Sentences with phrase «paying gigs for»

Yes, there were still some paying gigs for genre stories in super-competitive markets like Women's World, Asimov's and Ellery Queen.

«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.

Not exact matches

I was lucky enough to get a contract gig that kept me working until my due date, but by the time I delivered, I was jobless and therefore ineligible for any paid leave.

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

As a result, I would secretly disappear after the project was done and never talk to them again as I searched for gigs that would pay.

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.

In a finding that will be little surprise to high - schoolers looking for a part - time gig or college and university graduates seeking a first permanent position, StatsCan says young employees are most likely to be paid the minimum wage:

In the same way that singers are paid more for national campaigns than they are for local gigs, photographers will charge more depending on how the images are being used.

«We bootstrapped for the first two and half years, and we didn't actually pay ourselves anything,» says Austin, adding that the company's first employees were two interns who started with three - month gigs but then never left, even though GiveForward couldn't pay them until the year - and - a-half mark.

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.

Fiverr, an online freelance marketplace, crunched the numbers to determine which are the highest - paying gigs offered on its site, and it found that you could potentially make thousands for projects that are in high - demand.

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

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.

Pay your capital gains taxes while they are low, sign on for a consulting / writing gig / non-compete for 3 years @ $ 300k / yr = cake & eating it too.

Other gig jobs pay much less — Amazon's Mechanical Turk, for instance, where the typical pay runs under $ 1.35 / hr.

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

Sheâ $ ™ s also taken paid speaking gigs for insurance companies Manulife and Sun Life and then had their CEOs on the CBC to do further puffball interviews.

However, your focus on stellar, consistent content will open the door to paid opportunities such as advertising, affiliate marketing, speaking gigs, reviews, and writing for other publications.

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.

I'm not a plastic fan, I am into Arsenal so much that I will pay attention to things like the courts blocking Silent Stan from renting out our stadium during the season for gigs etc, how would that benefit Arsenal?

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.

Before I got this gig in Hawaii people in DC paid for a trip for my interview there, coming all the way from Fresno.

Know when it's time to branch out for better paying gigs.

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.

As the longtime advocate for health care workers union 1199 SEIU, her paying gig is persuading lawmakers to send as many billions as possible to the hospitals and nursing homes that employ 1199 members.

Three top staffers were paid for part - time teaching gigs.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

Submissions from Asheville, North Carolina are being accepted for the paid gig, and filming will take place throughout April and May.

Coogler never forgot that store, and when he got the directing gig for the new Marvel project, he and his wife paid it another visit.

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 botched suicide attempt, divorce, and failed Nobel Prize for Physics campaign later, he is now living downtown and offering chess lessons to kids, a gig that gives him far more aggravation than pay.

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

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

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.

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.

For those of us who want a more robust e-reader... if (say) 1/2 of the people are willing to spend another ~ $ 30 - 50 to upgrade the current configuration to 2 Gigs of RAM & a Bluetooth controller (e.g. to use an external keyboard), would Netronix allow that for those willing to pay the upgrade fFor those of us who want a more robust e-reader... if (say) 1/2 of the people are willing to spend another ~ $ 30 - 50 to upgrade the current configuration to 2 Gigs of RAM & a Bluetooth controller (e.g. to use an external keyboard), would Netronix allow that for those willing to pay the upgrade ffor those willing to pay the upgrade fee?

My first paid writing gig was reviewing back when I was in junior high — the Kansas City Star had a teen section and I did reviews on books, TV shows and films for several years there, as well as the occasional humor column.

I mostly tend to go to the ones within driving range, unless it's a Guest of Honor gig where they'll pay for transportation and hotel.

Most of these gigs won't pay very well, and you're unlikely to sell that many books for your efforts.

But that's just not the case; expect to pay $ 200 for an 8 gig unit and $ 250 16 gigs worth of storage.

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