Sentences with phrase «was out of a job just»

Rex Tillerson, the former secretary of state, was out of a job just a few days later.

Yet he was out of a job just six months later, having been sacked in the midst of a media storm caused by his now - notorious claim made in an interview with the Times:

Not exact matches

Ali, moreover, points out that planners, because they work so often with members of the public, need to be versed not just in the technical elements of the job; they must also possess exemplary communications skills, and have to be able to respond to criticism or skepticism from residents.

As Loverboy belted out in their 1981 hit, «Everybody's working for the weekend» — but if you land one of Canada's best jobs, you just might start looking forward to Monday as well.

Kinross Gold's Tye Burt, Centerra Gold's Stephen Lang (he's now chairman) and Great Basin Gold's Ferdi Dippenaar are just three of the many gold company executives who found themselves out of a job or kicked upstairs.

«People look at you and say, «You just got the job because of your dad»... It was very important to me, branching out and getting to know people and having people know me for me as opposed to knowing me for being my dad's son.»

Before they parachuted their cars out of airplanes and did jobs for the military across the globe, the characters of the «Fast and Furious» franchise were just street racers looking for a rush.

«To be honest, I just wanted a steady job out of college,» Alper said.

«I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.»

If you're just starting out, hopefully you have done your research by asking other business people in the same field as you, using knowledge of the field you had at a previous job, and / or doing market research.

Albertans aren't too far behind either — just 7 % are conducting out - of - province job searches, and most are looking to trade places with Manitobans.

Increasingly, employers are checking out social media profiles — and not just to find potentially incriminating photos of job applicants.

Marla Malcolm Beck, CEO of Bluemercury, said in an interview with Adam Bryant of The New York Times that she always reminds students that «nobody ends up in the first job they choose out of college, so just find something that is interesting to you, because you tend to excel at things you're interested in.

«I wanted to test out three jobs — tour guide, dog trainer and something in the wine industry — but there was just no way of doing it.»

When you were broke you were just broke and when you were out of a job you were just out of a job, period.

It's not just out of habit, he says, it's mostly because his construction crews are on the job at that time too.

We've all been there: researching a company, writing a cover letter, preparing a profile, putting in hours of work for a single job application, just to find out that — well, we actually never find out anything.

Just as in business, Vanderkam believes that individuals need to do a better job of recognizing what they're good at, and what they're passionate about, and to focus on spending their time on those things to get the most out of the time allotted them.

Unemployment, measured in a different survey, edged down to 7.7 % from 7.9 % in January and, for once, not just because more Americans gave up the job search: 170,000 said they had found employment, meaning those who dropped out of the labour force were less than half the total.

He was a co-op student; she had just landed her first full - time job out of school.

Here is a topic that most people can relate to whether you are just starting out in your career, looking for a part time job or even a veteran in the working world, climbing your way to the top of the corporate ladder.

If you're working another full - time job with nobody fully invested, you are running the risk of burning out, acting with less urgency and just not having enough hours in the day to get what you need done.

There's been a lot of recent press coverage about how millennials are turning out to be a marketing disappointment because of their lack of disposable income and job prospects (Bloomberg BusinessWeek called them «penny pinching» just last month).

As long as he doesn't see any consumer price inflation that you're not going to have in a world where people are still coming out of the rice patties to take a job at $ 0.70 an hour, then he's going to keep the interest rates artificially low, totally medicated and rigged, and that will encourage speculators to just keep going, and going, and going until the next bubble.

(While Donovan has deployed this advice in helping women to narrow the gender pay gap, she points out that her advice applies to job candidates of both genders; women just tend to be less aware of these issues going into a negotiation.)

Ms. Gouw and Ms. Fonstad — who met 25 years ago at Bain and Company, their first job out of college, and have spent two decades in the venture capital industry — said they wanted to return to hands - on investing in companies when they are just starting and as they mature.

It's often easier to start a new business while you're still doing your day job, following a hunch that what you love might be just what a lot of customers out there are willing to pay for!

Not merely a collection of good ideas, this book spells out the 67 timeless principles and practices used by the world's most successful men and women — proven principles and strategies that can be adapted for your own life, whether you want to be the best salesperson in your company, become a leading architect, score top grades in school, lose weight, buy your dream home, make millions, or just get back in the job market.

The Entrepreneur article notes, «Let's just say that it's important to not move a person out of a job he or she loves and excels in, in order to «reward» them.

One of them might be just the thing that you've been looking for to get out of that job you hate and into your seat as your own boss.

In some ways, that was just a matter of domestic Canadian cheap labour being edged out of jobs by foreign cheaper labour.

As industry job cuts top 200,000 worldwide, Exxon has kept its 75,300 - strong workforce intact with none of the sweeping layoffs seen at other oil companies, including its biggest U.S. rival Chevron Corp. «Exxon is just stronger financially than anyone else out there,» Brian Youngberg, an analyst at Edward Jones & Co. in St. Louis, said in an interview.

Wake up America why we are letting Peter King and people like him to waste time and money on non issues they should be working to solve the real problems facing this country JOBS LOSSES, OUT SOURCEING, BUDGET DEFICIET, BANKS, INSURANCE COMPANIES, UN JUST FOREIGN POLICY, SOCIAL SECURITY, LABOUR UNION PROBLEMS, JOB SECURITY for those who have any jobs left, bringing our troops home from UNJUST and ILLEGAL WARS, KILLING OF INNOCENT PEOPLE, OIL COMPANIES making billions of unjust Profit and paying millions to their CEO's, INFRA STRUCTURES ROADS and BRIDGES and so many other Real issues that they have been elected to soJOBS LOSSES, OUT SOURCEING, BUDGET DEFICIET, BANKS, INSURANCE COMPANIES, UN JUST FOREIGN POLICY, SOCIAL SECURITY, LABOUR UNION PROBLEMS, JOB SECURITY for those who have any jobs left, bringing our troops home from UNJUST and ILLEGAL WARS, KILLING OF INNOCENT PEOPLE, OIL COMPANIES making billions of unjust Profit and paying millions to their CEO's, INFRA STRUCTURES ROADS and BRIDGES and so many other Real issues that they have been elected to sojobs left, bringing our troops home from UNJUST and ILLEGAL WARS, KILLING OF INNOCENT PEOPLE, OIL COMPANIES making billions of unjust Profit and paying millions to their CEO's, INFRA STRUCTURES ROADS and BRIDGES and so many other Real issues that they have been elected to solvOF INNOCENT PEOPLE, OIL COMPANIES making billions of unjust Profit and paying millions to their CEO's, INFRA STRUCTURES ROADS and BRIDGES and so many other Real issues that they have been elected to solvof unjust Profit and paying millions to their CEO's, INFRA STRUCTURES ROADS and BRIDGES and so many other Real issues that they have been elected to solve.

they are hiring 50 new people and this is a good company, i would retire from it (if i stay on disability and live till 65, i get full pension anyways) and the original job just dropped into my lap on a silver platter 15 years ago out of the blue 2 seconds before i realized i needed it.

Should she just suck it up and deal with it, losing her job and failing out of school because you think the medical solution to her situation should be illegal?

no apparent evidence of ill - will, and 3)... an experience of unity.Now, David, I haven't known you for very long (blogwise), but I respect what I have read from yr deep and thoughtful spirit, so with that in mind, I just don't see how this personal experience is translatable or cd be used as some kind of template when faced with the real Wal - Mart world.Do we not, like Jesus, show out true colours under pressure.Maybe I'm missing something... please correct me If I am and remember, I'm not into boob jobs (cleavage enhancement)

Yet, her beliefs are not to celebrate birthdays or holidays and she picks a job that is all about giving gifts and wrapping them in beautiful paper to give in celebration of another... I smell a Jehovah rat who probably took this job just to wait out a pay day.

The issue has so far been ceded — by default — to pseudo-moralists like Richard Lugar, Pat Buchanan and the Christian Coalitionist's Ralph Reed, who have been the only major political voices to speak out against the proliferation of legalized gambling... The highest formulaic expression of the New American Economy might just be «casinos plus part - time jobs.»

«God» just makes it up as he goes and when called out on it simply tells people «MY ways are not your ways» or tells someone (Job in this instance) that unless that person can tell God the location of God's secret snow and hail warehouses (I'm not kidding), he, God.

In most states, people can still be fired from their (secular) jobs just for being gay, or thrown out of their homes if their landlord doesn't like LGBT people.

I really thank the author of this article and all the people who replied with their comment on it.I am just another a pastor whose been out of job for almost 3 years.

I mean, all the people who sell only weed would be out of business and might turn to harder drugs but also might actually go and find a legit job instead, heck, they could just work at a dispensary and put their skills to use.

That would include the ones who come into my business and curse me out, and especially those who direct bad behavior toward LGBTQs, such as screaming at us, trying to get us fired from our jobs (you can be fired in over thirty states just for being gay), threatening us, hitting us, throwing us out of our homes and the other behaviors mentioned in these posts.

It is «just at the height of Job's trial... just in the midst of the terror of the other, the incomprehensible, ununderstandable works, just from out of the secret,» that God's ways of working are revealed.

If you are telling the effeminate applicant that this job position just isn't right for them because you felt a little uncomfortable during the interview, then you are a disgusting bigot who needs to get the fvck out of America.

Some jobs are just a bad fit and can suck the life out of you.

Just before the calendars ticked over from 1999 to 2000, one pastor was voted out of his job by church members who complained that he refused to preach warnings about the coming world disaster called the Millennium Bug (remember that non-event?).

When a woman wants out of that job it would be affecting her morals more than she is just scared, tired of the same old thing, wants benefits, wants to unionize, needs a change or similar.

Social media creates a world of constant comparisons, we're no longer just comparing ourselves with our friends and the people around us but we're now comparing ourselves with hundreds or even thousands of total strangers — some of whom make a career out of the things we can be jealous of, whether that's a dream job, a super models abs or a yoga teachers handstands.

And I'm pretty proud of myself because despite Kyle being out of town I did a decent job of still making myself quality meals... as opposed to just half - assing it and rummaging through the fridge after putting P down.