For a while, up to 400 letters a day flowed in from the public, 10 to 1 favor able, and Mrs. Mitchell had to hire herself a press secre tary.
It's the perfect expression of our globalised culture from someone who has evidently spent time in so many different cities of the world she could conceivably hire herself out as a travel guide.
Booted out of her position as the chief medical examiner of Virginia, Scarpetta is reduced to living in a cottage in Delray Beach and hiring herself out as a consultant.
But now she plans to cure her fame addiction by hiring herself a publicist - she thinks probably Matthew Freud - to make her famous so she can get it out of her system.
In the story's present tense, she is in her mid-30s, living with her 11-year-old twin sons in the upstate New York town where she was raised, and occasionally turning her paranormal gifts to modest advantage by hiring herself out as a diviner; when asked, she'll dowse for water in her neighbors' fields.
She took stock of all the connections she still had in the schmatte trade and realized she could make a fine living hiring herself on a contract basis.
With Everso, she is the president and CEO, essentially hiring herself to produce, write all the songs, sing and play acoustic and electric guitars on Tears, Lies, and Alibis.
Taking out Hillary Clinton's salary — we didn't think it was fair to include her since she didn't hire herself — the median annual salary for both men and women, regardless of how much of the year they worked, was identical: $40,000.
The woman who heads the household earns the little she can by hiring herself out as a day labourer in the fields". Later, sitting in the shade of a pine tree, 'Malekaota Maanela, the 51-year-old woman whose family has been categorized as ultra-poor, speaks.
