Sentences with phrase «of years of my career»

Kelly, however, initially refused to play in Buffalo, instead signing and spending the first couple of years of his career with the Houston Gamblers in the upstart USFL, where he had tremendous success.

An amazing leader and the very first female CEO of the 100 + year old company, where I spent 18 of years of my career.

«It's been a big struggle the last couple of years of my career since the economy tightened up and a number of drivers were left in the cold.

Not exact matches

Recently, McRaven gave a speech at West Point about the top lessons of his 36 - year military career.

«All else equal, a man who is 25 pounds below average weight is predicted to earn $ 210,925 less across a 25 - year career than a man who is of average weight,» Judge and Cable point out.

He has had a notable media career outside of football as well, serving as an NFL analyst for CBS for several years and even starring in the Jim Carrey comedy «Ace Ventura Pet Detective.»

After a successful 32 - year investment banking career, Bill Henson, a decade ago, made the transition to inner city education, initially joining the board of Cristo Rey New York High School, a private Catholic college preparatory high school that educates children of all faiths.

Whereas I imagine most of my peers clicked through their six - question survey like a fire - and - forget missile, I kicked things up a notch, making a simple spreadsheet to log my results, and committing to doing the same simple exercise, year in and year out, for the rest of my career.

She's still building name recognition outside the world of tech and, with one House run behind her (she lost), the 40 - year - old has time to continue building her political career.

In fact, according to that study, a person who is 6 feet tall would be predicted to earn nearly $ 166,000 more over the course of a 30 - year career than someone who clocks in at 5 feet 5 inches.

When Joseph Kruger II, CEO and chairman of the family's eponymous company, Kruger Inc., was awarded Quebec's Medal of the National Assembly last year, Quebec Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Pierre Arcand praised Kruger's career as an «entrepreneur.»

-- Shannon O'Brien, ranked number one career coach and number one life coach in Boston on Yelp and founder of Whole U, a career and life strategy consultancy she started after seven years working and studying at Harvard and MIT

Unlike many subordinates, he didn't owe his career to RIM, and happened to be 13 years older than Lazaridis, giving him the confidence to tell the founder of the company that he was wrong.

Add those reasons to the long, frequently cited list of why women lose confidence in their careers: They make, on average, $ 8,000 less per year than their male counterparts; they aren't afforded the same opportunities for advancement; they're penalized for having kids.

The economists who did the research for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York concluded that average workers see most of their earnings grow during the first 10 years of their career and begin to stagnate after age 35.

The 48 - year - old native of Sacramento, California, a mother of two with a business degree and a 20 - plus - year career in the health - care field, recently found a way into the biker life.

In addition to her entertainment career, Beyoncé founded ready - to - wear fashion line House of Deréon in 2004 in partnership with her mother, Tina Knowles; eight years later, she launched shop.beyonce.com, an online marketplace for branded apparel and accessories.

Changing jobs every couple of years is the new norm and it might even benefit your career.

Stephanie Oh fought for a few years in her early 20s to break into the music industry in New York City, but last year grew disenchanted with her stagnant career in administration of music - talent management firm.

Eight years ago, Adam Lowry and Neil Renninger were sitting in a bar, discussing the conference they had just attended, when both admitted they were jealous of each other's careers.

She's credited with launching the careers of stars like Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, and Seth Meyers, and each year sends about 15 performers to audition for NBC's Saturday Night Live.

Over her 16 - year career at Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment she's risen through the ranks, working on dozens of marketing campaigns for different franchises.

It's actually quite a relief to hear from someone with years of experience who has built a substantial, multi-decade career in a major industry at a global corporation (BP / Amoco) instead of a wet - behind - the - ears «expert» who's had about 15 minutes of startup success and no clue about how he or she got there, or what to do next.

The man now plucked to run the Bank of Japan and revive the long stagnant economy was a career Ministry of Finance bureaucrat at the time exasperated that the central bank had - as he saw it - shirked its duty to end what was then already six years of deflation.

About 30 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs spent the first few years of their careers developing a strong foundation in finance, according to a study by consulting firm Heidrick & Struggles.

Based on today's gap, the National Women's Law Center reports that the average women would lose $ 418,800 over the course of a 40 - year career.

For both Amanat and Tuzman, the conviction is a striking fall from power: The two defendants have made millions of dollars and led successful entrepreneurial careers that have all but unraveled over the course of the past year.

About eight years ago, I made a difficult decision: to end my career of public speaking.

Follow through on your relationship building plan and you will see benefits every year for the rest of your career.

But instead of simply closing down the Michelin - rated restaurant and retiring, like many would after a storied career like his, the 68 - year - old entrepreneur — and his business — are going on «sabbatical.»

In comparison, the online career market - which includes LinkedIn Corp and Monster Worldwide Inc - is worth about $ 6 billion a year, said Lisa Rowan of market research firm IDC.

So Parks, CEO of the Revere Group, a $ 33 million technology consulting firm in Chicago, has had in place what he calls a «career - pathing» program almost since he started the business, six years ago.

Gardner is the partner in charge of managing the firm, and distressed investing has been the focus of her professional career over the last 29 years.

Within two or three months of the, well, career change, Levitt said the woman was making more than $ 200,000 a year, working 15 hours a week.

«I have a technical degree as an engineer, but spent the first 20 years of my career driving revenue through sales and sales leadership roles,» Chris Cook, president and CEO of Delphix, shared with me.

If you're in the exhausting middle years of your life, squeezed between growing kids and a growing career, chances are good that getting out of bed early enough for self - care is a perpetual challenge.

In my 22 years of working for IBM, they let me take a variety of career paths.

With the exception of the first two, his words do not appear to cut cruel; indeed, one has a sense these are well - used lines he might employ in his other career: as a successful, in - demand motivational speaker, giving at least 30 speeches every year, here in Canada and around the world.

Los Angeles - based EHarmony plans to launch its recruitment service - Elevated Careers - in 2016, and expects the business to contribute about 60 percent of the company's revenue within three years.

Nike is essentially betting that James will stay scandal - free throughout the rest of his career, as well as have staying power in the many years of his life when he is no longer an active player.

Having spent much of his career developing housing for seniors, the 68 - year - old is building something different for his own retirement, a waterfront dream home on 10 acres.

Throughout his career, including his 16 - year tenure as president of Burger King, Clayton found himself embroiled in annual debates over merit raises.

If you want to bring home serious money — and you can withstand years of training and long, sometimes unpredictable hours — you may want to consider a medical career.

«Acknowledge how others have helped you in your career over the course of the year,» Kahn said.

The years I spent at home as well as in an alternative career gave me a unique set of skills that, when strategically packaged, enabled me to distinguish myself from my peers.

By far, the oddest thing about Donald Trump's 1995 tax returns, a portion of which was published by The New York Times on Saturday, is not the massive $ 916 million loss — some 9,385 times as large as what was taken by the average filer who claimed a similar loss — but this: 1995 was actually a very good year for Trump, perhaps one of the best of his career.

SHERYL - LEE Moroni has no regrets about her decision 21 years ago to step away from her career as a stenographer and move into the world of adult dance.

A lot of the work we're doing there has been planned five to 10 years in advance — the careers of professors and graduate students depend on us performing the procedure properly.

According to recent data from career site Comparably, there are a variety of positions that pay anywhere from $ 150,000 to $ 200,000 a year.

Not only did they begin their careers in a rough market and are thus several years behind, but their experience of job insecurity continues to inform their choices, he said.