day job

noun

1. 日常的有薪工作；（白天的）正职
   the paid work that sb normally does

1. PHRASE 不要放弃正职
   If someone tells you not to give up the day job, they are saying that they think you should continue doing what you are good at, rather than trying something new which they think you will fail at.
   1. It's a kind way of telling aspiring novelists, 'Don't give up the day job'.
      这是劝诫立志成为小说家者“不要丢了正业”的一种温和方式。

1. It's a kind way of telling aspiring novelists, 'Don't give up the day job'.
   这是劝诫立志成为小说家者“不要丢了正业”的一种温和方式。
2. Notch quit his day job and founded a studio, mojang, which now employs over 30 people.
   切口先生辞掉了工作，创办了一个叫Mojang的工作室，现在它已经有了30多个员工。
3. In her day job, she advises small businesses on problem solving and growing profits.
   她的本职工作是为小企业提供咨询，包括如何解决问题和实现利润增长。
4. Trying lots of different things, while holding on to his day job, led him to come up with a formula: every skill you acquire doubles your chances of success.
   亚当斯尝试了很多不同的事物，同时不放弃自己的日常工作，这使他得出了一则公式：你获得的每一种技能可以让你成功的机会增加一倍。
5. It is the main area of responsibility in your day job.
   这也是在你日常工作中最主要的部分。
6. Getting it down in words was very hard, even though I considered the act of explanation my day job.
   即便我想用文字解释我日常的工作都很难。
7. It's safer to stay at your day job.
   停留在你现在的工作上比较安全。
8. Don't give up your day job.
   不要放弃你的白天正式工作。
9. I quit in 2006, and went back to my old day job of journalism.
   我在2006年辞去了这份工作，回到传媒业干老本行。
10. Eventually he managed to line up a few retailers to stock the loom, and quit his day job.
    终于，吴昌俊说服了几家零售商购买彩虹织机，然后他辞去了工作。
11. When he was seven months old, I returned to my day job, working part-time.
    他七个月大的时候，我找了一份兼职，又开始正常的白班工作。
12. You can continue to dance for fun, but separately from your day job.
    你可以继续为了兴趣跳舞，但是要把它和工作分开来。
13. I won't quit my day job.
    我不会放弃白天的工作的。
14. Be authorized to arrange the employee's day to day job task.
    经授权安排员工日常的工作任务。
15. And my day job is that I study ancient Greek tragedy and then try to teach it to undergraduates.
    白天我研习古希腊悲剧，晚上把这些教给本科生。
16. This is my day job euh.
    这是我白天的工作。
17. Dream, but don't quit your day job.
    你可作白日梦，但也要做白日工。
18. Nothing wrong with thinking about the future, but some enterprise architects have got a day job as well.
    思考将来没有错，但是某些企业架构师也已经找到了一份日常工作。
19. Partly it is because my dream is an addition to what I do already: I have not given up the day job.
    部分原因在于，我的梦想是我所做事情的附加品：我没有放弃我的日常工作。
20. Like the others, his main reason for attending the training session is to help his day job.
    米德沃斯来上这门课的主要原因与其他人一样，都是为了方便自己的日常工作。
21. If that's a problem, keep your day job.
    如果你有工作动力问题，还是继续打工吧。
22. Besides, if you are an investment banker, you already know all about price manipulation, brand hype and market panic from your day job.
    不过，如果你是一位投资银行家，在日常工作中就应该已经对价格操纵、品牌造势和市场恐慌了如指掌。
23. Career is not just your day job anymore& career is how you spend all your time.
    职业生涯不只是你的日常工作了职业生涯是如何，你都用你的时间。
24. Brian: Day job? I'm a singer. This is my job.
    布莱恩：正职？我是歌手，这份是我的工作。
25. The disadvantages are also clear: if you get caught by your boss misusing resources or getting distracted from the day job, there will be trouble; and a business run in your spare time will never receive the focus and devotion it needs to be truly successful.
    劣势也是明显的：如果老板发现你滥用资源或者不专注于平时的工作，你就会有麻烦；你利用业余时间经营的生意永远得不到企业真正成功所需的关注和投入。
26. I want to do my day job on my beautiful toys.
    我想用我那些精致的小玩意工作。
27. But as Zhang Ni discovers, preventing fires is more than just a one day job.
    但是正如ZhangNi发现的，防火不只是一天的工作。
28. Of course, I have a day job too.
    当然，我也有日常工作。
29. It is just part of their day job.
    相关审查只不过是他们日常工作的一部分而已。

n.

don't give up the day job

• 别放弃白天的正职（别放弃老本行去尝试没有把握的新事物）
  used to tell sb that they should continue doing what they are used to, rather than trying sth new which they are likely to fail at
  1. So you want to be a writer? Well my advice is, don't give up the day job.
     这么说你想成为一个作家了？得了，我劝你不要放弃老本行。