Sentences with phrase «paying gig at»

He told me about playing their first paying gig at a bar in Five Points.

These aren't high paying gigs at all — sometimes you're paid only a nickel for each task.

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.

2000: wrote and performed poetry, based on positive audience reaction offered a paid gig at a cafe.

After writing about games as a pastime for years, he got his first shot at a paid gig at 1UP.

After writing about games as a pastime for years, he got his first shot at a paid gig at 1UP.

Not exact matches

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.

There are some better ways to get paid speaking gigs that don't involve you using your time and money on a strategy that's 50 percent at best.

You are taught that the way to paid speaking gigs starts with speaking at events for free to pad your speaker's resume.

Even if you don't receive an official income form for work you performed, you probably still need to let the IRS know about it: If your income (after expenses) from a side gig is at least $ 400, you are required to report it and pay taxes on it.

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.

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.

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.

Moreover, it just doesn't pay as well as office gyn and a regular gig at the hospital, so they go where they can make decent money.

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.

Industry would allow me to stay at the bench — at least for a while — but I figured that in taking an industrial gig (even though it paid more money), I probably would be closing off some options, which I wasn't quite ready to do.

Through a friend he got a peanut - paying freelance gig at a podunk newspaper in an overgrown farm town in Northern California, writing one review a week.

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.

After the band — lead singer Tiger (Callum Turner), guitarist Sam (Alia Shawkat), bassist Pat (Anton Yelchin) and drummer Reece (Jo Cole)-- are decidedly led astray by an aspiring punk radio host Tad, he offers them a legitimate, paying gig as recompense at a remote neo-Nazi bar.

People told me it was a big gig and I guess it was in the fact that the game was well known but I was getting paid in those days scale or a little bit above so I didn't make much off those cd - roms at all.

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.

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.

Let me tell you: these piddly little underpaid gigs will not pay the bills in retirement — and in times like ours, «retirement» is not a choice; it's the result of layoffs at an age where people can't get rehired in the job field where they have experience and have earned a decent wage.

Sure, compared to how most people have to pay their bills, being a «guru» is not a bad gig, not a bad gig at all.

At the same time, the idea of paying for a speaking gig is a bit offensive, especially when the host is already profiting from attendees.

You leave your project manager position at one firm and pick up a similar gig, maybe closer to home, with better benefits or pay.

I had decided to become a full - time mediator and give up my high - paying divorce lawyer gig at an established law firm.