Sentences with phrase «working menial jobs»

Donald got a jump - start in the business while he was in college in the 1960s, working menial jobs at his father's lower - middle class apartment complex in Cincinnati.

As an immigrant working menial jobs, you often feel unseen and unrecognized.

While these arrangements may sound sleazy to some, for many students, these unconventional relationships are preferable to working menial jobs that still leave them without enough cash to make ends meet.

This is true even if you work a menial job.

He's disappointed that she has to work menial jobs and they no longer live in an upscale place since he stopped fighting.

They work menial jobs in the daytime and look forward to their nightly performances before a fairly large group of mostly young people — who are supportive of the six comics called The Commune.

They're ostracized, forced to work menial jobs because they won't pass the criminal background check required for most office job and are therefore in some cases, forced to resort back to the crimes they committed.

I once worked a menial job where I had to dress up in a suit, and my good buddy liked to embarrass me, when we bopped into a shop for donuts and a coffee, by asking me, «What sort of donut would you like, Doctor Caleb?»

Not exact matches

GALLOWAY: You were working sweeping floors in South Central L.A., you were doing menial jobs working at a gas station.

While well - paying, career jobs in industry and large corporations decline, the number of low - paying menial jobs and part - time jobs increases, so that almost anyone with the capacity to work can find something.

These new developments compel the attention of the American religious community, for they are now affecting millions of workers, their families and their communities in the form of massive plant closures, huge movements of industrial capital overseas and a downshifting of the work force into lower - paying and more menial jobs — when such jobs can be found.

Even if they did find menial jobs, Okies had to work twice as hard to prove themselves.

Two - thirds of the students supported themselves wholly or in part by working at the menial jobs traditionally available.

They say working in the sex industry avoids employment in menial and poorly paid jobs.

A proud man, Massoud has literally been working overtime to keep up appearances; he has two menial jobs but changes into a suit in a hotel bathroom before returning home every day.

PLOT: Aidan Bloom (Zach Braff) is a struggling actor trying to juggle the responsibilities of fatherhood with the pursuit of his acting dreams of glory - while his patient wife (Kate Hudson) supports the family working at a menial data entry job.

But, by day, they have to support themselves by working soul - crushing menial jobs.

Like his creator, Chinaski swings through a wide variety of low - paying, non-creative, menial jobs (working at a bike shop, a pickle factory, as an ice deliveryman and janitor) and a smaller handful of codependent, quasi-abusive monogamous relationships (embodied here by Marisa Tomei as a fling, and Lili Taylor as on - again / off - again girlfriend Janet).

Ryden is particularly lucky in that, while she might not be able to get a job in the field she wants, she can find the most menial, temporary work imaginable, with the added benefit of being able to quit at any given time.

We have seen all too clearly the devastating cost of letting children enter adulthood unprepared, whether measured by the number of people in prison, on drugs, unemployed, under - employed, or working multiple menial jobs in the hopes of providing a better future for their own kids.

While some college kids held menial summer jobs, Tyler worked as a financial representative for Northwestern Mutual.

Pagani worked at Lamborghini for a while, in menial jobs.

Nan and Pingping Wu have brought their young son to America, worked hard at menial jobs, opened a restaurant, bought and paid off a house in only a handful of rather unremarkable years.

Leaving his studies, he takes on a variety of menial jobs while Pingping works for a wealthy widow as a cook and housekeeper.

Literary history is full of wonderful writers who worked regular jobs, often quite menial jobs, while they worked on their writing.

Working through the night to write a book while slaving away at a menial day job is an obligatory component of every romantic self - published success story.

So, the President felt that these folks that are often working two or three menial jobs while waiting to get hired on within their field should get a break.

Her family escaped to England after Kristallnacht, and she eventually found her way to New York, where she studied at the Art Students League while working at menial jobs to support herself.

It adds up to a rebuttal against «the predominance of material on African Americans as enslaved people or working in menial jobs or other stereotypical situations,» as Cornell's Katherine Reagan says — these images show African Americans asserting their normality and freedom after the distorting horrors of slavery.

Never leave out work experience, even if you have to list menial part - time jobs, unpaid internships, or volunteer work on your resume.

My professional creed includes: • Pride in the quality of my work, and a willingness to personally perform even the most menial tasks to remove project obstacles and get the job done.

In some places, the apprentices are paired with more experienced mechanics, and they begin their apprenticeship program by carrying out little tasks and menial jobs, working their way up to learning more, and eventually become certified a journeyman or mechanic.

Most of these jobs require menial work and are entry - level.

It makes sense people with these job roles would be tasked with the most menial work, regardless of their gender.)

The job of an apprentice carpenter is to help lead carpenters in performing menial tasks such as handing tools and cleaning spaces for work.