How to Use day job in a Sentence

day job

noun

• Neither the band nor the byline is her day job, though.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
• In 2016, the three musicians met a couple of times a month to record in the midst of their day jobs.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• In 2020, Rene was stuck at home and burned out from her day job in mental health.
  — Christina Tkacik, Baltimore Sun, 16 Aug. 2022
• That answer may have nothing to do with your day job, and that’s OK.
  — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Nov. 2022
• In 2017, after the books began to take off, Herron quit his day job.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
• His day job has had him on the road for more than a decade, traveling for half the year in 10- and 11-day stretches.
  — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• Who better to have in the lineup than someone whose day job is tossing folks to the ground.
  — Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2023
• On top of their day jobs, the two nuns adopted four children and fostered at least 70 more.
  — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• Quitting your day job is far from the first step in taking charge of your career.
  — Jennifer Magley, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• Thank God practicing law is our day job for both of us.
  — Arden Farhi, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2022
• Some have pushed off day jobs or moved near to the Washington, DC, courthouse.
  — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
• For those first years Constantine didn't quit his day job.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2023
• The Closer and got called back to his day job sooner than expected.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2022
• There's a lot of poking fun at the bureaucracy, a lot of poking fun at sort of the day-to-day job of it.
  — CBS News, 13 July 2022
• Looking at the reaction of the audience, many felt Cousins should stick to his day job.
  — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2023
• Loading them was no one-day job and in the melee, Patches (Mrs. giraffe), kicked Smith down more than once.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2022
• Walter would continue to live in Chicago and tend to his day job.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2022
• Her fortunes soon changed after a fateful run-in with the Wayans brothers at her day job.
  — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
• The odds of winning Mega Millions are roughly 1 in 303 million, so don’t make plans to quit your day job just yet.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 30 July 2022
• All of that work kept him from his day job, cutting hair about 40 minutes down the valley, and drained his savings.
  — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2022
• When Corbin lands the job of his dreams, Georgia is able to quit her day job and concentrate on music.
  — Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2022
• But then working in The Crown’s costume department is not just any day job.
  — Alice Newbold, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2023
• Griffin’s decision to give up his day job for his dream looks wiser by the day.
  — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2023
• But my day job is to write things here at National Review.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 19 Mar. 2022
• What was that like to balance your musical career and your day job?
  — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 9 July 2022
• Olivia is a painter with a day job at a family investment firm, where Nathan is her boss.
  — The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
• Not bad for what started a side gig to her day job working for the family business.
  — Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 4 Nov. 2022
• Brewster, who is Black, quit his day job to focus on the foundation.
  — Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
• Trevor Noah returned for his third year as host of the proceedings, having left his day job at The Daily Show.
  — EW.com, 6 Feb. 2023
• The volunteers are taking time off from their civilian day jobs to work around the clock for 6 days, sleeping 1-2 hours a night.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024