But we're not talking about a one-off job on one human.
A sleek George Clooney stars as Jack, an assassin lying low in a beautiful, remote Italian village, and busying himself with a specialist assignment: designing and building a rifle for a one-off job.
This may be true for a one-off job, but it is definitely not the case for the pre-cast industry that manufactures thousands of panels, where automated cutting and welding are used and the savings on steel could be substantial.
These skills are augmented by the help of Dr. Tim Butler's CareerLeader, which helps students understand and plan for a fulfilling career, not just a one-off job.
"Law & Order's" producers took a risk and immediately started casting local actors for the sort of one-off jobs that we rely on to subsidize our theater habit.
He takes on consultancies, such as for Daks and New Look, or one-off jobs like designing a BlackBerry pouch for Carphone Warehouse, to help sustain cash flow in his own company.
Mr. Gibson, too, takes a somewhat benign attitude toward stylists working one-off jobs, as does Julien Farel, who owns an eponymous salon on Madison Avenue.
Bumpas did some one-off jobs there but when business picked up he began to work full time.
Working at one of these can be great, as you'll meet people from all over the university, but if you're not looking for something quite so regular, there are normally one-off jobs as well.
More adventurous students are turning to www.studentgems.com, the potentially revolutionary recruitment website for students, set up last year, that cuts out the middle men, matching student skills with one-off jobs.
The company also introduced a way to monitor whether work is being done when it is claimed to be, by taking pictures of the worker and screen at random intervals.The exchanges are providing opportunities not just to do one-off jobs, but to build a business.
