Sentences with phrase «years in a cubicle»

With over a decade of experience as a copywriter & blogger, «Scratchpad Brad» is back in the writing game after a few too many years in a cubicle slaving away on a team of overnight search zombies, for real!

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Before single - handedly bootstrapping AppSumo five years ago from the basement of an apartment in San Francisco's trippy Haight - Ashbury district, the 33 - year - old entrepreneur was a self - described «cubicle monkey» at Intel, employee number 30 at Facebook (he was fired) and employee number four at Mint (he quit).

So this year, don't hole up in your cubicle.

-- Pamela Slim, author of Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur «Guillebeau has been in the trenches for years, and in The $ 100 Startup he guides you step - by - step through how he and dozens of others have turned their passions into profits.

All those things are worthwhile and good goals, but looking around my church at the twentysomethings who are making a lot of big life decisions, rarely do I see an example of a young millennial who has gone the traditional route of a four - year college degree to find themselves in a cubicle on the 11th floor — or at least who are happy being there.

Those 10 years were laced with so many failures: quitting many times over, re-writing the edits of my re-write, working back in a cubicle, working back at the dream, trying to live in a retirement home to film a documentary, relationship debacles, a fire that almost burnt down my house and every other twist and turn of «God, where are you in this?»

For years, I felt frustrated and bitter that all my prayers of «Here I am Lord, send me» seemed to fall on deaf ears as I wasted away in cubicle life.

Thrower's offending took place at the Buttermarket shopping centre in Ipswich and was uncovered when a 17 - year - old boy saw someone's hand holding a mobile phone over the toilet cubicle he was in.

«It all means a lot more to me today than it did 25 years ago,» he says while seated in a small cubicle at station WXYT alter his show one recent morning.

Only five years ago, I was sitting in a cubicle of a large corporation without a clear plan of how to pursue my greatest passion.

I've been working out in my cubicle for years.

I spend a lot of time in my cubicle and have worked hard over the past year to turn it into a space that I am semi happy being in for 9 hours a day.

I worked in a cubicle for several years... I wish I would have thought to do this!

It's the year 1999, and Anderson (hacker alias: Neo) works in a cubicle, manning a computer and doing a little hacking on the side.

By day, the 25 year - old slacker sits behind a desk at a tiny cubicle in a low - paying job, trying to tune out the unreasonable demands of his overbearing boss (Lorna Scott).

Kind of beats the hell out that 9 - to - 5 gig, wearing a coat and tie, staring at the blank spot in your cubicle, and suddenly realizing you are only in your mid-30s and there is another 24 years before you get that company going away party, doesn't it?

In recent years, «Cyber Monday» has gained popularity with consumers looking to do all of their holiday shopping from the comfort of their couches (or cubicles) following the craziness of Black Friday.

Chances are you'll see many coworkers sneak in late to their cubicles a few times this year.

But it wasn't until many years later, when I suddenly became tired of working in the confines of a cubicle and a computer screen, and our then six - year - old «Labradork» Corbin got sick with cancer for the second time, that I went back to photography — the kind I loved when I was a kid, my original subjects and passion: dogs.

My dad builds outdoor houses for the stray cats we take in and he introduces a feature that I didn't see in these designs, which is some sort of escape route through the back of the house, which is useful if the cats get attacked by dogs while in their cubicles — not sure how relevant this would be in NYC, but perhaps an idea for next year's submissions.

I loved Spain so much that, fast - forward three years, I left the cubicle life in Washington DC and moved to Madrid to teach English for a year.

If I can keep one or two [people] from stepping on one then that's a good thing... [There are] people who are getting a bit restless, thinking, «I've been in this cubicle for 20 years, I feel like breaking out on my own.»

Ever since MacLeod sent the cartoon to Clayton and posted it on his blog, gapingvoid (www.gapingvoid.com) more than a year ago, the «blue monster» character has become an unofficial corporate mascot among many Microsoft employees, posted in cubicles, printed on business cards and T - shirts, and added to e-mail signatures.

After organizing off - kilter, guerilla - style shows in unlikely venues (a cubicle in an office building, a hotel room at Hotel Chelsea, his apartment, etc.) in the early»90s, Brown first opened up a brick - and - mortar space in Chelsea, before moving to the West Village where he eventually took over his neighbor's lease and expanded the gallery to consume and entire block — before vacating to move uptown this year.

This year's obstacle course of bright orange and wood might pass for a few collapsed hammocks, an comic artist's rendition of a supernova remnant, the plastic floral arrangement in that dreadful office cubicle down the hall, or maybe yet another summer Con Ed failure.

«I came from an engineering background, working in both a laboratory and cubicle,» continues Gombotz, who lived in a portion of the residential office space for three years before the entire building was converted exclusively to office space use.

In the most recent incident, a 43 year old Arizona lawyer and his client were shot and killed immediately following a mediation meeting with an unrepresented litigant over a $ 47,000 office cubicle contract.

If you're a normal person who wants to live out your golden years in literally any place that isn't a cubicle, you should invest in an IRA!

2011, while offering greatness, was a pretty tough year for us working in cubicles.

In recent years companies have started moving away from individual offices and cubicles in favour of a more social work settinIn recent years companies have started moving away from individual offices and cubicles in favour of a more social work settinin favour of a more social work setting.