Sentences with phrase «with odd jobs»

During this time, Artschwager supported himself with odd jobs, and was torn between art and other various trades, and eventually apprenticed to a cabinetmaker in 1953.

I was supporting myself with odd jobs as a draftsman.

There, he supported himself with odd jobs and construction work while he devoured everything the brilliant Manhattan art world of the mid-sixties had to offer: lectures on art, books, exhibitions, the chance to meet the likes of Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell — as well as formal art; history classes at New York University, where he earned a bachelor's degree.

But then he took a job at the book counter at the Museum of Modern Art, where he met other young artists with odd jobs there, including Dan Flavin, Robert Ryman and Robert Mangold.

He supported himself instead with odd jobs including operating an illegal casino.

Supporting himself with odd jobs, Stamos painted, visited the handful of New York galleries that exhibited contemporary art, and, in 1941, found a permanent position as the manager of a frame shop on West 18th Street.

He studied liberal arts and science, cofounded a liberal daily newspaper, and supported himself with odd jobs before leaving Yale in 1923 without graduating to commit himself to life as an artist.

Don't get me wrong, they sound great and really get going - they can also haul and tow well - but for someone with a family, who wants a 4WD truck to help with odd jobs and for transporting bigger items, this truck is a great option.

We filled in with odd jobs, me writing for websites and Dan editing a few videos for a friend.

Not exact matches

An environmental activist with no business training and a resume that was little more than a string of odd jobs, he was drawn to the idea of running a business with a strong social mission.

He met with three or more people a day, prepared a 48 - page set of interview notes, and rode the highs and lows of pitching himself for a job that many thought he was an odd fit for.

Eventually, Zhou hopes San Francisco — based SherpaShare can answer that question by working with on - demand platforms to create a schedule for a user's day — drive for Uber in the morning; finish odd jobs for TaskRabbit in the afternoon — to meet an income goal.

A three - time community - college dropout, he spent most of his early twenties working odd jobs, hanging out with his friends at a nearby lake, and generally goofing off.

Uhhh... Same with saying he contemplated going hungry or getting by on odd jobs.

Even when she made it through the odd jobs, milking cows and clearing tables, when she became a cook for the university, I imagine she did not see that she would eventually become the Head Dietician and that for decades businessmen from all over Chattanooga would swarm to that dining hall and stand in line with undergrads to buy a plate of her remarkable food.

His mother was reduced to sewing for pennies, with Charles and his brother selling newspapers and doing odd jobs.

When I saw him there, a few days after he rang me, he told me he could get odd jobs and help with the Way - Out centre.

Considering Job's story is based well after the death of Moses (which oddly enough happens beofer the end of the first 5 books, yet he's credited with being the author... always found that odd).

So the job has been left to a rather odd assortment of men, amateurs either at the game or the faith, who have tried with very little success to make sense of matters too deep for them.

Between interning in D.C. with the Discovery Channel, working at the Lancaster CSA I farmed with last summer, teaching yoga, and some other odd jobs, I've been having one crazy, busy summer.

«Between interning in D.C. with the Discovery Channel, working at the Lancaster CSA I farmed with last summer, teaching yoga, and some other odd jobs»....

After taking two classes at Loyola of Chicago while working odd jobs, he returned to New Haven in» 96, knowing almost no other students, with no athletic eligibility left.

He dismissed six friends who were involved with his record label and doing odd jobs for him while they lived in a house he was leasing for $ 30,000 a year.

ospina has been quite solid for us this season bar the odd mistake, he seems to get on with the job and will make a good number 1 again next season, once we get a settled defensive partnership in front of him of gabriel and kos he willl feel more secure.

i do nt mind schniderlin (as he is primarily a d / m that just has the energy levels to make the odd forward run) he would do a great job for us, either along side le coq protecting the back - line in some games or as a rotation with him.

Well, that was an odd one... Manchester United headed to St James» Park this evening with many suspecting that Louis van Gaal's job would be under serious threat should they fail to secure three points against a Newcastle side in the midst of a genuine relegation battle.

The things she does for a client are cook big meals (including some to freeze), cleaning bathrooms and kitchens and floors, doing laundry, addressing birth announcements, helping with simple breastfeeding problems (like positioning problems) and helping you decide if it's serious enough to call the lactation consultant about or if you can wait for the breastfeeding support group in a few days, holding the baby while you nap or take a shower, playing with older children, fielding phone calls from family and friends, helping look up odd things in the baby book, dialing the pediatrician, and telling you you're doing a great job.

«I can see how small claims might look odd but it is important that all MPs do the job properly and stay connected with local people.»

So it is odd to hear someone as canny and careful as David Greenfield break the façade and reference the Speaker's race on the public record, 19 months ahead of time, with the two leading candidates for the job (Johnson and Ferreras - Copeland) sitting right there.

I then have to juggle with completing my thesis, overseeing other students, and completing odd jobs that my supervisor demands of me.»

Still supplementing my freelance income with teaching, tutoring, and other odd jobs, I had very little time for career development.

In a perfect world I would have, but I actually worked a lot of odd jobs like restaurants to make ends meet until working strictly with Sugar & Cloth and Smilebooth.

But there's barely enough money in the family to pay for the courses David needs, which results in his mother having to swallow her pride and take up a waitressing position with Mrs. Baek, (Linda Han), a kind acquaintance from church, and his father increasingly drinking himself into a stupor between odd jobs he has a hard time keeping down.

Pearce is very good at showing the little touches of transgression that this relationship involves: Moll asks Pascal to come to the family home to do some odd jobs, and Pascal, with instinctive truculence, smokes in the house and muddies up the carpet; Johnny Flynn's performance shows how Pascal is savouring the sense that he has the rights of a disapproved - of boyfriend, and it is by rudeness that he will bolster this position.

Dissatisfied with a mere taste of the theatrical arts and eager to extend acting into a full - time passion, Eigenberg subsequently moved to New York and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, working odd jobs on the side (construction et al.) to put himself through school.Scattered roles followed, including a guest appearance on The Cosby Show and a bit part in the awful 1989 generation - gap comedy Rude Awakening (co-starring Cheech Marin and Eric Roberts), but Sex and the City (which Eigenberg auditioned for out of innumerable hopefuls) represented the actor's first huge break.

A near walking corpse, with an odd, dark fire in his eyes and a strangely low body temperature and heartbeat, Devlin doesn't know what to do with the rest of his life, however long that may be — he's got enemies still walking around who would like to finish the job, and neither the doctor nor the priest can tell him how long he might live.

Paddington, now happily settled with the Brown family, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt's 100th birthday.

The spend most of their free time working odd jobs with family members and dreaming of an easier life.

The story focuses on the painfully odd teen, Duncan (Liam James), who is forced into a vacation with his mom (Toni Collette) and her boyfriend (Steve Carell) who's decided it's his job to educate and humiliate Duncan over the course of their stay.

When we meet Lee Chandler (Affleck), he's living a solitary and pretty grim - looking life as a Boston apartment block janitor: by day, he does odd jobs for people he never bonds with; by night, he drinks alone at a local bar.

Next, she bounced around in a variety of odd jobs until she met with overnight success as an R&B singer.

Variety reports that Hugh Grant and Brendan Gleeson have joined the film, which will see «the beloved bear, happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, embark upon a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen.»

The odd hybrid of small town soap opera and brutal crime thriller builds slowly — maybe a little too slowly for some — but director Richard Fleischer does an impressive job of weaving the stories and character around each other visually, with characters criss - crossing through scenes and Fleischer panning his camera to across the vast canvas to pick out threads of others stories.

Steely - eyed and soft - hearted, Mike connects with Judy instantly — he also happens to be attempted to be repossessing her TV at the time, just one of the odd jobs his de facto father, Klan boss Tom Griffin (Tom Wilkinson) provides for him — his first experience feeling any kind of connection with a woman.

Turturro stars in his latest feature, Fading Gigolo, as Fioravante, an introverted, solitary New Yorker who works a series of odd jobs until his buddy Murray (Woody Allen) suggests an odder job: Playing male escort to an attractive but insecure bisexual dermatologist (Sharon Stone) who's hunting for a man to round out a ménage à trois with her lover (Sofía Vergara).

Official Site: https://www.paddington.com/us/ Release Date: January 12, 2018 DVD / Blu - ray Release Date: April 24, 2018 Synopsis: Paddington, now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen.

Thanks to an unfortunate incident in a barber chair (one of his odd jobs) with the judge, Paddington goes to jail.

With his Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday approaching, he wants to give her the hand - made pop - up book of London landmarks he discovers in Gruber's (Jim Broadbent) second - hand shop and starts working odd jobs to save up to buy it.

So Paddington takes a series of odd jobs to raise the money to buy the book — and King meticulously crafts the set - ups to the inevitable meltdowns that occur with each new gig.

Not to disappoint, this film also features such time - honored classic clichés like the killer that seemingly is able to keep pace with someone running full speed while he is merely walking briskly (just once I'd like to see a psychopath who drives everywhere), the scared teen bumping into someone they think is the killer when it clearly is a coat rack, the killer that insists on using some odd instrument of death when a gun would do the job ten times more efficiently, and the ending that sets up the sequel should this one prove a financial success.