Sentences with phrase «paying menial jobs»

While well - paying, career jobs in industry and large corporations decline, the number of low - paying menial jobs and part - time jobs increases, so that almost anyone with the capacity to work can find something.

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These new developments compel the attention of the American religious community, for they are now affecting millions of workers, their families and their communities in the form of massive plant closures, huge movements of industrial capital overseas and a downshifting of the work force into lower - paying and more menial jobs — when such jobs can be found.

So they are shackled to the dirt, hoping NGOs will pay them to do menial jobs at a fraction of the rate they might pay a Kenyan.

They say working in the sex industry avoids employment in menial and poorly paid jobs.

Unfortunately, the house has already sold to an ex-Iranian colonel, Massoud Amir Berhani (Kingsley), who sees a way to make four times the amount he paid on the house, and restore dignity and honor to his family by not having o struggle to make ends meet in menial jobs.

They take menial jobs just to pay the bills, while in their free time, they aren't involved in relationships that seem to be leading anywhere, and in general, they are in a complete state of limbo.

With little by way of academic credentials, she struggles with menial jobs to be able to provide food for her daughter and pay rent to her motel's manager Bobby (Willem Dafoe).

She has curiously left the university where she was studying literature for this menial job with unreliable pay that finds her living modestly in a dumpy room at the bus depot and washing her underwear in an outdoor sink.

Like his creator, Chinaski swings through a wide variety of low - paying, non-creative, menial jobs (working at a bike shop, a pickle factory, as an ice deliveryman and janitor) and a smaller handful of codependent, quasi-abusive monogamous relationships (embodied here by Marisa Tomei as a fling, and Lili Taylor as on - again / off - again girlfriend Janet).

Nan and Pingping Wu have brought their young son to America, worked hard at menial jobs, opened a restaurant, bought and paid off a house in only a handful of rather unremarkable years.

Her paintings feature hardworking, unglamorous figures whom she either knows or has sought out, wanting to document and pay tribute to their often - overlooked communities, and the sometimes menial jobs they hold.

The Balinese themselves see little financial gain from the millions of dollars that pass through this place except for very low pay for mostly menial jobs.

The grains are certified by the third - party global Participatory Guarantee Scheme (PGS)'s Organic India Council, and are being sold with overwhelming success - a far cry from the low - paying, menial jobs that many of these women once held.

It can be frustrating to think you have to settle with any old job, especially something that is lower paying, and feels possibly menial to you.