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
• 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
• The Closer and got called back to his day job sooner than expected.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2022
• There's a lot of poking fun at the bureaucracy, a lot of poking fun at sort of the day-to-day job of it.
  — CBS News, 13 July 2022
• Looking at the reaction of the audience, many felt Cousins should stick to his day job.
  — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2023
• Loading them was no one-day job and in the melee, Patches (Mrs. giraffe), kicked Smith down more than once.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2022
• Walter would continue to live in Chicago and tend to his day job.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2022
• Her fortunes soon changed after a fateful run-in with the Wayans brothers at her day job.
  — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
• More recently, Mullen moved to weekends on The Wave, while working a day job at Overstock.com.
  — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 July 2021
• His day job, at the time, was as a supervisor in the city’s subway system.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024