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Many survivors find it hard to hold down a job.
Lexi's dad was well meaning but couldn't hold down a job.
Lladrovci had never completed school or managed to hold down a job.
She says she struggled to maintain relationships or hold down a job.
For others, that's learning how to hold down a job (and their liquor).
You wrote that you're proud of your education and ability to hold down a job.
Many can't hold down a job; a tenth end up on welfare, and some become homeless.
Meanwhile, her mother can't hold down a job, and she always blames her supervisors for her failings.
I grew up in rural Ireland, where dogs are expected to hold down a job or two.
He's relatively unkempt, has the emotional maturity of a tween, and struggles to hold down a job.
Adults may find it difficult to hold down a job, form healthy relationships or care for their children.
Older students are more likely to attend school part time, and to hold down a job while doing so.
Eventually, with the right medication, she was able to hold down a job and move into her own apartment.
Many food-insecure students hold down a job on top of their classes, and many are receiving scholarships and loans.
In addition to all of this, they're required to hold down a job, perform community service or advance their education.
At times she dressed the part of a doctor or politician but has seemed unable to hold down a job.
Many people in our country live in regions where trying to hold down a job without a car is impossible.
Do you own a dog or a cat and also hold down a job that takes you out of your house?
He says he's doing better than before and has been able to hold down a job, but his depression has returned.
Photo: Patrick Semansky (AP)E-commerce giant Amazon has long been reported to be an unpleasant place to hold down a job.
The year before, unable to hold down a job, the elder Carmine Carini, with others, had committed a series of robberies on Staten Island.
Students take a three-year course which allows them to learn how to live independently and develop the skills needed to hold down a job.
He owned a gas station for a while, then couldn't hold down a job or be an effective parent; he died when she was 13.
That somebody can hold down a job and appear to the world as together, doesn't mean things aren't forever on the edge of falling apart.
Before he received the hand transplant in 2009, he used prosthetics which allowed him to not only hold down a job, but even drive a car.
She tells me she's worked as a waitress in some prominent tourist hotels here but couldn't hold down a job because her English wasn't good enough.
Because of debilitating panic attacks, she can't seem to hold down a job, get off the dole or provide a decent home for her young son.
She said she couldn't understand how anyone offended by Trump's words could hold down a job -- such was the everyday sexism that women experience in the workplace.
I am often told that I am an inspiration — usually because I hold down a job in a field not known for hosting very many disabled people.
The economy will take off for all of us, by Mr. Mulvaney's rationale, when each able-bodied American embraces the civic duty to hold down a job.
Unable to hold down a job, Gage became a drifter, bouncing from a job in a stable in New Hampshire to working as a coach driver in Chile.
A man who couldn't hold down a job, a man who may or may not have been certifiably mentally ill but who was clearly mad at the world.
Rex (Woody Harrelson) moves his family from town to town without warning—he struggles to hold down a job—and the children are young enough to believe his extravagant justifications.
"Medicaid coverage enables people to work," said Anne Marie Regan, senior attorney at the Kentucky Equal Justice Center, since it's harder to hold down a job when one is sick.
He now uses a highly potent concentrate that he said has helped him put his life back together, hold down a job and get married, which he did in July.
The siblings were eventually sent to live with various foster parents, only to be returned to their mother, who often struggled to hold down a job while fighting to stay sober.
He resented it, but continued to hold down a job throughout high school, working in pizza places and delicatessens, until he enrolled at the State University of New York at Oneonta.
States should have the flexibility to combine resources to help cover costs associated with caregiving, auto repairs, moving, and whatever else is preventing someone from being able to hold down a job.
After his military discharge, his father became a furious alcoholic, abusive, and unable to hold down a job, so the family was supported by his mother, who had dreamed of being an actress.
"If I can help someone like me, who's a father or a mother, trying to hold down a job and get their life back, who feels alone, then it'll be worth it," he said.
In a country that offers little to no paid leave, child care assistance or other supports, a new child can make it impossibly difficult to hold down a job or get a higher degree.
Basically, if you can go to a party and turn down coke, or have a long-term relationship, or hold down a job, take care of yourself and your body, then you can probably do it.
Even if a hardworking American struggles to hold down a job, he or she should still be able to save for retirement — "that's the way we make the new economy work better for everyone," he said.
LG: I would argue that even if it's not life threatening, that someone needing a root canal or having a cavity, or not being able to do their job effectively, or hold down a job effectively.
The surgeon had no idea if the procedure would work, but Molaison was desperate for help: His seizures had become so frequent that it wasn't clear if he would be able to hold down a job.
And in the meantime, we should start calling fathers who manage to do utterly normal things like hold down a job and pick up the kids from school a captain of nursery and see how it works for them.
My illness left gaps in my life where friends, experiences, and career progression should be, but I've learned to transition from a fear of leaving the house to being able to hold down a job and find a relative sense of stability.
I think we as women, we are emotional beings, so we need support, and I don't think they get the support here that they probably need to maintain their medication, to become a mother, to hold down a job, to be an effective parent.
Sex and relationships experts are divided over whether or not it's possible to be addicted to sex, but for many people the urge to have sex can be severely detrimental, affecting their mental health, relationships and even their ability to hold down a job.
"It wasn't very much, but we have to accept it, because right now there's nothing," said Flor Gaviria, 36, who quit working at a pharmacy last year because standing in supermarket lines to buy food was too time-consuming to hold down a job.
When he got out, he was unable to hold down a job for more than a few months, and once he did find one that he liked, at an antique store, "there was a lot of drug and alcohol abuse during the workday," he said.
" For people with Type 1 diabetes, human insulins "are harder to live on, lead to worse control, make it harder to hold down a job, impact quality of life," said James Elliott, a trustee at T1International, an independent patient advocacy group, "and not everyone lives near a Walmart.
So I thought I could understand where she starts off in trying to be a good mother, trying to hold down a job, doing this on her own, the pressures of all of that, how she gets into crack addiction and how she ultimately comes out of it.
"If someone is described as having disordered habits, I tend to assume this means they live with their habits, these habits aren't compromising their health severely and irrevocably, and they manage to hold down a job and have meaningful relationships — in spite of never eating anything red or being vegan or whatever," Osgood says.
"Every time the pain got bad, I would think some variation of, 'Oh no, I'm never going to be able to use computers again; I'm not going to be able to hold down a job; I'm not going to be able to earn a living; and I'm going to be in excruciating pain the rest of my life,'" he says.
However, with a mother battling a chronic illness, a retired father, a younger brother fresh out of college, an older one trying to get back on his feet while battling a drug addiction, and a niece who keeps having babies without being able to hold down a job, it's been season after season of Mary Jane talking down to her family out of frustration when tensions get high.
Now, in the mid-90s, Irene can't hold down a job or find love because of her lie-detecting gifts, Frankie, who hasn't moved much more than a pinball in years, chases get-rich-quick schemes to pay off his debt to the Chicago mob, Buddy doesn't speak for fear of upsetting the future and instead digs and refills holes in his father's yard, and Teddy, now in his 70s, spends his time living in the past.
"The last few years especially have been rough politically, and while it's imperative we make our voices heard, I think we're also starting to realize that we can't be in that state of pushing back and protesting with all our being 100% of the time, as well as hold down a job, and healthy relationships, without taking some time to help ourselves feel safe, and comforted, and recharge, and sure, maybe that means retreating a little to clear our heads," David offers.
But Department of Education figures put the number of kids leaving compulsory schooling in England without at least five GCSEs at A* to C at 39.7 percent; an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) study found that more and more young people are leaving school classed as 'low skilled,' meaning they struggle to get and hold down a job: an estimated 13% of 16- to 18-year-olds in the UK are NEETs (Not in Employment, Education or Training).
Then they spend the next three episodes invisible, before returning to their usual selves at the end of episode 20, with Bulk and Skull then spending the rest of the season trying to hold down a job.
Mary Mabel Bennett was born to Charles and Johanna Bennett. Her father was reportedly mentally ill, alcoholic, and unable to hold down a job. As a result, he was abusive and tried to kill her a number of times.
England: Anthony Blond Quartet Books Ltd. The title of Whitcomb's autobiography was derived from a quotation from his hero Evelyn Waugh: Most fools can get a book published, but it takes a particular kind of fool to hold down a job on a daily newspaper.
Gil's girlfriend Annette threatens to leave him unless he manages to hold down a job for just seven days, but this is not as easy as it sounds for accident-prone Gil. When he signs up with an employment agency called "Here To Service You", all manner of bawdy misadventures ensue.
On 6 October 2008, a Singaporean man, Roger Lee, was convicted of illegally landing on Pedra Branca. In court documents, he said he had gone to Batam, Indonesia, in 1998. He later married and started a family with an Indonesian woman, but she left him in 2007 due to his unstable income and inability to hold down a job.
The innocent 13-year-old boy is seduced, then sexually abused, by Father de Kern. Sébastien is expelled along with his only friend Bolorec, the boys having been accused of indulging in inappropriate sexual acts. The charges have been trumped up by Father de Kern. Sébastien's life is ruined and he is unable to hold down a job or make friends.
First appearing in Detective Comics Annual #6 (1993), Dwayne Geyer is given superpowers during the Bloodlines crossover. After being bitten by the alien Pritor, Geist is able to become invisible. He becomes less visible in dim lighting and completely invisible in bright light. This is useful in fighting crime but makes it impossible for him to hold down a job.
Unpredictable Cora has lived on an estate all her life. She’s never really had any money and finds it impossible to hold down a job. Even though she’s always skint, she does enjoy the finer things in life. She’s a fan of gold, and her big earrings may even outshine some of Pat's. This lary lady won’t back down from an argument and holds life long grudges.
Twelve-year-old Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) lives with his older sister, Louise (Léa Seydoux), in a housing complex below a luxury Swiss ski resort. Despite his age, he supports them by stealing equipment from skiers, then refurbishing and reselling it. Most of the money to support Louise's dating. She is selfish and irresponsible, unable to hold down a job and frequently going off with men, leaving Simon alone.
Alvin Purple is unable to hold down a job because of his appeal to women. He and his friend Spike help a team of women cricketers win a match by playing in drag, and decide to spend their share of the prize money in a casino. Alvin discovers he is identical in appearance to gangster Balls McGee. When Balls is killed, Alvin is forced to take his place.
It was found that they were mentally stressed after experiencing street harassment. Poor mental health has been found to be linked to street harassment caused by paranoia that certain spaces are not safe. The main way the women and girls put a stop to this was reducing the amount of time they spent on the street. However, this negatively impacted their ability to hold down a job or go to where they could receive healthcare.
Recently, some educators have shortened this to EL – English Learner. Typically, a student learns this sort of English to function in the new host country, e.g., within the school system (if a child), to find and hold down a job (if an adult), or to perform the necessities of daily life (cooking, taking a cab/public transportation, or eating in a restaurant, etc.). The teaching of it does not presuppose literacy in the mother tongue.
Eddy was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the only child of Caroline Isabel (née Kendrick) and William Darius Eddy. His father was a machinist and toolmaker whose drinking problem and inability to hold down a job required the family to move from town to town. Nelson grew up in Providence and Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and in New Bedford, Massachusetts. As a boy, he was a strawberry blond and quickly acquired the nickname "Bricktop".
As a young man he travelled and worked as a bronco buster in Montana, United States and as a lumberjack in Canada. He also travelled to China, Hawaii, Japan and Morocco. On returning home his father, fed-up with Crosbie's inability to get suitable qualifications and hold down a job, sent him to South Africa. From 1912, he ran a cattle ranch in Bechuanaland, and acted as a bush ranger to the Tati Concessions.
Komako Kimura and Kimura Hideo had a child out of wedlock 1908. Komako was ostracized because of this, making it difficult for her to hold down a job. Although she was not a socialist herself, she wanted more openness of thought and art in Japan, so she had been writing for the socialist journal Kumamoto hyóron. However, they did not deign to print her name on articles after January of 1908, when her unmarried motherhood became known.
In prison it was reported he suffered from hallucinations, possibly because of damage sustained from a truncheon blow during the arrest. He was transferred to Menston Asylum in Leeds (later called High Royds Hospital, now closed) where he spent the next eight years. He was treated with a variety of techniques, allegedly including electroconvulsive therapy and various drugs (hospital records have since been lost). Upon release Oluwale was unable to hold down a job and a permanent residence, and quickly became homeless.
He entered a government witness protection program and moved to California under another assumed identity. He had countless jobs, even trying to be a chicken farmer, but could never hold down a job and was constantly plagued by bad health. Additionally, letters from his family back in Germany explained that the Nazis still wanted to exact their revenge, leaving him in a constant state of fear. Sebold was diagnosed with manic depression and committed to Napa State Hospital in 1965.
Ramlee (Afdlin Shauki) is a down and out Malay boy who cannot seem to hold down a job, much to his mother’s (Kartina Aziz) disappointment. Out of a job and out of money, he stumbles across a challenge by sushi restaurant owner Honda (Patrick Teoh) to “eat all you can for free food – within a time limit”. Hungry and desperate, Ramlee attempts the challenge, and fails. In compensation, Honda (Patrick Teoh) lets Ramlee take a job at the restaurant to pay off his due.
A psychologist's view was that Bryant would never hold down a job, as he would aggravate people to such an extent that he would always be in trouble. Other cases that locals can recall include that he had pulled the snorkel from another boy while diving and had once cut down trees on a neighbour's property. He was described by teachers as being distant from reality and unemotional. At school he was a disruptive and sometimes violent child who suffered severe bullying by other children.
Because Johnny is an alcoholic and can rarely hold down a job, Katie becomes the family breadwinner by cleaning apartment buildings. Johnny, however, is more attuned to Francie's hopes of graduating from high school and becoming a writer. As Francie matures and develops an inclination toward academia, Katie realizes she is more devoted to Neeley than to Francie. Katie becomes pregnant just before Johnny dies and survives on her own until she agrees to marry Sergeant Michael McShane, a pipe-smoking local policeman-turned-politician.
After these inventories were administered the 15 most extreme attitudes at either ends of the scales were selected for further analysis (Seward, 1945). A follow-up interview was conducted to collect background information on home life, religious affiliations, and other potentially discrepancies between the groups. Seward (1945) found that in the most extreme groups a pattern emerged, a dichotomy in female attitudes toward the single female and the married female. Women whom were single could be independent, hold down a job and support themselves.
He drank too much, alienated the owners of commercial galleries that showed him, refused to promote his work, would not meet with collectors who were interested in buying, and seemed constitutionally unable to hold down a job. One acquaintance told this critic, that Sockwell refused to engage in the business side of art, saying "Carroll thinks being an artist is enough." Another said he did not paint as a career, but because he had to, "like a raw nerve." In the years following Sockwell's death his work sporadically appeared in commercial galleries and museum exhibitions.
Although Weiyun's mother, Yalian, (Cai Ping Kai) has severe dementia and doesn't remember who she is, Weiyun is the only one filial to her. Weiyun's brother, Jialong (Lin Weiwen) is unable to hold down a job and hides the fact that he is financially dependent on Weiyun from his wife. Weiyun's sister-in-law, Xu Guixiang (May Phua) is a housewife who grouses against Weiyun for staying with them in their already small flat, burdening the family. For Yalian's sake, Weiyun puts up with it for the general good.
Mary decides not to go to college since she lost her scholarship, but work instead. She cannot hold down a job, being fired everywhere, from The Pool Hall to Pete’s Pizza. While working at Pete’s, she meets Frankie and Johnny, a young, drug-addicted married couple who have a baby girl named Mercy. Eric and Annie learn that Mary has been caught drinking while babysitting her cousin, Erica, pulled over by a cop, and given a warning, and that she has numerous debts to credit card companies, insurance companies, and to her family.
Upon his release from prison, well-meaning thief Scott Lang moves in with his old cellmate, Luis. Lang visits his daughter Cassie unannounced and is chastised by his former wife Maggie and her police-detective fiancé, Paxton, for not providing child support. Unable to hold down a job because of his criminal record, Lang agrees to join Luis' crew and commit a burglary. Lang breaks into a house and cracks its safe, but only finds what he believes to be an old motorcycle suit, which he takes home.
Star, a black girl from the poorer side of town, lived with her drunk mother and little brother Rodney (their father had walked out on them). Star's mother could barely hold down a job, and more often came home drunk with a new 'boyfriend,' while Star was left alone to care for her little brother. Soon, Star's mother and one of her boyfriends decide to go find work elsewhere and 'come back' for Star and Rodney, and they are left with Star's grandmother, who is more of a mother figure to Star than her real mother ever was. Star's mother never returns.
While serving in that capacity, he received a phone call from George Shultz inviting Hughes to be the spokesman for the State Department and Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs. Back in Orleans, the joke among editors and reporters in the Cape Cod Oracle newsroom was, "poor John Hughes: he can't hold down a job for more than six months." Following four years in Washington D.C., Hughes returned to Massachusetts where his newspapers were flourishing. He resumed his control of the companies, but eventually sold them when neither of his children wanted to fill his position.
Unable to hold down a job because of his criminal record, Lang agrees to join Luis' crew and commit a burglary. Following a tip, Lang breaks into a house and cracks its safe, but only finds an old motorcycle suit, which he later tries on, accidentally shrinking to the size of an insect. Terrified, he returns the suit to the house, but is arrested, and then broken out of jail by the homeowner, Hank Pym. Pym reveals that he had previously operated as the superhero Ant-Man and had manipulated Lang through an unknowing Luis into stealing the suit as a test.
The main character, a thirty-something surfer named Brice, lives for one thing: the perfect wave to surf, despite the fact that Nice lies on a completely waveless bay on the Mediterranean Sea. While waiting, he uses his rich father's money to throw outrageous parties and develop hilarious insults, as well as worship the film Point Break. When his father is arrested for money laundering, however, things change: Brice's life comes crashing down around him, and after failing to hold down a job, he soon finds himself attempting bank robbery. He lands in hospital after the failed robbery attempt, and runs away from there with the man whose scooter he hijacked while escaping the bank.
Carl Lorthner (Andy Samberg) is a park ranger and the head of outdoor security for Pawnee. He constantly talks extremely loudly, speaking at screaming levels even when asked to talk quietly, and works as a ranger because he cannot hold down a job that involves working indoors due to his inability to control the volume of his voice. Carl appeared in "Park Safety", in which Jerry claimed to be mugged in Ramsett Park, which fell under Carl's territory. Leslie launched efforts to make the parks safer and had Carl take them on a tour of the area; he showed Leslie, Tom and Jerry around on a mobile cart that had been attacked and urinated upon by raccoons.
The book focuses on what Hare refers to as the "successful psychopath", who can be charming and socially skilled and therefore able to get by in the workplace. This is by contrast with the type of psychopath whose lack of social skills or self-control would cause them to rely on threats and coercion and who would probably not be able to hold down a job for long. Hare appeared in the 2003/4 award-winning documentary film The Corporation, discussing whether his criteria for psychopathy could be said to apply to modern business as a legal personality, appearing to conclude that many of them would apply by definition.The Corporation Transcripts and Extras - Hear more from... Hare.
In 1965, Jeremy Thorpe, a Liberal Member of Parliament, must contend with disgruntled ex-lover Norman Josiffe, whom he met in 1961 and had a relationship with for several years. Thorpe had met Norman when the latter was a 21-year-old stable boy in Oxfordshire and wrote many letters to him, which Norman kept. Norman, who could never quite hold down a job, particularly not after having lost his National Insurance card, was unstable and had a penchant for drama and self-expression, both of which proved increasingly hard to deal with. When Thorpe grew tired of Norman and insisted that he leave the house he had arranged and paid for in London, the young man began to make threats.
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em is a British sitcom created and written by Raymond Allen and starring Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice. It was first broadcast from 1973 and 1975 and ran for three series, including 2 Christmas specials in 1974 and 1975, after a three-year absence it returned for a fourth series in 1978 and returning in 2016 for a one-off special. The series follows the accident-prone Frank Spencer and his tolerant wife, Betty, through Frank's various attempts to hold down a job, which frequently end in disaster. The sitcom was noted for its stuntwork, performed by Crawford himself, as well as featuring various well-remembered and much lampooned catchphrases, that have become part of popular culture.
Thomas spends the next few years living with Harry in a cramped basement apartment and attempts to live on only occasional sexual encounters with women he only meets once. (This is complicated by the fact that wizards are at war with vampires; if a vampire is found in Harry's apartment it will cause trouble.) In Dead Beat Thomas is shown as increasingly frustrated, both because he can't hold down a job due to his vampiric powers, and because he feels Harry doesn't sympathize with his hunger. After demonstrating to Harry how it feels, he seems to calm down. But Harry still worries about him, especially in Proven Guilty where Thomas vanishes during the day for months at a time, with no mention of where he's been, and moves out of Harry's apartment.
William Thomas Hughes (born 8 August 1946, Preston, Lancashire) was the first of six children born to Thomas Hughes and his wife Mary. He had little interest in his education, his academic performance was poor and he was prone to antisocial behaviour and petty criminality from a young age. He failed to hold down a job for any lasting duration after leaving school at age 15. Hughes' escalating criminal behaviour resulted in spells in approved school and Borstal; he received the first of multiple prison sentences in 1966... left Hughes was married with one child, the relationship was beset with abuse, violence and infidelity.. In March 1976, he left his wife and moved to Chesterfield with his girlfriend where, on the night of 21 August 1976, he beat a man with a brick and raped the man's partner after meeting them in a local nightclub.
240px Played by Steven Weber, Brian Michael Hackett is the more carefree of the Hackett brothers. His irresponsibility is often a source of consternation to older brother Joe; he had a "free ride" to Princeton and dropped out, was accepted into the astronaut training program at NASA and was soon expelled because he was too unreliable, saying that he would have become an astronaut if they let him take his dates into the simulator, and has lost other lucrative opportunities due to his chronic irresponsibility. Ironically, when Brian has attempted to act responsibly it has caused problems for Joe. When Brian managed to hold down a job flying charter flights on the Caribbean island of Mustique, this also emboldened him to seduce Carol to run off to Mustique with him, which caused a rift between the brothers to the point that Joe cut Brian out of his life.
Monty does not work, however, because of any need for income; as he himself explains, there are "wheels within wheels". He is in love with Gertrude Butterwick but her father, named J. G. Butterwick in this novel (it'll evolve), feeling that his daughter should not marry some kind of a waster, requires Monty to hold down a job for a full year, and Gertrude, being an old- fashioned sort of girl of solid middle-class stock, refuses to elope with Monty. His time at Tiny Tots is brief, however, as he finds himself left in charge one day when the regular editor, the Reverend Aubrey Sellick, is away on vacation. His efforts at writing a piece for the "Uncle Woggly to His Chicks" column results in a swift and acrimonious parting between Bodkin and Tilbury's employ, and the hunt is on for new work.
On the advice of his friend and fellow-Drone Hugo Carmody, he once again uses his uncle, this time to wangle the post of secretary to Lord Emsworth, recently vacated by Carmody. He spends a few happy days at Blandings, in company of his former fiancee Sue Brown, before events conspiring against him, particularly Lord Emsworth's suspicions of anyone connected to the Parsloe-Parsloe camp, lead to his expulsion from the post. He tries to get back in with Lord Tilbury by stealing Galahad Threepwood's reminiscences, but is scuppered by Percy Pilbeam; he later takes revenge on Pilbeam, but repents and ends up paying him handsomely for the chance to work for his Detective Agency, the Argus, for a year. In "The Plot That Thickened" Monty manages to hold down a job in the entertainment industry, only to be informed by J.G. Butterwick that it does not count.

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