took it because I thought the developers were a nice couple of kids, and I found the story of a reluctant warrior being forced to find something worth fighting for to be a compelling narrative.

In the feature, Donaldson effectively compares and contrasts the career trajectories for Mimi Leder, who made her name through her Emmy - winning work on «ER,» directed the one of the top - grossing films of 1998 with «Deep Impact» and then went to «movie jail» and didn't direct another film for nine years after the middling performance of her 2000 family drama «Pay It Forward,» to those of Trevorrow, who made his feature debut with the Sundance hit «Safety Not Guaranteed,» won the choice gig helming «Jurassic World» on director Brad Bird's recommendation and managed steer to the reboot of one of the most popular film franchises of all time to giant box - office success.

A medieval fantasy show that takes place at «the dividing line between the civilized human world and the unknown terrors of the outer savage kingdoms,» this paid gig rehearses in August and shoots in the fall in Utah.

Humans tend to the gardens, assisted by robot drones, although most of the men see it just as a paying gig to perform until the company asks them to come home.

There's no real reason for any of them to be there, except that voice acting gigs are easy and tend to pay well.

Remember, he did a polish on «Kung Fu Panda 2» a couple years back and frankly, it's the kind of gig that likely pays well and can help keep his other projects brewing.

But this is simply one of many gigs that pays him.

He had recently left part - time, clearly temporary gigs at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and SnagFilms («They're paying me to learn about VOD,» he said gleefully about the latter) to head the San Francisco Film Society, as close as he could possibly come to his dream of running a repertory theater somewhere outside New York that would become a destination for people like himself who could never get enough of the movies.

BHSFX has accepted collaborative projects and paid gigs that run the gamut from costuming for the high school's production of Godzilla Meets Las Vegas to dozens of hand - carved tiki masks for a local restaurant's patio decor.

Notably, Lee and Fairbank are both former Colorado state legislators who took the revolving door out of public service into well - paid gigs, like peddling what K12 is selling to legislatures across the country.

That's of course if buyers embrace paying $ 20 or so per month on top of their cell plans for extra gigs; you'd want to map out which apps are accessed by the car while still minding the data cap.

Most of the gigs on Fiverr will start at $ 15 and limit your book to a certain number of pages and images so you'll have to pay extra for a regular - size book.