Sentences with phrase «working long hours for»

He realised that working long hours for a boss was not enough to make a living and control his future.

The majority of delegates that come to New York come to party and soak up the night life under the guise of having to unwind after working long hours for peaceful resolutions.

The post notes that legal - aid lawyers «know the knife's edge, working long hours for low pay at organizations that are often underappreciated, underfunded, and undersupplied.»

And despite working long hours for little money the project was worth all the effort.

Pitfall: After working long hours for several decades, retirees suddenly stop working and do not enjoy retirement due to a lack of activity.

It was just about the financially toughest time in my life — editorial assistants always start out in the industry working long hours for tiny salaries and being surrounded by higher - up editors who are much more well - dressed and sophisticated.

I've always believed in the «work hard, play hard» motto and after working long hours for a number of weeks straight, I try to take some time off.

This was also validation and recognition of Iodine's team of nine, who'd been working long hours for many weeks — and who aren't so jaded by the media as I am.

Sanders echoed his own presidential campaign's message by noting that American people are «tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low - wage countries.»

In Bangladesh, workers, mostly women, work long hours for minimum wages that labour advocacy groups say keep those workers trapped in poverty and with few or no rights to organize to improve conditions.

Female - headed households are scarce not only on cash but on time, since no second adult is available to supervise the children and since many mothers must work long hours for low pay.

Growing up in San Jose, he worked long hours for his father's lawn service and played high school football.

UNICEF's recent report on the well - being of British children paints a depressingly familiar picture of parents who can not spend time with their children because they have to work long hours for meagre wages in order to make ends meet.

Massey, while saying that he believes people are not focused on his voting record, offered only that he worked long hours for many years and therefor often was unable to get to the polls.

PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: «Security guards in cultural institutions work long hours for low pay - but they are providing a vital service.

They work long hours for tiny stipends, serve as cheap labor for their advisers, and sometimes can't even tell you — within a standard deviation of years — when they anticipate graduating.

He worked long hours for relatively low pay and couldn't justify the time and money it took to buy three meals a day.

This results in the people who do have reasonable jobs having to work longer hours for less money, creating stress and lack of time.

They worked long hours for major fast fashion brands, earning minimal money in poor conditions.

Part - time plans usually fail either because of «hours creep,» where women wind up working longer hours for part - time pay, or because they don't provide the accommodation that they promise.

As a law student you'll have experience of long hours and competing deadlines, but are you willing to work long hours for the foreseeable future?

If you work long hours for the government, but you do not earn overtime because you are classified as «exempt,» the government might be stealing from you.

Not exact matches

«The days of working 60 - hour weeks for 30 years at the same company are long gone,» she says.

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Researchers at the University of Michigan who followed 2,300 adults for up to a decade reported in 2008 that even common work irritants interfere with good rest more than long hours, night shifts or fears about job loss.

It's a gruelling profession: most operators are on call 24 hours a day, and often work in isolated locations for long stretches.

Most operators are on call 24 hours a day, and often work in remote locations for long stretches of time.

The feature does constitute a notable shift for Uber, which has long touted a hands - off approach with its employees, leaving work hours and locations up to the drivers to choose.

«I've never really had the energy levels to endure long work hours for months or years at a time, so I needed an alternative,» he says.

Women have less time for on - the - job labor because they spend more time doing housework than their male counterparts — so they miss out when they're working in fields that reward long hours, based on a new National Bureau for Economic Research study.

Its biggest bottleneck: Finding the rare kind of talent willing to put in long hours for the opportunity to do challenging work with startups that may end up being the next Facebook.

The Times also reported that Uber has «experimented with video game techniques, graphics and non-cash rewards of little value that can prod drivers into working longer and harder — and sometimes at hours and locations that are less lucrative for them.»

Entrepreneurs tend to work long hours and stay glued behind computers for a majority of that time.

But the dramatic economic downturn in the world economy that hurt so many workers starting in 2008 only accelerated a decades - long trend toward more precarious jobs and the unstable hours, low wages, minimal benefits and insecurity that this work means for so many.

«It is the perfect job for very lazy people who don't mind really long hours and very hard work.»

That's 1 - 3 days working a few hours per day, or 1 - 3 weeks working just a few hours per week - stretching it over a longer period is often a better plan for additional objectivity and less burnout.

You'll be asked to meet up for hours - long lunches when one of your friends is on a sabbatical because they assume you're «not really working.»

Like Sachs, Whippman believes that «there are many reasons why life in America is likely to produce anxiety compared with other developed nations: long working hours without paid vacation time for many, insecure employment conditions with little legal protection for workers, inequality, and the lack of universal health care coverage, to name a few,» but she stresses that our «happiness - seeking culture» is also part of the problem.

You might not need special clothes or long hours («Undertake a commitment to try to sit three times a week for five to 10 minutes to begin with, working up to 20 every day,» Salzberg suggests), but you do need appropriate expectations and a good guide.

«It is good for businesses, as the employee may be capable of working longer hours.

While working 10 - hour days at Google, for instance, Marissa Mayer said that she took «a week - long vacation every four months.»

They are go - getters who want to start the day before their peers and competitors, who want to work long hours and have enough time for their personal lives too.

Entrepreneurs and startups are known for long hours and hard work.

His reasons for forming Hinterland echoed the problems outlined in the Jacobin story — long hours and the temporary nature of the work, which often required relocation.

The company is well known for a no - vacation policy that lets workers set their own hours and time - off schedule, as long as they get their work done.

There was the promise of empowerment for many women - predominantly those working long hours outside the home - who tended to avoid public transport over security concerns.

But for most of us, we work harder and longer hours than ever before, believing that by doing so, we'll find the happiness and success we want in our lives.

The idea of May 1 as a day for workers» rights was born in the US city of Chicago, where on May 1, 1886 hundreds of thousands of people walked off the job to protest long hours and harsh working conditions.

Everybody's working for the weekend, but is it best to get «er done in long, eight - hour stints?

According to Emma Seppala — science director for Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education — working harder and longer hours will not necessarily make you happy or successful.