Sentence examples for lousy career from inspiring English sources

But why do their lousy career choices and paper-thin skin have to be the journalist's problem?

On Sunday, the art crowd car-pooled up to Greenwich, Conn., where Nate Lowman's aptly titled exhibition "I WANTED TO BE AN ARTIST AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY CAREER" opened at the Brant Foundation.

Sanders spoke for different groups of Americans who felt disenfranchised: young people with heavy college debt and lousy career prospects, blue-collar workers who retained their Democratic identity, progressives (many of them professionals) who found Obama and Clinton too moderate.

When I telephoned Mr Winner, he couldn't have been more friendly, jovially announcing he was recording our conversation, before adding he would crush my lousy little career in one fell swoop should my suspect shorthand let me down.

—Herb Caen Take motherhood: Nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

Why does a man who apparently made such great deals when it comes to his financial affairs make such lousy deals in his political career?

Questions that should be, and are, deeply political have been taken as private problems -- how to best cope with a bad economic environment; how to pick a shrewd career path given lousy choices.

"You don't throw a man's career away for one lousy season," said the alumna Linda Ashurst.

Being an actor doesn't make you an airhead; nor did you choose performing as a career because you were lousy at school.

And, according to the Granger memoir, when Ms. Simmons refused to sign a seven-year contract with RKO, the studio Hughes had bought in 1948, he threatened "to put her in three lousy productions that would ruin her career".

That night, he shot 36 of 63 from the field — fadeaways and dunks were his specialties — and missed only 4 of 32 foul shots, a career game for a lousy free-throw shooter.