The phrase "a makeshift job" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a task or work that is done in a temporary or improvised manner, often due to a lack of resources or time.
Example: "Due to the tight deadline, we had to settle for a makeshift job on the project, knowing it wouldn't be perfect."
Alternatives: "a temporary solution" or "an improvised task".
Combine the ideas of tape, glasses and nerds, and most people come up with a makeshift repair job resulting from bullying.
He doesn't greatly care for it, but then he didn't greatly care for his career at the hated BBC, which foundered because of his propensity for playing too much mournful music on Radio 3, nor for his subsequent makeshift jobs as a removal man, shoe salesman or sash-window replacer.
In New York, he had been an absent father and abusive husband who worked erratically at makeshift jobs.
He received a payoff of £900 and no pension, forcing him to work at various makeshift jobs until he was 74.
Other qualities that particularly engage me are his love of the underdog and the marginalized (drifters; people working menial, makeshift jobs; porn stars) and his obsession with courage.
Al Pacino and Lilu did a phenomenal job at setting up a makeshift area for where they would cook us dinner.
"Assassination attempts are a part of the job," said Abdul Majid Khogyani, the new Wardak governor, seated in a makeshift office in his compound's frigid courtyard, the only place untouched by the bombing.
The designer quit her job when her company contracted an order out to "a makeshift factory at the back of a house … when I say a "factory", it was just a built-up shed," she said.
Migrants walk in a makeshift camp in Calais (Image: AP) Are immigrants really taking our jobs?
Awaiting the results, Jesselyn got a job in a furniture store that overlooks an eerie Langley Park shrine, a makeshift memorial to a triple homicide.
