Sentences with phrase «worked as a salesman»

Co-owners Chuck Carvette and Peter Brooks started the company in 1981 after working as salesmen in the corn - refining industry.

In the spring of 1997, around the time that Hughes, who worked as a salesman for a video company, abused three boys at once in his office — he molested the boys one at a time while the other two watched — the mother of another victim was folding her son's underwear and putting it in a drawer when she saw, hidden among the clothes, a letter written by her son to his girlfriend.

I worked as a salesman in a garment shop.

Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin reported insignificant outside earnings in 2012, in which he stopped doing mortgage work for Citizens Bank and began working as a salesman for Monolith Solar.

Plus Jamie has found success working as a salesman in random department stores.

I got the job as a ticket seller, which came naturally since I had been working as a salesman before leaving Sweden in 2010.

I have been in the automotive community for the past 10 years working as a salesman and account manager.

Not exact matches

One of the best salesmen I have ever worked for told me to never sell on price, because there is always somebody out there who will pass an inferior offering as the same as your product but for a much lower price.

He has worked as a car salesman from the age of 17, and also worked as a holiday rep in Ibiza.

Still, he made the best of it, peeling potatoes in his father's restaurant as a kid, and later working as a car salesman and a bail bondsman.

Then, while working as a paint salesman, Palmer quickly got his game back in order and won the 1954 U.S. Amateur Championship.

Fisk worked successively as a circus hand, waiter, peddler, dry - goods salesman, stockbroker, and corporate official.

With undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University, Blankfein worked briefly as a tax lawyer before joining J. Aron & Co. as a currency salesman in 1982.

Her father lost his job as a heavy - equipment salesman for Westinghouse and was never to work again.

Young Dwight L. Moody had recently moved to Boston to work as a shoe salesman for his uncle.

In his youth, Clive, too, had gone to work in London, as a lighter salesman, before returning to the family business.

That Friday he worked shifts at both of his jobs as a salesman, at Dillard's department store and in the appliance department of Best Buy.

But there was no work for them in sports when they finished college, so John taught high school for three years and Pat worked as a copper salesman.

He has never regretted that decision, and he is now 19 and working as a full - time salesman selling computer parts.

This 90 - minute feature film by Oscar - winning director, Danis Tanovic, tells the true story of a former Nestlé salesman who took on the company with the help of IBFAN when he realises that babies are dying as a result of his work pressuring doctors to promote formula.

Returning to the Chicago area, he began working as a drapery salesman.

«Tigers» is based on the true story of a former Nestlé baby milk salesman, Syed Aamir Raza, who took on the corporate giant after realising that babies were dying as a result of his work to pressure doctors to promote the formula to their patients.

After Zhainab encourages him to apply for a sales position at Lastavita Foods, which he gets despite having a failed interview, Ayan begins working there as a salesman head for his town.

Tigers is a new film by Oscar - winning director Danis Tanovic based on the true story of a former Nestlé baby milk salesman in Pakistan called Syed Aamir Raza taking on the industry with the help of IBFAN (the International Baby Food Action Network) when he realises that babies are dying as a result of his work pressuring doctors to promote formula.

The complaint portrays Senator Skelos as eager to use his political influence to generate income for his son, who has worked in recent years as a title insurance salesman.

I work fulltime as a salesman and I am also in the army reserves.

Currently working as a door salesman for lawn care company.

Our hero continues quixotically reporting for work as an insurance salesman — in an office where casual dress is now welcome every day and a volunteer is sought to serve as CFO — at least until a suicide lands on his windshield at his rooftop parking spot.

He worked as a farm implement salesmen in his late teens before turning his hobby of amateur theatricals into a lifelong profession.

His father worked as a door - to - door salesman but then quit to work as a carpenter.

Irish stage, film and TV actor Colin Blakely worked as a sporting goods salesman before turning to acting in his late 20s.

Supported himself by working as a double glazing salesman while working for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

The son of professional ballplayer Walter Hart, William Sterling Hart attended the University of Pittsburgh, then worked as a clothing salesman before entering show business.

But Last Days works only when it deviates from this pattern, as it does in a hilarious scene depicting the rock star's friendly yet indifferent agreement to buy space in the yellow pages from a clueless door - to - door salesman (Thadeus A. Thomas, the movie's only perfectly cast actor), or when it focuses on other members of Blake's entourage, or when the camera retreats at a snail's pace from the mansion for what feels like eternity.

Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors» new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door - to - door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu's own silent classic I Was Born, But... to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.

I loved the handheld camera work and how each salesman is depicted as a nuanced, dramatic character.

Neeson plays an ex-cop who changed jobs ten years ago to work as an insurance salesman.

The complexities of patriarchy and corruption in Iranian society form the backdrop to this and all of Farhadi's films, and while The Salesman is not quite as good as his other Oscar - winner, A Separation, it's a very strong piece of work.

The film sees the likeable duo as recently laid off salesman who decide to comfront technology for the first time by conning there way into working at internet giant Google.

We follow the machinations of the salesmen as they try to work through these developments.

The Commuter (PG - 13 for profanity and intense violence) Liam Neeson stars in this suspense thriller as an insurance salesman who finds himself caught up in a criminal conspiracy on his way home from work after being offered $ 100,000 by a mysterious stranger to uncover the identity of a passenger hiding on the train.

Danny DeVito and Richard Dreyfuss starred as feuding aluminum siding salesman in 1963 Baltimore, and once again Levinson demonstrated his flair for capturing the vernacular of a particular species of American male, effusive about work, food and pop culture, clueless about the women around them.

Both Tom Cruise and Adam Sandler are actors who worked outside of their comfort zones in Anderson films — Cruise as a misogynistic self - help guru in Magnolia, and Sandler as an emotionally unstable plunger salesman in Punch - Drunk Love.

But Krasinski's work as paper salesman Jim Halpert elaborated beyond the original comic idea of glancing at the camera in pained recognition, and became an essential part of adding to the show's deafening, deadpan awkwardness.

The trout dinner, planned at a classical concert where Ross's cellist daughter is to perform, is hosted by the doctor and his painter wife; the guests are an out - of - work salesman (Fred Ward), who stopped off at the greasy spoon where the waitress works before going fishing, and his wife (Anne Archer), who dresses as a clown for children's parties and previously turned up at the hospital where the doctor works, after being stopped and sexually harassed by the cop.

The most exciting episodes include Turner turning down an offer to sell his life's work for 100 thousand pounds (a princely sum in the mid-1800s), getting his daguerreotype photograph taken by a swell salesman, and flirting with a widowed boarding house owner (Marion Bailey), where he frequently stays as «Mr. Mallard.»

The always enjoyable Bobby Cannavale gets a juicy supporting role as Chili, Ginger's «loser» boyfriend, while comedian Louis C.K. turns up as the «nice guy» alternative whose genial persona and line of work — sound system salesman — strikes both sisters as a step up from Chili.

From George Washington's birthday to the Fourth of July, the nation's salesmen long have worked at persuading us that buying is as sacred to the American way of life as the national anthem.

What can I say, the General Sales Manager, Murray, is an incredible person to work with, as well as Will our salesman.

Victorville Mitsubishi made my first car buying experience as smooth as possible.Jairo, my salesman, was the easiest to work with out of every salesmen I spoke to in Victorville, and believe me I shopped around.