Sentences with phrase «on boring job»

Most resumes are dry (so dry you need to drink a couple of glasses of water just to get through them) because they focus on boring job duties.

On their way to world domination, computers practised on boring jobs we were glad to give them, as a scan through March issues of New Scientist show

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Maybe it's that today's younger workers more commonly want to try out a series of jobs before settling on a single career trajectory, or that older workers have been at it long enough to be bored and jaded.

If growing unemployment was not enough, a decline in labor market participation was also on the rise, the ILO said, a warning borne out by the latest U.S. jobs data from December which showed that the labor force participation rate tumbled to 62.8 percent, its worst level since January 1978.

The idea of May 1 as a day for workers» rights was born in the US city of Chicago, where on May 1, 1886 hundreds of thousands of people walked off the job to protest long hours and harsh working conditions.

And in a bear market, those who have expensive toys they don't need will feel the weight of 1000 boulders on their shoulders because their jobs may be at risk.

**** this post contains a few spoilers for the new Anne series so stop reading if you don't want to know *** When our eldest daughter was born, I did a very poor job of pretending we were not settled on a...

When our eldest daughter was born, I did a very poor job of pretending we were not settled on a name.

If the head of some atheist coalition (I don't know what the appropriate job would be, but bear with me) became a devout Muslim, it would no longer make sense to have him on the board.

For the most part they are politically passive and seem worried, especially about jobs; they appear to be scared that perhaps they were born one generation too late to continue cashing in on the American Dream.

Those who responded as part of their job, on - or off - duty, and those who heroically responded because they felt they had a skill set they could bring to bear.

People still bear a burden of contempt from leaders and systems that reduce them to jobs to be done, votes to be cast, products to be bought or — let us be honest enough to add — data points on a rising line of worship attendance.

Job cried, «Let the day perish on which I was to be born.

The kind of broke when businesses and economies slump, dragging incomes down with them, when babies are born without insurance and ginormous hospital bills go unpaid for far too long and interest heaps on, when businesses die and new jobs can't be found, when mortgages can only be covered by the good grace of family members, and when food is bought on credit or gift cards from kind friends.

Later on, will one feel it was wise to have chosen a job which pays well but at the cost of being left bored or unhappy for most of the working week?

With the advent of the professional youthworker, there also came the danger that the church as a whole and parents of teens in particular would feel that they couldn't do the discipling job, that we needed people who watched the same films, wore the same clothes, could bear to listen to the same music, and could actually get as far as Level 2 on a computer game.

Mocking you lunatics has nothing to do with mocking God... I believe there is a God, I don't understand it, or pretend like I do, whether I'm right or wrong has no bearing on anyone else... but by no means to I believe he would destroy what was somehow created... only a complete idiot would quit their job and tour around the country warning of the Rapture... now go look yourself in the mirror and admit you're an nutjob... don't try guessing what God will, or won't do, just live your life and hope for the best...

Congrats on NYT front page, I have been folowing your blog for years, and love your city observations, and loved when your son was born, and following how cute he is, good job.

wenger is a legend in his own mind so other peoples opinions... fans, ex players, journalists, etc... have no bearing on his greatness or the righteousness of his own decisions... from end of last season it was clear we needed two quality attacking options to put up a serious challenge (getting rid of walcott and campbell or ox and bringing in a serious upgrade over giroud) instead he brought in another midfield option (having done the same in the winter window) which only makes sense in his own delusional world rather than the reality of facing up to serious and strengthening competitors and which defines the job at hand....

You have to stop looking at Henry as some God like being, he turned a coaching role down with Arsenal to carry on his (rather boring) punditry job with Sky, chasing the # # # s».

So how, by the name of great and mighty Pazuzu and all his screaming wind - demons, does the pummelling of Blackburn Rovers at the hands of Manchester City have any bearing on whether or not Steve Kean should keep his job?

The only semi-compelling argument behind teams testing for pot is itself a rationalization — that the testing is simply an «intelligence test» to see if the player will follow (or successfully skirt) an arbitrary rule that has no bearing whatsoever on their ability to do their job at a high level.

It shouldn't be surprising that the tallest living American - born man, 7» 8» George Bell, played college ball (at Biola University in California), made camp with the Clippers in 1988 and suited up for the Globetrotters before taking on his present job as a sheriff's deputy in Norfolk.

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He'd had such a rough start - my body hadn't done such a bang - up job of nurturing him internally, and he was born with the ominous label of «growth restricted» - so it was the least I could do to feed him liquid gold, as the books called it, from my breast once he was on the outside.

Because we were born to multi task in our sleep, our default communication style is one of collaboration and sharing, our natural characters are empowering and inspiring, we automatically see the best in everyone, we know how to operate on minimum sleep and maximum distraction and still get the job done, and we have creativity and vision coming out of our pores.

Later, when our second son was born, I worked part time a few days a week, relying on the help of the lovely young woman, a former nanny who lived in our rental until and watched the boys in exchange for reduced rent while she went to school to become a hair stylist, until I got a job that I could do at home, as the editor of a kids» newspaper.

Toronto Star, April 27, 2009 Bear Bottoms up: Couple takes baby steps developing a cloth diaper business but the downturn has put their franchising dreams on hold by Anna Piekarski» It is a dirty job — and Jill and Mike Lawrence wish more people could do it.

Adding on to my last post... He has too many toys and seems to love getting them all out and not even play with them.He loves jigsaw puzzles and often does his favourite ones over and over again, but now tells me they are boring now.He seems to be looking for things to do all the time, and i have to keep giving him little jobs to do, otherwise he says he is bored.He has friends he plays with in the neighbourhood, he loves to ride his bike or scooter, but his friends don't play all the time.

Great job, but have you thought about who will take on the role of capturing those first precious moments after your little one is born?

You Were Born on Your Very First Birthday, by Linda Walvoord Girard, does a good job of explaining birth without going into too much detail, which my 4 - year - old is not ready for yet.

our second was born at the end of the summer, so we spent that summer doing lots of fun things with number one... now with number four on the way and an already packed summer it's about finding time to do the jobs I need to do before baby comes!

While it may seem like matching a candidate to the demographics of the district is the right thing to do, this race proves that ethnicity has no bearing on electability — or maybe Jung's communication staff wasn't doing their job, either way, he lost.

Almost half (47 per cent) accept the flip side of the coin, that marital infidelity «has no bearing» on a politician's job.

We set out to test the specific notion of whether «a politician is faithful to their husband or wife has no bearing on their job as a politician», or that «if a politician is unfaithful to their husband or wife it does affect their job, as it shows they can not keep their word».

A commission spokesman said O'Connor's resignation has no bearing on their pursuit of civil charges alleging he violated state law by providing a «no - show» job to the daughter of former state Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno.

The Labour leader needs to remind himself of this fact and also bear in mind that he can't afford to lose his bloc of ex-Lib Dem voters, who have ensured his party has had a poll lead since 2010 and who won't be keen on an opposition that brings back the nasty «British jobs for British workers» rhetoric of the New Labour days.

Milwaukee has tweaked its rules for city contractors to bar offensive conduct after a company's employees were caught carrying guns and a cooler bearing a Klu Klux Klan sticker on the job.

We have therefore agreed that there will need to be: - a significantly accelerated reduction in the structural deficit over the course of a Parliament, with the main burden of deficit reduction borne by reduced spending rather than increased taxes; - arrangements that will protect those on low incomes from the effect of public sector pay constraint and other spending constraints; and - protection of jobs by stopping Labour's proposed jobs tax.

Belfast - born Gareth was educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and quit his job as a stockbroker on his selection to move to Kendal and campaign full - time.

So the next time you hear someone say, «You can't raise taxes on the rich in New York, they already pay too much and they'll just move to Texas or Florida; it's just common sense», you should say, «Yes we can raise taxes on the richest New Yorkers, all of the data over many years and many studies has shown definitively that they aren't going anywhere, so you can stick your common sense in a hot, humid, boring low - tax state with low - wage jobs.»

All the productive sectors are referred to as economic sector, and they will be a major bloc as a subcommittee of parliament, and they coordinate the activities of the economic sectors of his cabinet, as it may be, and he wanted me to bring my experience as a [former] minister of finance, as somebody who has done a similar job in Uganda, as somebody who has done a similar job in Liberia, to bear on his government; so I'm playing a coordinated role for the economic sector as it were.»

Their job will be to survey for cells that might collect on fine filters sent down the bore hole.

This was borne out in the questionnaire, which found that although job - location restrictions due to home - life commitments had an important impact on the careers of both male and female astronomers, the issue was of greater concern to women.

You should bear in mind that employer needs do vary, so use your discretion and talk to other people before starting a personal development programme based on just one job description.

He quoted statistics from the American Enterprise Institute claiming that that each foreign worker who receives a U.S. STEM education creates on average 2.6 jobs, and that foreign - born professionals are 30 % more likely to start a business in the United States than are native - born professionals.

In order to track and observe the bears, we realized that we would have to put radio collars on them — a job that requires the skills of a hunter, a veterinarian, and a biologist.

In a memo, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue noted that staff who conduct epidemiological investigations of food - borne disease outbreaks will stay on the job, as will those who respond to pest outbreaks and care for laboratory animals and «critical research infrastructure.»

Whoever you are, whatever you do, your job is almost certainly boring as hell compared with the researchers who spent the last six weeks diving beneath Antarctica's sea ice to study alien life forms on the ocean floor.

I was lucky since my baby was born cause I got the help from my mom to take care of him while I was at work (I work from 7 am to 4:45 pm, on a desk job) and she also helped me out with other few things like preparing the bottles for the day, and keeping him safe until I came back from the gym.