Arleen wants him to get a steady job.
I've worked on building sites and done driving jobs, but I'd love to get a steady job.
If you were fortunate enough to get a steady job, you protected it by behaving as responsibly as you could.
It was only when he got a steady job as a teacher at a college in upstate New York that he recovered enough pride to agree to return.
"Eventually, I'll have to get a steady job, but you want one that lets you come back here each summer," said Mr. Cuadrado, 25, from Jamaica, Queens.
"What a way to come home," said Sandy Tiemann, who in her six months as Mr. Gonzales's companion in St . Cloud Minn., had seen him get a steady job supervising janitors after years of casting about.
As it is, Canseco has 451 and will have to hit a bunch more this season, then get a steady job from the start of next season to have a chance to achieve his quest.
"When the companies pulled out, a lot of people said, 'I'm leaving, and if I can get a steady job I'm not coming back.' " In Elwyn Robinson's definitive "History of North Dakota," the author notes a recurring pattern of geographic disappointment: the land has always fallen short of people's expectations.
Mr. Evans, one of the great new jazz musicians from Philadelphia, can be a Monk-influenced bruiser with hiccuping accents and a way of stubbornly grinding a repeated note or phrase into the dust before he's done with it; Mr. Goldberg, who's got a steady job with the Joshua Redman quartet, is a tenacious post-bop player in a near-classicist style.
