Sentences with phrase «who make a living at»

As a person who makes a living at writing, I confess that regularly — every five minutes or so — I must battle artistic pride.
Additionally, instructors who make a living at online instruction are able to interact with pupils from around the nation.
Do you want people running your schools like Charles Hurwitz (world class scumbag) or folks who make their living at Bain Capital?!

Not exact matches

But he recently made news for a late - life career switch: Next June, at the Berlin State Opera, he'll direct «The Pearl Fishers,» an opera by the French composer Bizet, who is famous for «Carmen.»
The feedback loop of the city making itself attractive to start - ups and start - ups helping to make the city attractive to talented young people (who in turn create more businesses that attract more young people) is only getting started, but Robinson says he can already see the effects both in terms of the area's legitimacy — «people are saying, «hey, I would actually invest here or I would start my business here» as opposed to 10 years ago where people would avoid the city at all costs» — and quality of life for young people.
Smart people know that we achieve our best life when we take time to look honestly at who we are and where we are and then make a change.
«Shark Tank» star Daymond John, who built a billion dollar brand while living on the tips he made waiting tables at Red Lobster, has a similar mentality.
But, since that study looked only at people who'd already made it into ripe old age, it's tough to say whether or not the study participants developed these characteristics as a result of old age or if the traits helped them to live as long as they had.
Like Steve Jobs (who was so insistent that employees bump into one another that he placed Pixar's single bathroom at the center of the building), Pogue recommends motivating people to leave their normal workspaces by making life a little less convenient.
The Bishops (eBay user ID: harley1983), who live in Chadwick, Missouri, make arrangements to transport each piece of equipment themselves, arranging a date with the buyer at the time of sale.
In all of the above cases the entrepreneur who is susceptible to the confirmation bias will look for information and analyze it in a way that will yield: 1) fewer competitors rather than more, because it increases the viability of the start - up, 2) underestimation of the capabilities of the competition because stronger competitors will make life harder for the entrepreneur, 3) view of the company's product as fully addressing the needs of the customer because otherwise the start - up is at a weaker position in the marketplace, and 4) need for less resources rather than more because it generally makes raising the money easier.
With the advantages of youth on your side — a fresh perspective on business ideas, possibly low overhead (if you're living at home rent - free), and the ability to make mistakes early in the game and have plenty of time to correct them — starting a business is a very attractive option for young people who would rather answer to themselves than earn minimum wage.
«You are the most diverse class in Northeastern's history — in other words, you are Donald Trump's worst nightmare... I think that everything that we've lived and learned tells us that we will never come out on top if we accept advice from soundbite salesmen and carnival barkers who pretend the most powerful country on Earth can remain great by looking inward and hiding behind walls at a time that technology has made that impossible to do and unwise to even attempt.
I spend a lot of time with people who work at Tumblr, but I make a very poor effort to hang out with other people in my life.
As a reporter at CNBC Make It, I've covered some of the most incredible — including a 28 - year - old whose company has made millions buying things at Walmart and reselling them on Amazon and an entrepreneur who started selling board games out of his living room.
Mobile access can mean a variety of things in these days of tablets and smart phones, but for someone who wants to be able to access their live chat almost any time and from any location with Internet access, the best option is Website Alive, which at $ 29.95 a month for the first two operators also makes sound financial sense.
In fact, if nothing else, you could say that the story of Andy Grove — a busboy who fled a life lived under Fascists, Nazis, and Communists to get an education at an institution free to all, including refugees, then taking that knowledge and using it to help invent an entire industry — illustrates exactly what makes America great.
High - performance doesn't equal living at the office anymore, and if your goal is to have a high - functioning company for the long term and to really make it sustainable, you need to embrace the fact that your employees are people who also have lives and responsibilities outside of work.
Automated response systems are okay, says Dewar, who teaches at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, but companies should facilitate access to live representatives by making direct contact the first option on a service menu.
(Barron's) • In Search of the Perfect Recession Indicator (Philosophical Economics) • A Fireside Chat With Charlie Munger (MoneyBeat) • Complexity theory and financial regulation (Science) • Five Pieces of Conventional Wisdom That Make Smart Investors Look Dumb (CFA Institute) • This Lawyer Is Hollywood's Complete Divorce Solution (Bloomberg) • Curiosity update, sols 1218 - 1249: Digging in the sand at Mar's Bagnold Dunes (Planetary Society) • The Plot to Take Down a Fox News Analyst (NYT) • Ask the aged: Who better to answer questions about the purpose of life than someone who has been living theirs for a long tiWho better to answer questions about the purpose of life than someone who has been living theirs for a long tiwho has been living theirs for a long time?
Home inspection is a professional consulting business that allows inspectors to work in the field, providing key information at a critical time for consumers who are making one of the largest purchases of their life.
Going back to the athlete analogy, life coaching is for anyone who wants to improve their performance — whether you're trying to advance at work or make more meaningful personal connections.
[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?
Spearheaded by Alhadeff, Make Schools Safe will hold a tennis fundraiser on May 11 at the Parkland Tennis Center to raise awareness for the organization and honor the victims who lost their lives in the Feb. 14 attack.
No one has suggested anything of the sort, unless of course asking people to be aware of their privilege, listening to those who don't have it, and doing what they can to address it in their daily lives (see Mary Anne's comment for a beautiful illustration of how even small gestures make a difference) is something that comes «at personal cost.»
And all this avalanche was caused by a not very successful attempt by a porn actress Stormy Daniel to make a photo robot of a man who allegedly threatened her and her daughter if she did not give up attempts to cancel the agreement between her and Donald Trump, forbidding her to publish memories of their not quite platonic relationships, at the time in his life, when he could not imagine himself as President of the United States even in his worst nightmare.
Zuckerberg's fishbowl office makes sense for a man who has dedicated his career to helping people share aspects of their lives, but the sight of the Facebook C.E.O. with a screen on his face was at that point best kept a secret.
At the same time, this is important for professional traders who make a living out of official and licensed exchange markets.
Borrowers who are interested in an FHA Purchase Loan must be able to make a down - payment of at least 3.5 % (which can be a gift), must live in the property they are purchasing and have a debt - to - income ratio no higher than 50 - 55 % (depending on their credit history).
So, for a couple with at least one member who expects to live into their late 80s or 90s, deferring the higher earner's benefit may make sense.
David Kipping, an astronomer at Columbia University who was not involved with the research, told the New Scientist that there «is a legitimate case to be made that this system could host life, and we may be able to infer the presence of that life in the next decade.»
They are by no means living large right now compared to someone who makes 200k in Texas, and at 200k in expenses they will be living like a family making 75k in Texas.
Once upon a time, there was a young man who got his dream job in the financial services industry, thought he could make it big one day and worked hard at it, then got disillusioned and disgusted by what he saw around, and finally quit to live a life of greater peace and fulfillment, while pursuing his passion in value investing.
Here at International Living, we know a bunch of people who travel the globe and make a very good living as treasure - huLiving, we know a bunch of people who travel the globe and make a very good living as treasure - huliving as treasure - hunters.
Interesting data points: Absentee buyers, typically investors who don't intend on living in the home as a primary residence, made up 22.3 percent of all homes sold in March, up from 20.9 percent at the same time last year.
Even just a kind word or a greeting card to someone who's hurting can make such a difference in their lives and it makes me feel full of God's love at the same time.
Now what do we get in return, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, oh those who are enjoying the good life at our expenses will tell us that their particular god makes the sun shine each day and provides food and protection.
Rather than looking at corporate work as the evil scourge of the earth (though you certainly want to make sure your personal values align with an organization's corporate values), riding the elevator to the 11th floor every day may be exactly where God needs you to develop your spiritual character, your gifts and to reach those who are broken, empty and living without knowing their Savior.
All those things are worthwhile and good goals, but looking around my church at the twentysomethings who are making a lot of big life decisions, rarely do I see an example of a young millennial who has gone the traditional route of a four - year college degree to find themselves in a cubicle on the 11th floor — or at least who are happy being there.
Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...
Buckley was never a professional Catholic, in the sense of someone who made his living from the fact of his faith, and his standing as a Catholic commentator may have declined when, in 1961, National Review responded to John XXIII's encyclical on Christianity and social progress, Mater et Magistra, with an unsigned quip: «Mater si, Magistra no» (though most reports now ascribe it to a hotshot young writer at the magazine named Garry Wills.)
Since Southern Baptists abandoned native son Jimmy Carter and joined the Reagan revolution in 1980, they have become an increasingly important part of those values - voters who have made the Republicans, at least for now, the majority party in American political life.
Religion makes it okay to lie, the proof is throughout it's history and even at its core, All those who claim to be religious have a huge amount of doubt and they fight that all their lives until they have an instance where they have no control.
Austin: Your problem is that you like to THINK you are deserving of this so - called place named heaven over someone who has NEVER put others lives at risk and ha kept an open - mind... it is that arrogance that makes you a pathetic human.
But now those are already there at yours maybe if you prepare them right as to education and training for finally deputing them to return to their own countries with the needful backup and authority they will be useful tools for the advancement and prosperity of their nations then you will have no one wanting to immigrate leaving behind their own families and friends... in addition to that you will see those who immigrated towards your country start moving back to their own countries and this is the only solution to resolve the issue of illegal immigration and to find peace... otherwise if things go on as it is today surely slowly slowly you will find that your own countries become inherited by piling up immigrants who might get starved due negligence turn on against the Host country... that has contributed in the destructions of their countries but not towards and advancements or developments of their countries and nations to find peace and make a living..!?
I believe that we are living at the greatest time in all of time to make a lasting difference that will outlast us, if we are willing to take a risk of seeking to understand before being understood of seeking to allow those who may not believe in the same way you may to witness your core beliefs lived out in the day - to - day.
jwt, yeahright, tom tom on the pipe, and others YHWH made this law of life for all the people of this earth, so to say your god is redundant, and at a lost for as He states in Isaiah 56, and in Exodus 33 vs. 16 this is for all nations, and people of this earth those who were mislead, and not taught properly by these priest, popes, false prophets, elders, and shepherds, as YHWH taught us of them all misleading the flocks, in Malachi 2, Jeremiah 23 vs.1 - 8, Ezekiel 20, and Ezekiel 34, yet YHWH will save them all when His day comes, as said in Isaiah 51 vs. 5, that His righteousness is near.
It makes it seem that Gabe is not really aware of any «normal» people like you and me who are trying to live the gospel among our neighbors and coworkers without millions of dollars and thousands of powerful contacts at our disposal.
It makes me think of a terrorist at an event in a huge arena with a grenade who with one pull of a pin can totally destroy the joy of a beautifully prepared day and the lives of countless people who spent money and travelled to get there.
However, it is difficult to make time and provide room for people who spend a fraction of their week at the church to have a say in most of what occurs in the life of the church.
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