How to Use day job in a Sentence

day job

noun

• Rutherford thought about his day job and his kids in school.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 27 June 2021
• Lynette Grant lit a cigarette in the hour between her day job and night job and tried to relax.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2021
• David’s day job is as a pharmacist in northern Illinois.
  — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 June 2021
• O’Brien made the jewelry part-time, alongside her day job as a speech pathologist.
  — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 27 June 2021
• As time went on, Ferguson said school ended up taking a backseat to her day job and her music career.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 10 June 2021
• On the plane home from Jordan, Antony Blinken seems relieved to be talking about something other than his day job.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2021
• 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
• For most people, immediately quitting their day job to freelance is not a feasible option.
  — Caroline Castrillon, Forbes, 20 June 2021
• Biden’s tenure thus far is most notable for her decision to continue working at her day job, as a community college instructor.
  — Washington Post, 29 June 2021
• As the manager of a regulated utility your day-to-day job was to keep your generators spinning and make sure that your lines were up and substations running.
  — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 17 June 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
• 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
• 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
• Some have pushed off day jobs or moved near to the Washington, DC, courthouse.
  — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
• 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 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
• Curry isn’t quitting his day job just yet — not just as Peacock is about to get into the action.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 24 July 2024
• After a few years of working in the field, Desouza quit his day job to give him the flexibility to pursue a career in acting.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024