Sentences with phrase «work small jobs»

Nine years after winning $ 10.6 million, Sharon Tirabassi of Hamilton, Ont., wound up back where she started: working small jobs, riding the bus and living in a rented house.

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A Georgetown University research cited 2005 data that found that small companies were four times more likely to offer flexible working arrangements such as job sharing.

Even though they might be creating jobs merely in the single or small double digits, they are the backbone of what makes America great, considering that a sizable proportion of the working population is employed by small businesses.

He wanted to work on films, but those jobs were scarce, so he took a job as an assistant at a small talent - management company called BKEG, owned by former comedian and comedy manager Barry Katz.

If you found a VA that you liked working with so much that you offered him or her a permanent job, you wouldn't be the first savvy small business owner to find employees this way.

After full days of working on design projects as diverse as flatware, stores, and exhibits for the local zoo, Anderson would meet Sand at the job shop Sand ran in a small warehouse in San Francisco.

What's more, his polarizing lack of political correctness can also work against him among women and minority businesspeople, leaving the door open to his rival Clinton, whose small business platform and reputation for getting the job done may very well win over undecided voters.

The job came with fantastic working hours in a wonderful small shop, and it paid a great salary.

In a state where there are 600,000 citizens and few jobs with big corporations, starting or working in a small company is not so much a choice as a necessity.

The reality, however, is that these on - demand platforms are doing a great job at supplying needed work to the unskilled workforce (i.e., delivery, transportation, etc.), however for skilled small business owners («SMBs»)-- like in the home services sector — the jobs are low paying and the clients are «owned» by the platforms themselves.

Yet small - business owners often tend to replicate the corporate work environment they're familiar with in order to encourage productivity and a sense of job security in team members.

I find it fascinating that we, as a culture, speak about bring jobs back to the US but a small entrepreneur has such a hard time finding a company with whom to work.

«Small business owners should not worry about [a higher minimum], because they will get a higher quality of work, and your business will get much bigger returns from happier customers if you have happy employees doing a good job for you,» Nguyen says.

It's official — people who work for small companies like their jobs better than those who work for large ones.

Thirty - six percent of small - company employees reported being «fully engaged» with their jobs, compared with 29 percent of those who worked at larger companies.

And while 26 percent of large company employees reported feeling «fully disengaged» from their jobs, only 18 percent of those who worked for small companies described themselves this way.

If your employees are completing all assignments within a small fraction of their work days, maybe you need to add new challenges to their jobs.

I don't know if that cost him his job but after spending his entire 26 - year career at HP, McClellan later took a demotion to work for Red Hat, a much smaller company.

And sometimes, smaller organizations win talent wars by looking for gifted employees where larger companies often fear to tread: Job candidates who lack skills or experience, but seem like cultural fits based on work ethic and personality.

David's «Made in America» series has become a hallmark of World News, showing just how impactful our work can be as he champions small town triumphs and companies creating jobs.

Depending on where you live, there's legislation pending that will levy more regulations and taxes on fracking, which in a time of rapidly falling oil prices could significantly hurt local energy companies that provide jobs and work for small businesses.

Small businesses could even be boosted by the public works project he described that hearkens back to a New Deal - approach to creating jobs and an effort to renovate 35,000 new schools.

Like several of the cities in the top 10, Nashville has its work cut out for it building a strong networking and training program for small businesses, but the home of country music has seen a boost in job growth and business regulations since 2014.

At the same time smaller, nimbler business models are blossoming, which means slightly less certainty in the job hunt, but often more flexibility and some sorely - needed improvements to work - life balance.

The case for expanding investment in entrepreneurs and small businesses is clear: small businesses create two out of every three new private sector jobs and half the people who work in America own or work for a small business.

It's filled with work - life balance tips, small business resources, how to motivate employees and find out what makes people happy, and how social entrepreneurship is allowing people finally to say «I Love My Job!»

Dear Mark, i do believe in entrepreneurs as i am one of them.I curently operate a dental laboratory in California, that needs funding.I am in the procces of attracting business from dentists i work with through direct mail and telemarketing.I'm setting up a small offshore office to do the marketing part since the overhead is to expensive here.But the manufacturing of the finished products will be done in the USA creating jobs through production.A lot of manufacturing work is done offshore but through line production i'd like to keep the most in here.As an immigrant to this country i'd like to suport it to get back in shape financialy for the future of my childrens.I am also copying an idea i have seen at a large company i used to work.I'm in the process of setting up 2 other companies that will compete with my existing one but since they will be providing same products at different prices will atract different type of clients (dentists).

If I'm working for Fannie Mae and buy $ 2 billion worth of loans from Countrywide (now part of Bank of America), I may hope that when they break up Fannie Mae into a smaller agencies, I may get a nice vice-presidential job in Bank of America.

Work flexibility is important to me because I have 2 small children and I really want them to feel like I am «there» for them, whether it be physically or being able to leave my job behind and just «be» in the present with them.

He says the New Jersey bank would «take money out of Wall Street and put it to work for New Jersey — creating jobs and growing the economy [by] using state deposits to finance local investments... and... support billions of dollars of critical investments in infrastructure, small businesses, and student loans — saving our residents money and returning all profits to the taxpayers.»

I recommend all of you to start saving aggressively, build a CD ladder, invest in rental properties, look into dividend yielding stocks, work harder at your jobs, leverage your skills to teach others, and start a small business.

In addition to his full - time job at a cafe, Matthew also works as a freelance artist and editor and even published a small graphic novel.

«[We'll provide immediate and permanent help for Canada's hard working small business people, who are the backbone of the local communities and the creators of 80 per cent of all new jobs in this country,» Mulcair said, in announcing the nearly 20 per cent tax reduction.

Specific measures include renegotiating the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); assisting small business through Green Venture Capital Funds and tax shifting; encouraging the production and consumption of Canadian agricultural products; protecting fish stocks and promoting sustainable aquaculture; and working with the forestry industry to protect jobs and develop value - added products.

This may present itself in the form of a full - time job with a salary, owning a small business, or even freelance work.

But this survey shows that there are smaller, but still incredibly significant, benefits to working a flexible job.

Do you have any advice or ideas for those of us at home with small children, or working the daily grind 9 - 5 jobs, or in school full - time to honor our commitments to family, work and school while simultaneously working to benefit our communities?

He may be assigned work to do around the mission and, when he is recovered enough to be able, sent out on small jobs obtained by the mission's employment service.

I happened into a job on an inpatient psychiatric unit at a children's hospital, and couldn't believe how directly it used my skills — counseling, leading small groups, helping kids process difficult emotions and experiences, teaching, working with a team, etc..

1) The people, including Father Greeley, who incessantly lament the gap between teaching and the reception of teaching are typically the same people who have for years worked to undermine the credibility of the Church's teaching office; 2) Their measure of whether the Church is listening is whether teaching is brought into line with their preferences; 3) The curia in Rome coordinates and corrects as necessary, but the teachers of the Church are the bishops, priests and catechists who too often find it easier to blame Rome than to do their job; 4) Catholic Americans are about 6 percent of the universal Church, and Greeley's think - for - themselves educated Catholics who are unhappy with church teaching, usually on matters sexual, are a much smaller part of that 6 percent.

On the other hand, job training has in the past been only a small part of the work of the schools.

Wouldn't it be nice, he writes, «if all of that eerily unsettled rural countryside were instead dense with diversified 100 - acre farmsteads, with their grain and hay rotations, livestock and pastures embedded in a landscape of protected forest, wetland, and prairie,» and in turn supporting an infinity of small villages, connected to the world via all our modern communications pipelines so that people could work at a variety of jobs, but remain connected to the real world by sheer immersion in a particular landscape.

I took all the decorating classes and love to decorate cakes, so when I got layed off my job last year I wanted to open my own cake shop, and its not as easy as you think at least were i live in pa you have to contact the health dept plus you have to make sure your house is zoned commerical contact your local borough office if your not you will have to have a hearing and it cost about 300 dollars for that, plus i couldn't have the bake shop in my house unless i had a separate kitchen for the bake shop, and one for my family plus no pets aloud, i am lucky enough that i have a rental house next to mine that i'm turning into a bakeshop but i have to turn it into a business, i've been working with the small business assoc. and the health dept plus there are permits i need, electric has to be updated and new lighting, plus the plummer has to do alot because i have to have a 3 bay sink and a grease trap, gas lines need to be ran for the oven,

If you don't have an electric citrus juicer, this hand juicer works just fine for small jobs like this one.

«The City Council targeted small business owners and low - income working families with a job - killing tax that will only worsen Seattle's income inequality...

«I think Wenger is slowly reverting back to the 4 -2-3-1 and has finally realised that this team isn't capable of adapting to the 4 -1-4-1 or that it isn't needed against the smaller teams» Wenger would never admit that unless his job was on the line (FA Cup formation change when 2 - 0 down) don't get too excited, he is only reverting to what works because his poster boy Wack Wiltshire isn't playing.

They forget that he is compromising himself by doing a job in CM, the work he puts in for such a small guy is tough..

What would happen if a woman with excellent credentials decided to pursue a men's job, even if it meant working at a small - time school?

Factors that would encourage more uptake include; better pay for the leave, being guarenteed job / career security, better information about the leave, better attitudes from employers and colleagues, splitting leave into smaller installments / part time working, among others.

While many smaller businesses work to try to get by without having a full time IT person or staff on hand, this forces you and your employees into the position of covering IT duties along with your other job responsibilities.