I'm gainfully employed

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

"Anybody who works with the Green Bay Packers can send the bill over to me and I'll be happy to make amends, now that I'm gainfully employed, at least for the time being.

CM: I had no idea, all I knew is that I wanted to do this, what I'm doing now, which is amazing to me, that I'm standing here and I'm gainfully employed.

It has been four years since I was gainfully employed.

Yes, I am gainfully employed, and I am grateful for this.

By the time I was marrying, in the '60s, I was gainfully employed in New York, at this newspaper in fact, and could have shopped anywhere I chose, but loyalty took me back to the Basement.

Instead, he told me that whenever I was gainfully employed, we'd talk about it then.

In fact, I am gainfully employed twice over, working for both a marketing firm and as a server in the evenings and on weekends.

My parents, who had immigrated to the United States years earlier, were unsure of what a "self-designed major" meant, and simply hoped I would be gainfully employed with health insurance upon graduation.

End result: I haven't been gainfully employed since Barack Obama took office.

This is all true, of course — I'm lucky to be gainfully employed, and glad my work expenses do get covered.

Eventually, he left — he's gainfully employed, so I didn't leave him in the cold — but I stayed, though I had to watch Andy Murray's victory speech at home.