Sentences with phrase «who keep their day jobs»

Research has shown that those who kept their day jobs while starting their businesses were 33 percent more likely to be successful than their risk - taking counterparts.

But factor back in the often overlooked «hybrid entrepreneurs» who keep their day jobs while founding their businesses, and the personalities of entrepreneurs start to look more and more like, well, the personalities of the rest of us.

These so - called «hybrid» entrepreneurs who keep their day jobs make for less thrilling copy and more complicated data analysis among researchers, so they're often undercounted, Raffiee notes, which skews the data on entrepreneurs» traits in general.

Not exact matches

Small Business Saturday is a day for everyone — from the business owners who create jobs to the customers who buy locally — to support small businesses that invigorate the economy and keep communities thriving.

We now seem to have both major parties who accept that a large portion of the necessary, hard, unglamorous, and productive, but unskilled, jobs that keep the economy going every day; janitors, warehouse workers, gardeners, busboys, cooks, assembly line workers etc should work for poverty - level wages.

I've been snowbound since Sunday evening, stuck at home with kids who resent the fact that there are no snow days in homeschool, a wife who wonders why I don't have a job in south Florida (but only on cold winter days), and two animals (a neurotic dog who keeps asking to go out and then to come in, and a kitten that is constantly hunting my various appendages).

I keep starting to write about our day to day life (job searching, moving, the most annoying masters thesis in the world, toddlers who are this very minute singing while kicking the wall and NOT napping) and then decided I'm boring myself and all you're really here for is a recipe.

When Wenger 1st joined us it was Dein who made the transfers happen, the guy is missed every day by Arsenal fans who can grasp that a manager has a board to please to keep his job.

A Lehman Brothers employee who, for now, has kept his job with new owner Barclays, is smoking «20, 30 % more,» in part because «we do nt really have much work to do these days, so we just sit around and talk to people.»

If you don't have a physically active job or aren't able to spend lots of time on your feet during the day, this intensity is important for training the body to use fat as a fuel, especially for individuals who compete in events lasting more than two hours.Although it will be difficult to keep your intensity low on these days, if you've decided that you have lots of time on your hands and the type of training you want to do is primarily aerobic (vs. interval based training), then performing your endurance efforts at a higher intensity than Zone 2 will reduce the effectiveness of your harder workouts on subsequent days by fatiguing muscle and depleting carbohydrate stores in fast - twitch muscle.

Three of us arrive on Wednesday to The Cottages on Charleston Harbor where my goal is to lay like broccoli, get a tan, and just unwind from the really stressful passed month that I've had; between early morning global meetings, being sick, trying to hire a marketing assistant, and just general day job stuff, who has had the time to keep in touch with anyone?!

Two Days, One Night «Timur» Marion Cotillard is mesmerizing in her role as Sandra, a young Belgian mother who discovers her co-workers were pressured to choose a significant pay bonus rather than having her keep the job she so badly needs.

As for Day, who worked with first - time feature director Richie Keen on the TV series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, it's not that his performance was weak, but rather that I just didn't care about his character at all (despite the fact that he was given an overdue pregnant wife and young daughter as justification for why it was critical that he keep his job over others who had been let go in a massive, nonsensical layoff).

When it doesn't, it feels as if he's overcompensating for the weak, routine material that comes with his character — a scared guy who's desperate to get out of the fight, keep his job, and maintain his family obligations (His daughter, played by Alexa Nisenson, has a talent show later in the day, and his pregnant wife, played by JoAnna Garcia Swisher, is three day past her due date — one guess as to how the movie's climax plays out in between the fight sequence).

And most importantly, I learned from protagonist Frank Drebin that often it's the man who goes through life experiencing endless shenanigans while keeping a straight face that will get the job done, save the day, and get the girl.

Parents, especially those who work outside of the home, have long days on the job, often exhausting commutes, and frequent challenges to keep the house in order AND keep an eye on what's happening in their child's school,» Ellis wrote for MSNBC.com.

This is why, when The Passive Voice posted its ever - popular «Who Quit Their Day Job» thread and I asked questions like, «So how much do you keep as an emergency fund?

I don't like using stops, but have a friend who uses stops on all positions because he doesn't have a job that lets him keep an eye on his positions every day.

We like the idea of keeping moving all day long even when you are stuck at a computer for your job, and the FitDesk might just be a solution for some people who can't stand all day long but want to be more active during stretches of typing.

No matter how hard my job seems at times, there's one thing that brings me back to my desk day after day, year after year: The knowledge that all these amazing men, women, and young persons who make up Earth Island's nearly 80 projects, are out there striving tirelessly to achieve that one goal that they have set for themselves be it saving a tiny burrowing owl, keeping our ocean and beaches free of plastic pollution, or fixing our broken food system.

However, as the boss, your job is to create an environment that encourages and rewards the hard work and innovation of the people who keep your business functioning from day to day.

Volunteering can be a great way to keep polished skills that you do not get to use much in your actual job: for example, an accountant who tends to work on his own most of the day might want to volunteer at the local fair to get more personal interaction with the public, just in case a new, more socially active position opens up later.

Finally, for people who want to do this — keep their day job but write a novel on the side — what do you know now that you wished you knew when you started?

So, what is the difference between job seekers who achieve success and those that keep toiling away day after day, week after week, and month after month without landing a job?

«While it may seem as though your resume goes into a black hole, never to see the light of day again, it is typically kept in an employer's database, also known as an applicant tracking System (ATS),» says Kuehl, who has also held talent acquisition leadership roles in Fortune 500 companies, where applicant tracking systems are commonplace to manage large volumes of applications for job openings.