单词day job
n.: 日常的有薪工作；（白天的）正职
网络: 日赴一日；日常工作；全日性工作
日常的有薪工作；（白天的）正职:
the paid work that sb normally does
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
Will one of the co-founders be keeping her day job until the company gets off the ground?
所以要在事先了解清楚，是不是某个创始人会保留他的工作直到公司步入正轨？
When your day job gets in the way of your dreams, it"s easy to start feeling resentful.
一旦你的工作阻挡了你追逐梦想的道路，心存怨恨便是在所难免的了。
To pay for tuition, he took a day job that wasn"t too stressful ? as a security guard for a multi-national company.
为了支付学费，他早上做一些不需要太大压力的工作-在一家外国公司做保全人员。
Trollope"s strict work routine enabled him to keep his day job as a civil servant while being such a prolific writer.
特罗洛普严格的工作常规使他成为一名如此多产的作家同时仍能让他白天做好公务员这份差使。
But when I returned to my day job, I realized my MFA had been a pretty good management-training course.
但是当我重新开始每天的工作时我意识到艺术硕士（MFA）课程里有非常棒的管理培训课程。
He could have hung it up right then and resigned himself to his day job, doing cancer research in a lab.
他大可把脱口秀放下，专注于他的主业：在实验室做癌症研究。
If he wants to quit his day job and pursue music full time, he"s going to have to confront that aching question: to sell or not to sell?
如果他想要放弃别的工作而全身心地投入音乐中去，他必须面对这个折磨人的问题：大卖与否？
A taxi driver, who has a day job as a clerk in a government institution, said he and many colleagues have largely stopped going to work.
一位平时在政府机构担任职员的出租车司机说，他和很多同事基本上已不去上班。
Answer: If you have five hours a week to work on your business outside of your day job, save your PowerPoint skills for the office.
回答：如果在你的日常工作之外，你每周有5个小时从事你的业务，你还是把PowerPoint技巧留给办公室吧。
And while I could have quit my day job even if it hadn"t happened, it made it that much more sure for me. I can"t wait to tell you about it.
即使它没发生，我可能也辞职了，它让我更确信，我等不及要告诉你。