Sentence examples for practical jobs from inspiring English sources

Nicholas D. Kristof's column about a year abroad for incoming college students will make excellent global vagabonds, not educated and productive citizens prepared for practical jobs.

We need to propose a concrete, practical jobs program that is completely understandable and directly addresses the number one issue on the minds of ordinary Americans -- and then we need to make our case to the American people.

I always wanted a practical job.

"I would say it is a more practical job and also a much more accountable job now," he said.

Further Questions for Discussion: -What practical job training, if any, do you think your school should offer?

Lanier is often described as "visionary," a word that manages to convey both a capacity for mercurial insight and a lack of practical job skills.

As a student who loves literature, but sees little connection between my degree and a practical job, this freedom was unbelievably exciting.

Ever since then, he has attracted the label of "visionary", not always a compliment in the computer business, where it denotes, as the New Yorker memorably put it, "a capacity for mercurial insight and a lack of practical job skills".

I had always thought of apprenticeships as a route to getting a more practical job – being a mechanic or plumber – rather than a way to build knowledge but I'm so glad I discovered it.

But by that point, he said recently, the project was his in name only: he said he had been effectively cut out of the school's planning process, and his vision of an elite program had given way to one that was more focused on practical job skills.

Many students need reasonably-priced degree programs with a practical job-oriented flavor.