How to Use day job in a Sentence

day job

noun
  • The elves fit their work in around their day jobs.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 4 Dec. 2025
  • In other words, don’t quit your day job yet.
    — Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Last week’s town hall brought home just how small-scale Buttigieg’s day job is.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 28 June 2019
  • His day job is as a performer at Disney.
    — Cecilia Vega, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
  • This doesn’t mean that Freeman is giving up his day job.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2026
  • Do any of the royals have day jobs outside of their palace duties?
    — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 June 2019
  • But Adams still wasn’t making enough money to quit his day job.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The day she was born, Smoove made the decision to quit his day job.
    — Alexandra Hurtado, Peoplemag, 25 May 2024
  • Some, no doubt, are drawn by Keenan’s day job as a singer of the band Tool.
    — Richard Ruelas, AZCentral.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Along with her day job and her blog, Suennen co-hosts a podcast.
    — Rebecca Robbins, STAT, 6 June 2018
  • This is all of our present-day reality, and even some of our day jobs.
    — Darryl Seligman, Space.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Some were even able to quit their day jobs and become influencers.
    — Emma Banks, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026
  • Wiedenfels said the same wisdom applies to his day job and his next step.
    — Lillian Rizzo,alex Sherman, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Quitting your day job is far from the first step in taking charge of your career.
    — Jennifer Magley, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Tony Romo might have placed his day job in jeopardy, at least for one week.
    — Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Don't quit your day job, Fernando.
    — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Our shoots were generally one-day jobs.
    — Dan Beck, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Favela still works his day job and the build out of Border X was very much hands-on.
    — Matt Jaffe, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2018
  • But his day job at the bank started to interfere with his goals for his account.
    — Cooper Worth, Des Moines Register, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The Voice’ ready to give up his day job and pursue country music full time.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 17 Mar. 2020
  • Who better to have in the lineup than someone whose day job is tossing folks to the ground.
    — Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2023
  • That answer may have nothing to do with your day job, and that’s OK.
    — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Cobalt works in tech but has recently been spending more time on patrol than at her day job.
    — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The event featured me and three poets, each of whom loved their day jobs at nonprofits.
    — Vince Passaro, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • In his day job, Antonovich works on the sensor systems for self-driving cars.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2026
  • And all of this because of a doctor who believed that saving lives wasn't just her day job.
    — Steve Hartman, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Before Brown arrives from her day job, the pair start readying things for the evening.
    — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 21 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • Then again, Chekhov, a doctor, seems to have got a lot out of his meaningful day job.
    — Liana Finck, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
  • 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

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