How to Use day job in a Sentence

day job

noun

• 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
• My day job is a five-minute walk to the Ohio City location.
  — John Benson, cleveland.com, 22 July 2019
• 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
• Before Brown arrives from her day job, the pair start readying things for the evening.
  — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• 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
• And balance my day job—baking cookies in the test kitchen.
  — Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appétit, 1 Dec. 2024
• Quitting your day job is far from the first step in taking charge of your career.
  — Jennifer Magley, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• The Voice’ ready to give up his day job and pursue country music full time.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 17 Mar. 2020
• 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
• Julien might want to stick with his day job riding horses.
  — Danielle Lerner, The Courier-Journal, 30 July 2019
• All of us had day jobs: grad school, teaching, editing.
  — Sarah Menkedick, Longreads, 17 Jan. 2020
• Some have pushed off day jobs or moved near to the Washington, DC, courthouse.
  — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
• The divers have day jobs, Mr. King noted, and spend their free time looking for shipwrecks as a team.
  — Neil Vigdor, New York Times, 19 July 2019
• 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
• Tony Romo might have placed his day job in jeopardy, at least for one week.
  — Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• 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
• For the first four years, Avent kept his day job, kick-starting the nursery with $5,000 in proceeds from his house sale.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
• 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
• My day job is to critique literature and writing and teach students how.
  — Gwen Faulkenberry, arkansasonline.com, 12 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Jan 2025