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But James struggled to find an employer that would schedule her around her day job, as well as child-care needs.
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Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
Pretty In Pink This sweet-faced girl grew up to take on the role of a lifetime, trading in bright-pink stripes for a sleeker wardrobe on the small screen for her day job.
—Grace Gavilanes, Peoplemag, 1 Apr. 2024
Berger’s interest in brain electricity was not to combat disease, though that was his day job as a physician, but to find a biological basis for his belief in telepathy.
—Giridhar Kalamangalam, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
Robbins was an old-fashioned daredevil whose day job was railroad mechanic.
—Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2024
Mengistu, 43, and Richard, 33, began as backyard home-brewers in 2016, still working their day jobs.
—George Solis, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2024
America is divided over major efforts to rewrite child labor laws
Last month, Jaime James of Minnesota picked up a second job as a bartender on top of her day job in health care.
—Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
The streets of Port-au-Prince normally bustle in the mornings with markets, students, street vendors, snarled traffic, and people on their way to work or out looking for day jobs.
—Amy Wilentz, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
No matter how gruelling her day job, her mental and artistic energies, and indeed the entirety of her voracious mind, are still woefully underemployed.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
Pretty In Pink This sweet-faced girl grew up to take on the role of a lifetime, trading in bright-pink stripes for a sleeker wardrobe on the small screen for her day job.
—Grace Gavilanes, Peoplemag, 1 Apr. 2024
Berger’s interest in brain electricity was not to combat disease, though that was his day job as a physician, but to find a biological basis for his belief in telepathy.
—Giridhar Kalamangalam, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
Robbins was an old-fashioned daredevil whose day job was railroad mechanic.
—Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2024
Mengistu, 43, and Richard, 33, began as backyard home-brewers in 2016, still working their day jobs.
—George Solis, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2024
America is divided over major efforts to rewrite child labor laws
Last month, Jaime James of Minnesota picked up a second job as a bartender on top of her day job in health care.
—Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
The streets of Port-au-Prince normally bustle in the mornings with markets, students, street vendors, snarled traffic, and people on their way to work or out looking for day jobs.
—Amy Wilentz, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
No matter how gruelling her day job, her mental and artistic energies, and indeed the entirety of her voracious mind, are still woefully underemployed.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
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“Day job.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/day%20job. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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