How to Use day job in a Sentence

day job

noun

• His day job, at the time, was as a supervisor in the city’s subway system.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2024
• Chiu shared that she's figured out how to combine her love of haute couture with her day job: by forecasting plastic surgery trends based on the styles heading down the runway.
  — Andrea Park, Marie Claire, 15 Jan. 2021
• The folk-country balladeer started his music career playing small clubs in Chicago while holding a day job as a mailman.
  — oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2020
• At the onset of Story, Ms. Al-Rubeyi was still working a day job as a fashion-trend forecaster.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2021
• Instead, this attempt for the studios to cash in on the youth market one more time kicked off a side career that remains as impressive, if not as extensive, as the songwriter’s day job.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024
• In his copious spare time cooped up in a North Carolina hotel room, Walker also got down to business on his actual day job.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Mar. 2021
• Crumley is continuing her day job as Global Team Blue’s senior project manager while running her clothing business on the side.
  — Minnah Arshad, Detroit Free Press, 20 Feb. 2021
• His day job is executive director of philanthropy for the Art Institute of Chicago.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 10 Mar. 2021
• More interested in building lavish houses and causing neighborhood drama than attending a day job and climbing that corporate ladder?
  — Reece Rogers, Wired, 4 Feb. 2021
• Neither the band nor the byline is her day job, though.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
• The day she was born, Smoove made the decision to quit his day job.
  — Alexandra Hurtado, Peoplemag, 25 May 2024
• In 2016, the three musicians met a couple of times a month to record in the midst of their day jobs.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Rutherford thought about his day job and his kids in school.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 27 June 2021
• In 2020, Rene was stuck at home and burned out from her day job in mental health.
  — Christina Tkacik, Baltimore Sun, 16 Aug. 2022
• That answer may have nothing to do with your day job, and that’s OK.
  — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Nov. 2022
• On top of her day job, Corbett makes and sells qaspeqs.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Jan. 2022
• In 2017, after the books began to take off, Herron quit his day job.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
• His day job has had him on the road for more than a decade, traveling for half the year in 10- and 11-day stretches.
  — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• Who better to have in the lineup than someone whose day job is tossing folks to the ground.
  — Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2023
• On top of their day jobs, the two nuns adopted four children and fostered at least 70 more.
  — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• The irony was Forte’s star within the casino industry — his day job — was on the rise.
  — Kevin Pang, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2021
• Quitting your day job is far from the first step in taking charge of your career.
  — Jennifer Magley, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• Thank God practicing law is our day job for both of us.
  — Arden Farhi, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2022
• Our question is very simple: Why not just get back to your day job?
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 31 May 2021
• Some have pushed off day jobs or moved near to the Washington, DC, courthouse.
  — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
• The late Brian Dennehy, who had a day job at Merrill Lynch at the time, had stepped into the part.
  — Peter Canby, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
• After the third season, Wall went all in, quitting her day job to make more time for snakes.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2024
• Lynette Grant lit a cigarette in the hour between her day job and night job and tried to relax.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2021
• For those first years Constantine didn't quit his day job.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2023
• Brownie Marie: So, not many people know this, but my day job has been in tech for about 10 years now.
  — Essence, 7 May 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024