Sentences with phrase «spent nights working»

Joseph Ruggiero, who became director of the Bridge Authority in 2010, said he once spent a night working in a toll booth to better understand its operations.

But then the due date is getting closer and closer and young people get stricken with panic and need to spend nights working on their paper.

At the Muhinga cassiterite mine in South Kivu, diggers told researchers that they are forced to pay $ 10 each to the military for permission to spend a night working in the mineshafts.

Not exact matches

Though the thought of running your own business, spending your days working on something you're passionate about, and choosing how and where you spend your time is enticing, realize there are days if not years of sleepless nights, cash flow shortfalls and mindset hurdles between you and your destination.

Keeping a 24 - 7 Work Schedule: When Leon Oks co-founded iCanvasART, an online seller of custom canvases, he and several employees spent day and night working from his dining room.

Until October 2009, Harmon worked full - time at another job while spending his nights exploring new ways of selling the obscure tongue brush.

He spent his childhood working in factories, and at night he forced himself to sleep as a way to forget his constant hunger.

As Maguire and Schoppik worked day and night trying to keep the website from crashing, Kalin was spending his time dreaming up new features.

Many factors are contributing to this: the ubiquity of smartphones and internet access, the increasingly global scope of business and, importantly, greater acceptance of flexible and / or alternative work arrangements (think: spending only three hours in the office during the day, then catching up from the neighbourhood coffee shop at night).

After Trump signed the order on a Friday night, executives at Starbucks spent the weekend crafting a plan to address employees working in the US and abroad, as well as provide concrete steps beyond rhetorical support for diversity.

By taking time to work out, spend time with your family and making sure you do not burn out, you will start to notice that sometimes you solve your toughest problems on that morning run, or while lying in bed with your 2 - year - old as she falls asleep at night.

Time spent in the trenches of a large scale, high - tech turnaround that married me to my desk night, day and weekends versus a clearly architected lifestyle work environment has produced scars of different shapes and sizes.

If you spent 60 working — more than the vast majority of people — and slept 8 hours per night (56 per week) that would leave 52 hours for other things.

«This is what I spent many late nights at the Gigafactory working on.»

If I can't get at least three hours of sleep, my time is better spent powering up with a meal and working through the night.

Or if the business model requires you to work nights and weekends and you're looking to spend more time with your family, that's probably a bad fit.

Translation: After spending hours churning away at work, we're more likely to binge shop online, «overspend when going out late at night or take short - cuts when completing tax returns,» Chance says.

Instead of working in a corporate office and spending nights and weekends ghostwriting novels — four in one year — as I had back in my six - figure days, I had spent the past seven months backpacking around the world.

From dealing with slow cash flow to product mishaps, I've spent many unglamorous nights lying in bed wondering how I was going to make my company work.

The last thing you want is to neglect living your life and enjoying things because you find yourself spending long nights working at something that has become a chore and an obligation.

As a novice trader (6 months) I have spent countless days and nights searching for common sense instruction and insight into developing a trading style and method that works for me.

Get it all wrong, and you'll find yourself spending your Saturday nights at the DigitalPoint forums, complaining that «link building is so hard and it's not working anymore».

I want to thank Brian for his tireless work ethic and sharing his drive campaigning as well as the many mornings, evenings and nights that he spent working toward the growth of social democracy in Alberta.

I spent months calculating free cash flow, tracking working capital changes, and taking every night course offered in finance to fill the technical gaps left by my humanities education.

His marriage was in shambles and the pace of his work was so tough that King spent many nights without any sleep.

THink for yourself... obviously it stirred you up... and you are still responding... because the way i wrote it was to incite those feelings... how else can you get to say all you want... if i wanted to spend all night writing then maybe id care... but as i said... leaders do not care what others think... your opinions are as well founded as a mermaid on land... because the way i write a blog does not hinder my ability to get my point across... try adding feeling to your writing... and you might find it works better than your seemingly monotnous tone

I spent a summer in the 1950s working on the railroad by day and reading Sartre and Marx by night.

It is, of course, our story: the threat, real or simply paranoid; the flight in terror through the wilderness of despair; the wonder of sustenance in the desert; the darkness, the stillness, the strangely comforting loneliness of the cave in which we spend a night or a week or however long it takes for the noise and fury of our hell to subside; the perception of the gift, now, of gentle silence; the miracle, then, of the discovery anew of the «isness» of the Word, but the immediate, bitter protest against it because it will not let us stay in this place of haven from storm, this realm of the silence of gentleness, because it sends us back again, and because it rebukes the pride of our paranoia, our monumental sense of absolutely unique commitment and persecution; and finally our return, to call an Elisha on the way and to resume the work of ministry to Word of God and word of earth, renewed by the whole kaleidoscopic experience of the trip to the Cave.

Last night, I even spent some time with my best friend Dusty, sitting on his front porch and talking about life, work and faith.

Work is stressful, we have sleepless nights over our cash flow, Friday nights spent dealing with problems in our building site and arguments over who will walk Austin — just like everyone else, but when you're worrying about your own things, I'm not going to add mine to the list.

I'm sure some of you stay up all night and spend all weekend working too, it's definitely a choice you make when you decide to start your own business, and I think it's important to note that you're absolutely not alone in that!

Here's a secret about food editors: we spend so much time developing recipes and cooking that at night — between the busy day in the office and after - work activities like dance classes and book clubs — the last thing we want to do is cook.

When I was a total loner in junior high + high school and friends were scarce at best, she was the one I would choose to spend my nights and weekends with — watching Gilmore Girls, working out together, running errands, drinking way too much coffee, and cooking yummy meals + treats.

After spending most of his culinary experience working nights and weekends and holidays, he made the transition into the sales end of the hospitality industry representing Young's Meat and Provisions around 1992.

For a single working person who like to eat well and doesn't want to spend a lot of time cooking on week nights --- this is SO perfect.

I've always been a fan of a flexible schedule so working nights in restaurants and spending the days snowboarding seemed perfect to me.

It's like when you call your spouse and agree to meet up at a bar after work instead of spending weeks planning an overwrought fancy - dinner night out.

It makes no sense — after spending a little less than 48 hours in California, he'll have to fly all night to be back at work in Cincinnati by 9 a.m. — but Woods just has to get back and kick it with his home boys, to transport to Fresno the glory he has wrought, to try it out, like buying a new hat and hurrying home to see it in the bedroom mirror.

It's why he spends 45 minutes on his elliptical trainer three nights a week at 10 o'clock while drinking a protein shake, convinced that no other back is working so late to gain an edge.

In addition to watching NBA basketball every night from October to April — both in arenas and via League Pass — I've spent most of the last seven months consuming basketball content, poring over statistics, and talking to people who work in the league.

While often the black boys unload freight or work on the docks during the day, then spend long dreary hours in the gym at night, the white fighter is «romanced» — no job, no fights over his head, the best equipment, expensive sparring partners.

One individual, who we'll call Monica, confessed to spending «night after night trolling through various computer game forums, insisting that Morata's off - the - ball work was more beneficial to the team as a whole than Lukaku's goalhanging.

Grujic was only granted a work permit last week and left the country on Sunday, spending the night in Paris before flying back to the UK, in order to satisfy the bizarre regulations.

A rare evening for me not spent working on a Saturday night meant I could sit at home and shoot the breeze (albeit alone and in my head) about the state of play down at the Emirates and a few conclusions have been drawn.

I work a night shift and when I get home I'm tired but I force myself to spend time with my wife and son.

The last 24 hours of our trip started with a sudden car breakdown, waiting for repair shops to open (of course it happened on a Sunday), finding a hotel for one more night, and coming up with ways to spend 24 hours with three kids in a hotel room in the middle of a strip mall with no working car.

Along with the time away from home, there would be days when he would only have ten hours between shifts to wind down from work, spend time with us, eat «dinner», and get a full night's sleep.

Still, if you can be present for the bedtime wind down, you can spend some quality, affectionate time with your child on a work / school night and likely slow your headlong dive into the grave.

Between normal life and trying to have a regular date night with your spouse, regularly getting a babysitter for the younger children so you can spend time with the oldest seems like an idea that won't happen because it is too hard to work out.

If your child is spending a great deal of time on their homework each night, more than 10 minutes per grade level, talk with your child's teacher to see if the work needs to be reduced or if there is a different approach to doing the work that your child needs to try.