Sentence examples for sensible job from inspiring English sources

And I don't think I would have been much use in any sensible job".

After all, if I wanted a steady, sensible job where every day was the same, I'd probably be doing something else.

But he remembered being impressed by the institute's work, saying, "I thought in passing that smarter people than I had done a sensible job of figuring out this tricky problem".

Many observers of the movement have also sent books: self-published tomes; a copy of "Sensible Job Interviewing: Understanding the Employer's Role and Responsibilities"; the Steve Jobs biography; and illustrated copies, in English and Spanish, of "The Communist Manifesto".

"Where's your bodyguard?" "How big is your house?" "When you told your parents you wanted to be a writer, did they tell you to get a sensible job like being a lawyer instead?" No fans have given me weird things.

COLORADO SPRINGS — On his belated honeymoon to the Greek island of Santorini after the 2004 Athens Olympics, Andy Potts debated whether he could become even better as a triathlete or if it was time to get a sensible job.

And after terribly brief run-ins with Jerome (Brittany, 1987), and Thingummy (Cornwall, 1988), I too came to believe this and staked my claims a little closer to home, with nice, sensible men in nice, sensible jobs who were polite to my mother.

I pushed myself painfully through a proper education, an Oxford degree, then applied for sensible jobs and even did a few of them.

In which case, C2 will not be intended as equivalent to C1 but as identifying a reputable and sensible conceptual job the carrying out of which will serve some of the more respectable purposes served by C1 while happily abandoning the others.

But between my own teenage insecurities and my parents' wish that I "have a good education to fall back on," I stayed put, finished my education and got a sensible, professional job.

Among Stern's sensible proposals:  a job-sharing program paid for by unemployment insurance funds; an infrastructure bank drawn from taxing past foreign earnings of corporations; and a massive expansion of  AmeriCorps to aid the nearly four million unemployed people ages 16 to 24.