"There's something about having a steady job," he said.
Less than a quarter were listed as having a steady job.
If having a steady orchestra job is like a marriage, then the festival is like a fling".
He seems about as interested in having a steady girlfriend as he is in getting another job.
"The idea of having a steady job is appealing," Robin Williams told Parade magazine of his decision to transfer from films back to the small screen.
Being a white man in South Africa used to mean having a steady job, a house, a car, a certain respectability.
He now plans to sell it off because, in spite of having a steady job, he can no longer keep up with the mortgage payments.
The mixture of consistency and variability, like having a steady beat but changing the melody, he said, is why "music is as powerful as it is".
Yet despite having a steady population of only about a thousand people, the place produced some 50 professional footballers, several of whom became full internationals.
"Settling down" generally comes with a set of financial expectations, from being able to afford a mortgage to having a steady income.
The vice president tried to pivot from the messy aftermath of the Libya attack to a broader defense of Mr. Obama's record, describing him as having a "steady hand" and a "clear vision".
