The collective wage bill has increased by £64m in just 12 months, taking pre-tax losses at the Premier League clubs after debt servicing and player costs to a record £445m, which means that compliance with Uefa's new financial fair play (FFP) regime looks a huge task for some.
With low lights at the end of the tunnel, it looks an uphill task for Pakistani sportsmen to regain their long lost glory.
Colonel Landa, nicknamed the Jew Hunter, has come looking for hidden prey, a task for which he is, as he explains in a long verbal jag, eminently suitable.
And the way things look now that may be more a task for the Conservatives than Labour.
Other teachers in our study look on these conversations as a task for the school nurses.
After being called "wondrous," "heartbreaking" and "darned near perfect" in her last few roles, she is back to looking, a hard task which is even harder for black actors, given the available roles.
In "Eat, Pray, Love," the best-selling memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert, she describes discovering the Italian idea of pleasure as if it were a buried city: "During my first few weeks in Italy, all my Protestant synapses were zinging in distress, looking for a task.
Maintaining such a high level of profitability looks like a tough task for Exxon.
When will our thinking catch up with the new reality?" Anyone looking for a job or tasked with hiring must wonder what this means for them.
If you identify those times when you were truly in the flow--engaged and successful--you can then take those attributes and, like Sheri, bring them to the task of looking for a job.
