I’m an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.
Bob Smith from Brooklyn is a guy who sometimes gets hung with problems and fears. Wolfman Jack is a happy-go-lucky guy who knows how to party. The challenge of my life has been letting more and more of Bob Smith go, becoming the Wolfman on an almost full-time basis, while still taking care of business.
As someone who has been both a full-time mom and full-time in work force, I know we all have valuable experiences that shape who we are.
Music is something I do full-time in real life. I was doing music long before I was even thinking about acting.
In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.
I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists – I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I had no time – and so I became a compulsive outliner of everything. Ever since then, my process has consisted of trying to forcibly rid myself of that compulsion.
In my early twenties, I got the basics covered. In retrospect, one of the great things about success is that I never really had to work in a factory full-time. So that’s a blessing.
‘Wings’ offered me the rare opportunity to be a full-time dad and a working actor for eight years.
While managing a career and family leaves, some parents feeling guilty and frazzled; others seem to be able to effortlessly balance parenthood with full-time work. Parents who are able to raise well-adjusted children while also maintaining a career make sacrifices to keep the peace.
I have this wonderful schedule where I work full-time and also get to be a full-time mom.
It’s not always easy being a full-time feminist – especially as a young woman – when you’re constantly being told that what you do is irrelevant. I’m on the defense all the time.
I still have a day job, so I don’t think I’ll be a full-time Shark, but if they ever invited me back, I’d be more than happy to do it.
I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.
I worked as a receptionist in England for a couple of years whilst I was building up my business. I decided to take a massive pay cut from my full-time job and work as a receptionist so I could make my own business work.
My parents sacrificed everything for me. My father worked on a building site and as a driver – so many jobs. My mum was at home full-time to take care of me, my sister, and two brothers.
Being a young Kiwi lad, a young Polynesian boy, I was pretty close to my family. But when I moved to Sydney, I went from training twice a week, playing touch footy with my mates, to working full-time as a labourer and training professionally.
Let’s face it – online promotion of your books could easily become a full-time career if you’re not careful. But if you’re not writing regularly, then it won’t be long before there’s nothing to promote.
Even after I’d published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.
I was brought up in a restaurant, I’ve worked in catering my whole life up until I was 20 full-time almost, I was a chef for my dad for many years.
Managing your own property can be a full-time job.
The adoption process was not an easy one. The paperwork took nine months. It’s a full-time thing!
I’ve got confidence that I’ll be able to pick it up eventually, but that’s the reason I’m a full-time Sevens player this year: because I knew coming into it that it would be really tough, and I’ve got to give it my all.
I have so much respect for women that are full-time moms in the house. It’s such a difficult job.
I’m in a very successful band. We all love each other. It ain’t ever breaking up. I also have a terrific hobby that became a full-time job. My only problem? There’s not enough time to sleep in my world.
When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.
I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.
I want to do something for Kirkcaldy and Fife. I am a full-time MP, not a businessman.
I have the best job in politics in Alabama. As the attorney general, I just go to work every day and think of a way to sue the Obama Administration. If you don’t think that is fun, that is a full-time job.
I have a great team. A lot of my focus every day is with my television and film career, directing and producing, and I guess you can say that my moonlighting gig is Tropfest. Obviously, when I am not working I am in the Tropfest office full-time.
It’s a conscious decision, a full-time job, to be happy.
I knew when I was 10 that I wanted to act full-time.
I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always wanted to be a writer, but I didn’t think that anyone could actually be that full-time, so I always go back to conducting and arranging and playing. If you scratch me, I’m a musician.
Because by the time I went to the village school in Switzerland, we’re talking about September 1965, she was finishing ‘Wait Until Dark’ which was released in ’66. That’s when she gave up being an actress to be a full-time mom – in a farmhouse with fruit trees.
My favorite is ‘The Last Coyote.’ I’m not saying that’s the best book I’ve written; I hope I haven’t written my best book yet, but that one was the first book I wrote as a full-time author, with my full-time focus. I have a nostalgic feeling about it.
Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness – I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full-time.
If I could have had the opportunity to be a full-time fighter while I was one of the best in the world, what could I have done then?
I’ve been teaching full-time for 41 years at small colleges, and I can’t imagine what it would mean for me or my colleagues to be armed with handguns or rifles instead of books and a thorough knowledge of our chosen disciplines.
These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when you consider that the poverty line has not been adequately adjusted to reflect the true level of poverty in this country.
My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It’s a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I’m a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That’s my best way to keep from going crazy.
I am grateful my own eternal companion served a mission in Hawaii before we were married in the Salt Lake Temple, and I am pleased that I have had three granddaughters serve full-time missions.
After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
Access to quality child care is critical for working families, and attending college is often a full-time job.
In 2013, I dedicated myself full-time to combating the very real impacts of climate change. Working across the country, NextGen Climate Action formed new coalitions and worked hard to make climate change a part of our national conversation – and across the country, we had a big impact.
To me, the special parts of the day – and also the ones that fit with a full-time job – are bedtime and wake-up time. So I try really hard to be there for my kids as many of those nights and mornings as I can.
Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you’re away for a few days, you have to start again.
I would say a full-time waiter in a high-price house could easily make $75,000, $80,000 a year.
I am very happily employed as a full-time software engineer; I travel a lot, and I write books along with this here weekly TechCrunch column; and I still find the time to work on my own software side projects.
My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.
My husband’s there full-time with our son so he’s leading on that side of things. He’s the one who has the homework battles Monday to Thursday.
I found it hard being a full-time mum and take my hat off to anyone who can do it.
I was emancipated at 15. I went to school and had a full-time job and apartment, and ever since, I’ve been on my own, parenting myself.
There’s a lot of focus on kids like Macaulay Culkin or others who had bad situations at some point in their careers and not enough focus on the people who do good like Natalie Portman or Claire Danes. It’s hard for children to have these full-time jobs with all this responsibility.
My mother looked after me full-time when I was young, but as soon as I started school, she got a job in an office.
I don’t want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.
At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.
