day job

noun

1. one's regular job and main source of income, usually viewed in contrast to a speculative or irregular endeavor:

   Good luck in the lottery, but don't quit your day job.

Example Sentences

One department launched an internal investigation after the Press and ProPublica identified an officer logging nearly 28 straight work hours between his day job and his moonlighting.

From ProPublica

This is the hardest thing that I’ve been involved with in my 40-plus years of having a day job.

From Ozy

A slew of moderate Republican governors whose day job is forging consensus could also remake the party in their image.

From Ozy

She quit her day job and began to work on the project full time.

From MIT Technology Review

He switched from morning dialysis to night sessions, because he wanted a full-time day job with insurance.

From ProPublica

And still, because their day-job world seems so shallow and so removed, we laugh.

From The Daily Beast

It was an all-day job, however, and another night was fairly upon me before I started for Oneida, sixteen miles away.

From Project Gutenberg

All this time Wight was as cool and possessed as if it was an every-day job with him.

From Project Gutenberg

Their every-day job, in short, is to get something well done with maximum dispatch and at minimum expense.

From Project Gutenberg

The next week he got only a half-day job, taking a party of ladies and gentlemen across the lake.

From Project Gutenberg

An' didn't I have to turn down his offer an' hang on to a dollar-a-day job?

From Project Gutenberg