I beg for work from semester to semester, and constantly have to watch my words, actions and body language to avoid a career-ending slip-up.
Ellis himself pops up, along with several other writers who have come to LA to beg for work, including a tramp who turns out to be Salman Rushdie.
As a boy, I remember watching beaten men beg for work at the bolted gates of a local mill while behind bars of iron, a harried manager picked from an uneven line the lucky few who'd earn a bit of dosh while working like a horse in a shuck.
Drunken men stumble down the dirt boulevards, begging for work.
To appear to be begging for work in front of a journalist merely continues this shtick.
"When interest rates are low, contractors are begging for work, construction workers are lining up to find jobs, let's rebuild America," he said this week.
No sooner had the bubble burst than many former masters of the universe were begging for work.Indeed, companies do not even know how to define "talent", let alone how to manage it.
The guards came running up to drag Chenayya back, but the big man said, "I have two thousand workers, and not one of them wants to work, and here this man is, down on his knees, begging for work.
By 2012 some Chinese shipyards were sitting totally idle, says Li Sheng of HIT Marine, a Chinese shipbroker.As banks retrenched, private-equity firms such as Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, the Carlyle Group and KKR saw an opportunity in the low valuations of existing ships and in the shipyards begging for work.
When he's fired from his job for, in essence, being too annoying, Scotty goes on a downward spiral, begging for work at every video store in town and obsessively courting a pretty film fan (Tyler Gannon) despite her increasingly humiliating rejection of him.
Ukrainian officials point to a series of actions sought by the United States: closing Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear accident; destroying old missile silos, and putting up high-tech security barriers to keep nuclear physicists who are begging for work from sharing information with the wrong countries.
