side job

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Up until she was hired to play overbearing mom Beverly Goldberg on “The Goldbergs,” Wendi McLendon-Covey worked a side job in addition to acting in films like “Bridesmaids” and shows like “Reno 911!”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2024

He has picked up some roofing work at construction sites, and his neighbor proposed a new side job: digging graves.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 2023

In a 2018 interview on daytime chat show Live with Kelly and Michael, he recalled his first acting gig in 1991 as a teenager with a side job delivering newspapers.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2023

He became so interested in chemistry that he took a side job as an assistant for a chemist at a dairy that churned butter.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2023

He refused to take any side job, even at an art school or museum, that might distract him from his work or require that he subordinate himself to another person.

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2023