Sentence examples for futile job from inspiring English sources

He found himself doing a futile job.

According to the former Administration official, she didn't want Fried to languish in a futile job: "It was a handshake.

The report, titled "The Bicoastal Economy," uses anecdotal evidence - such as auctions of family farms and accounts of futile job searches by laid-off factory workers - to analyze a number of recent trends that have attracted national attention.

Dreiser had a genius for factuality: he re-created the inner workings of a factory, a stock exchange, a luxury hotel; he was definitive on such things as fraudulent business dealings and the bitterness of a futile job hunt.

There would be no more futile job searches or punitive sanctions for the unemployed.

For many older workers, the prolonged and potentially futile job search may prematurely drive them out of the workforce and even further decrease the chance for re-employment later in life, found the study.

Free to travel for the first time, uneducated blacks headed for cities like Pretoria in an often futile search for jobs.

But many people had to leave almost immediately — and if there are no homes, then coming back, even for a job, is futile.

Mr. Laredo ended the program with a stylish and energetic account of Mozart's "Paris" Symphony, a compact, exuberant piece that Mozart wrote during a trip to Paris in a futile search for a job.

The good news: Pretty much everybody at that meeting agreed about the glutted market for young scientists, the lengthy training for academic jobs (largely futile for the majority who won't get them), hypercompetition for grant funding, and widespread reluctance to undertake risky research.

Mr. Tevlin, the Indiana student, said his exhaustive search for meaningful summer employment was so futile that he took a job cleaning toilets and septic tanks.