Sentences with phrase «year writing career»

In my 17 year writing career, I have had the opportunity to review thousands of self - written resumes.

Over her eighteen - year writing career, Louise Voss has had eleven novels published — five solo and six co-written with Mark Edwards: a combination of psychological thrillers, police procedurals and contemporary fiction — and sold over 350,000 books.

Born Salvatore Lombino, he clocked up an impressive number of pseudonyms in his 50 + year writing career - during the 50s he wrote eight books under the name Richard Marsten, two books as Hunt Collins and two as Curt Cannon, in addition to starting on his now famous 87th Precinct series under the name Ed McBain.

After a 25 - year writing career, during which she has published 29 novels ranging from contemporary romance to police procedurals, the first instalment of her Josie Bates series, Hostile Witness, has found a new reader: Google's artificial intelligence.

Not exact matches

I wrote my first article and essentially began my second career as a writer when I was 39 years old.

In my compressed work year, I did my first TED talk, gave a keynote speech at American University, programmed and designed my first app, made TV appearances on Al Jazeera America and other outlets, and joined multiple startup advisory boards - all while being my son's primary caretaker and keeping my writing career going.

Pierlot wrote a paper for the CD Howe Institute in 2011 showing that a person with a salary of $ 75,000 at the end of a 35 - year career would accumulate more than $ 1.4 million in savings through a defined - benefit plan (wherein the pensioner is paid a set income based on past earnings and years of service, mostly confined to the public sector these days) compared to $ 674,711 for someone with no pension but a maxed - out Registered Retirement Savings Plan.

And over the course of 7 years, my writing side hustle turned into a new career that earned 10 times more than my day job.

The legendary country singer and entertainer is reported to be worth between $ 450 million - $ 500 million during her career which spans 50 years covering singing, acting, writing and business launches including the theme park.

«A 20 - year - old woman today would lose $ 418,800 in wages over her career compared with a male counterpart,» writes Harris.

When I started my freelance writing career years ago, clients repeatedly beat my rates down.

Not until after I took a major risk in my career of quitting my job as a banker and spending two years researching and writing my second book did my mentor take me under his wing and open up for me a valuable stream of knowledge, people and opportunities that have inspired my journey ever since.

I spent the earlier years of my career as an analyst and software developer, writing business process automation software at a Fortune 500 supply chain company, Expeditors International and working for my family's wealth management and financial consulting business.

When I sat down last week to write out my goals for the year, the most audacious goals I could think of weren't career accomplishments...

Although we've known one anoehtr for many years and have worked together on numerous stories you as writer, I as publicist I didn't realize the scope of your writing career until now!

but considering: a) his divorce * preceded * this crisis of faith (& therein career, education, etc.) b) he is marketing this paradigm shift rather than simply experiencing it c) he appears to be reciprocating the recent rash of «i followed the bible for a year» model of book - writing & simply applying it to atheism

Yet two years ago, when I decided to write a book about a career spent helping people tell their stories, I had absolutely no intention of sharing my own.

We had our first three tinies in four years and then four years after that we added one more baby to the mix right at the time when my writing began to reach more people and my husband's career also became more demanding and we have never been so happy and so tired and so everything all at once.

Over her 50 year career, she wrote numerous plays, movies, and television shows, published seven autobiographies, three books of essays and several acclaimed books of poetry.

I do not give up on the hope that, after some years of penance, a chastened Rembert Weakland might write a reflective memoir, having by then discovered, please God, a measure of the wisdom that was so conspicuously absent from a brilliant career built upon prideful foundations that now, through a combination of tragedy and farce, lie in ruins.

In light of Lewis's long and distinguished career, encompassing so many contributions to process philosophy, many readers may have forgotten that Ford began his intellectual career as a Tillichian, writing his dissertation at Yale over thirty - five years ago on «The Ontological Foundation of Paul Tillich's Theory of Religious Symbol,» and publishing his first several scholarly articles in the early 1960s in distinguished journals like the Journal of the History of Philosophy and the Journal of Religion on aspects of Tillich's thought.

I'm pretty stoked about the possibility of meeting Miller, whose writing style and publishing career has inspired me so much over the past few years.

Funny, for the first 20 years of my 30 - year wine writing career, I don't recall winemakers carrying on like that, except perhaps in France.

When I was in my mid-twenties and a few years into my food career, I wrote a fan letter to Julia Child.

Patterson also wrote a book, Accepted: How the First Gay Superstar Changed WWE, which discussed his career, detailed his relationship with partner Louie Dondero of 40 years, touched on controversies, and gave a glimpse into the life of one of WWE's first power brokers.

His career highlights at S.I. include road trips in search of sports on the equator, the world's most dangerous sport and Roman gladiators as the first sports superstars, a lengthy meditation on Don King's hair, the second - ever descent of Africa's Zambezi River, a weighty essay on the 580 - pound sumo wrestler Konishiki, an investigation into the questionable around - the - world run by Robert Garside, a look inside the mind games at the 1987 world chess championship between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in Seville, Spain, three weeks in the Sahara covering the 2002 Paris - to - Dakar Rally, a trudge through Panama's Darien jungle retracing Vasco Núñez de Balboa's 1513 expedition, and a journey into the world of Jeopardy! His essay on George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees» line of succession was called the «scoop of the year» in the 2008 Houghton - Mifflin collection The Best American Sports Writing.

and i wont slate or write off chambers or gabriel just yet because if i remeber correctly koscielny eas disaster for the first 3 years of his arsenal career but now look at what he turned out to be..

first of all im already getting tired of people writing that SANTI is getting on that he is nearly done, i find this unbelievable especially in today, s context, everybody knows or they should that improved diets, sports sciences players have longer playing careers only today it was announced that francesco totti had just signed for one more season he is nearly 40 years old, also i don, t see how Sissoko on his own could be responsible for newcastle, s relegation??

But you know, «There's Only Way to Win» was written 20 years ago, and Knight's career ended in mediocrity.

Arsenal fan John Cross of The Mirror newspaper writes that the 26 - year - old striker is considering his options after coming to the conclusion that a fresh start somewhere else would be beneficial to his career.

Pre baby days, I spent five years building a career as freelance journalist in Atlanta, writing for magazines, alternative weeklies and covering politics for a bilingual Hispanic newspaper.

About a year ago, I wrote a piece about how my son was shifting (youth sports) careers as an 11 - year old.

After a 13 year full - time public relations / writing career, Jamie K. now has the privilege to be home with her 4 - year - old son and 2 - year - old daughter.

Before her writing career, she worked in the medical field for 21 years.

Wish I would have thought of doing the research or had come across this blog, had you written it in 2013 when a family court judge saw no value to my being a stay at home mom full time for 9 years and awarded ne no spousal support and a pitiful amount for child support despite my having zero income and no career to go back to once my ex left, suddenly.This is a fantastic template to argue in court for stay at home moms seeking support everywhere that sacrificed their education, career and opportunities and stayed home with the kids.May pop some people's perspective back where it should be!

Been writing code since I was 15, now in my 10th year of doing it as a career.

Imagine you're a man in Wisconsin and your sweet little precious twenty one - year - old girl tells you she wants to move to NY to pursue a career in acting and writing.

«In the NHS currently, the average full time career for those taking a pension is only 18 years and it seems unrealistic to suggest that pension scheme design should be based on the assumption that a predominantly female workforce would need to work full time 48 - year careers in future to receive a full pension,» he wrote.

Total befuddlement at quantum mechanics during his junior year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology led John to switch from a planned career in physics to science writing.

In her nomination letter, Hassol wrote that in one year, «Mann has done more to engage with the public on science than most active scientist - communicators do in an entire career.»

The EMBL group leader positions are meant to equip early - career researchers to explore biology's frontiers during nine luxurious years unencumbered by grant writing.

I've written recommendation letters for former undergrads several years after their graduation, served as an employment reference, and given career advice long after someone has moved on from my lab.

Like many young scientists these days, after embarking on a research career, I realised that although I was fascinated by all aspects of science — especially my own field of ecology — I did not want to spend the next 30 years writing grant proposals, carrying out experiments, and publishing technical articles.

However, as I thought about what specifically I would write about, I quickly realized that all significant issues pertaining to the recruitment, retention, and subsequent career paths followed by people of color have already been written about, discussed, and analyzed over the years ad nauseam, in various forums, by many different organizations.

To help the roughly 40 % of postdocs who don't wind up working in industry find jobs after their postdocs, Pond says, NIBR is ramping up career development over the next year, implementing programs and workshops to instill «soft skills» including scientific presentation, scientific writing, and grant writing.

After trying many different approaches to help students become the best they could be, this is my advice to you: at the end of each year (sometime in December) have your students set goals for experiments / writing, career development exercises, conferences to attend, etc..

The study provides fresh and generalizable evidence that «there is probably a serious problem with mental health in academia,» writes Frederik Anseel, a professor at King's College London who co-authored a study published last year showing widespread risk of mental health issues among Ph.D. students in Belgium, in an email to Science Careers.

Early in their careers, the duo spent seven years writing software that would let them nail down the wobble with accuracy.

They have written on passion and on managing career advice overload for Inside Higher Education, co-written a textbook chapter, taught multiple sector - specific courses, consulted on diversity issues at companies and organizations throughout the country, and held numerous counseling and program development positions in their over 20 years of professional experience.

Dr Perlmutter IS right and years of science and research back up his claims along with true testimonials from real people - have you even read the book??? like I said before people like you who are not willing to give up gluten carbs and sugars are going to be the first ones to come on here with skepticism and claims that this is just another «fad diet - «newsflash Will this is a lifestyle and the followers are not in a cult they are real people who want to take charge of their health and live to see their great grandchildren and still be sound in their minds its fine to have questions but to come on here and insult this fine doctor who has helped so many people throughout his career and has written a New York times best seller to educate and help so many more people just makes you sound absurd and immature - he is speaking the truth everything we've been told about nutrition is a lie to profit the wheat industry, doctors and pharmaceutical companies because as long as people keep eating the wrong foods and getting sicker and fatter they will all profit.