Sentence examples for patchy employment from inspiring English sources
Patchy employment is part of the problem.
His career became patchy, employment as a pathologist alternating with an early attempt to set up a computerised diagnostic centre or a scheme to market a new kind of baseball cap.
The biggest winners are likely to be those with patchy employment records, such as women who have left the workforce to bring up children, the unemployed or those doing part-time and low-paid work.
She tells him about her family, for which her description, "fucked up," is something of an understatement, and about her antagonistic relationship with the medical profession, her patchy employment record, the law degree she never finished, the shitty boyfriends she chose because their opinion of her chimed with her own, the kind boyfriends whose sympathy and patience made them insufferable.
First, the common sense: A pattern like this could suggest there's something underlying his patchy employment history other than a bad economy or bum luck.
It happens that the sister's fatal car wreck occurred while she was driving to a rehearsal dinner for her wedding to a New Age smoothie who loved her rather less than she loved him, but these mournful details come out between the lines of the brother's farcical account of his patchy recent employment history.
Despite the immense control that Uber exercises over them, these drivers are not even formally employed, a point on which the company is being challenged even in US courts, with their patchy record of employment protection.
