How to Use day job in a Sentence

day job

noun

• Before Brown arrives from her day job, the pair start readying things for the evening.
  — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• His wife, Theodora, stayed behind to manage the shop and continue her day job as a banker.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2020
• To make up for limited staff, she was often asked to drive to homes one or two hours away, despite her part-time schedule and day job.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 25 Sep. 2020
• The former mayor had launched an initiative to help the homeless by giving them day job, paying them to clean up the streets.
  — Martha Shade, CNN, 21 Sep. 2020
• Medinger is a large man with a booming voice and a day job at Harry & David, the gift basket company.
  — Diana Markosian, National Geographic, 7 Oct. 2020
• She’s a writer with a day job in marketing and a parallel career as a poet and essayist.
  — Megan Marz, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2020
• The album was written in Stone’s spare time, while not working his day job as a healthcare worker, according to a press release.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2020
• Volunteers worked on the house all summer, but no one put in more hours than Leticia and Maynor, who worked there evenings and weekends around their day jobs.
  — Marni Jameson, arkansasonline.com, 13 Sep. 2024
• Its singer, Hannah D’Amato, has spoken of managing her band during breaks from her day job as a nanny.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
• In choosing medicine rather than, as so many poets do, a college faculty post as his day job, Williams was better able to avoid the arid abstractions of the academy.
  — Danny Heitman, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
• As a mom with a full-time day job and a fulfilling but challenging side gig, I’ve long been used to robbing Mary to pay Peter and Paul.
  — Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2020
• Senior professionals, such as chief technology officers, would hold high-ranking positions within the reserves while keeping their day jobs.
  — Emily Dreibelbis Forlini, PCMAG, 22 Oct. 2024
• Trump, instead, has maintained that the best preparation is doing his day job — particularly his frequent and often contentious interactions with reporters.
  — Steve Peoples and Zeke Miller, chicagotribune.com, 26 Sep. 2020
• 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

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024