Sentences with phrase «worked at his father»

Ari Powell started working at his father's Toronto - based fountain drink concentrate distribution company during his first summer break from law school.

At this point, Dyson decided to go and work at his father's enterprise, and over the course of two years, he worked on a project from concept to just before manufacture - but it never went into production, because, as Dyson remembers it, it was too contemporary for the time (and it may be still be so today, he adds).

He worked at his father's firm while attending the Wharton School at UPenn, then joined the firm after graduation.

After graduating from the University of Calcutta in 1982, Dilip Shanghvi started working at his father's wholesale generic - drugs business, where he saw an opportunity to manufacture Lithosun, a drug that treated manic - depressive disorders and was unavailable in much of eastern India.

During this time, Melissa also worked at her father's pharmacy and developed a greater interest in health and well - being.

Right now, Spitzer is working at his father's real estate company, which isn't really helping his reputation much.

He didn't show up, though, and instead continued to go to work at his father's Soundview Health Center in the Bronx.

Peter (Eddie Marsan) works at his father's car dealership, supporting his wife and two kids; Oliver (Martin Freeman) is a successful real estate agent; Steven (Paddy Considine) is a thriving contractor with an eye towards nailing his personal trainer; and Andrew (Frost) is a big shot lawyer, and the one friend who had a dramatic falling out with Gary after some accident.

Shortly thereafter, he went to work at his father's Ford dealership in 1996, where he ultimately became general sales manager and part - owner.

Henry worked at his father's manufacturing firm in Orillia, Ont., and earned $ 142,400 annually.

In 2001, Henry and Carlena moved to Orillia so Henry could work at his father's new manufacturing company.

You play as pizza delivery ninja Gemma, a young girl working at her father's pizza place.

[2] Returning to Philadelphia after being discharged, he continued painting while working at his father's shoe factory.

A week later, while working at my father's grocery store, a woman approached me to compliment me on my performance, indicating that she had been part of the group from Knox.

I am the son of a criminal defense and family law attorney, and I spent my formative years working at my father's firm doing discovery work and helping with tasks like depositions, cross examinations, opening statements and summations.

At the start of his financial planning career, he worked at his father's firm and set up what's known as a key - man life insurance plan.

In the late»90s, Pete Galbraith got an invite to come work at his father's real estate firms.

Once, he turned 18 he moved to the Bay Area to work at his fathers business.

Not exact matches

Schultz talks affectionately about his father in his book, «Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time,» saying that Fred was an honest man who worked hard, played ball with his kids on the weekend and loved the Yankees.

Taking the advice and working closely with Gekko, Fox soon finds himself swept into a world of «yuppies», shady business deals, the «good life», fast money, and fast women; something which is at odds with his family including his estranged father and the blue - collared way Fox was brought up.

When his father broke his ankle at work in 1961, Fred couldn't go to work.

Ian MacGregor entered the oil and gas industry in 1969, splitting his time between studying mechanical engineering at the University of Calgary and doing shifts as a night watchman at the machine shop where his father worked.

There's a known history that we can work together well,» says Shannon, who is J.J.'s stepmother (and, at 42, only 16 years his senior) through her marriage to his father, Lululemon Athletica founder Dennis «Chip» Wilson.

Surveys show that at least half of working mothers and fathers say they're stressed out about work - life balance and how much time they spend with their families.

Sports can mirror our own failings at times — the low periods known as a losing effort at work and the wallowing colossal inability to rise to the challenge as a father.

Williams herself says she thinks she's more apt to take risks at work because of the greater sense of security she's gained by having her father more involved in her career.

He started working for his brother, Glenn, at the bakery their father founded in 1955.

Kenna became increasingly frustrated with the politics of signing with music labels, and at the same time, he also became aware that his father was working to save $ 10,000 to build a clean water well in his home village in Ethiopia.

He created Starbucks «to build a company my father would be proud to work at,» adding, «My inspiration comes from seeing my father broken from the 30 terrible blue - collar jobs he had over his life, where an uneducated person just did not have a shot.»

Only 4 percent of households fit the June Cleaver blueprint: working father, stay - at - home mom, and kids under 18.

Nineteen people were slain during the first full week of June — incidents accompanied by the discovery a mass grave with at least 18 bodies, reportedly the work of Damaso Lopez Nuñez, the father of Damaso Lopez Serrano.

Cha delivered newspapers, helped his father with cleaning work after school, and got his first job at McDonald's at age 16.

On his panel: his grandfather, Bill Draper, co-founder of Sutter Hill Ventures; his father, Tim Draper, cofounder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson; his sister, Jesse Draper, host of «The Valley Girl Show»; and his brother, Billy Draper, a Facebook alum who now works with his father at Draper Associates.

Chip Huggins, who is the son of the company's longtime CEO and who began working at See's for his father at age 14 and eventually left to run Joseph Schmidt Confections, asks, «If you put See's everywhere, what makes it so special anymore?»

The idea is an old one, dating at least as far back as the 1980s, to the work of R. Edward Freeman, now a professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, whom many consider the father of «stakeholder theory.»

Richard Kalb, who grew up with Blankfein and has remained friendly with him, said his father worked at the post office, too.

When Vivian Kleynhans was 16, her father, who had worked at a local fishing company for 20 years, lost his job.

Working as a sandwich maker at a Regina Quiznos franchise owned by his father, Boesch saw how frustrating and time - consuming the simple task of scheduling employees could be.

He received his first set of golf clubs from his father, who worked at Latrobe Country Club from 1921 until his death in 1976.

Here's a story of going from the bottom to the top: William C. Smith started working at Electrozad at the back door, part - time and with the minimal amount of interest typical to a teenager, in the same place his father worked.

However, their entrepreneurial spirit was sparked as young children watching their father work at IBM and Google.

Lemkau is from a finance family — his father worked at Merrill Lynch for a long time, his brother also works at Goldman Sachs, and his sister works at JPMorgan.

Given the demands of the job — not to mention being father to two boys under the age of 15 — how adept is he at separating work from home?

It seems like half of the fathers on our street worked at NASA.

Her father worked feverishly at his women's apparel business to support her homemaker mother and her three siblings.

At age 14, after his father died, Li had to work as a factory apprentice to support his family.

His resignation Thursday, after a decade at the helm of the company his father Izzy Asper founded, comes as Mr. Asper works on a potential bid to stay on as a key investor in CanWest.

Cohen, a 51 - year - old father of two, faces potential criminal charges and enormous legal fees because of his involvement with the president; there is widespread speculation that he «could end up cooperating with federal officials who are investigating him for activity that could relate, at least in part, to work he did for Mr. Trump,» the Times reported.

Born Oct. 21, 1913 in Edmonton, Alberta, he began working for his father's contracting business at an early age, becoming a partner in 1935.

One keeper of the flame is Jonathan Brandt, the resident Berkshire Hathaway analyst and 25 - year employee whose father worked at Ruane, Cunniff.