Waitressing was a dead-end job.

服务员这一工作没什么前途。

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If you've successfully mustered the willpower to kick a bad habit or leave a dead-end job, you gain the confidence to confront other challenges.

如果你已经成功地鼓起勇气去戒掉一个坏习惯，或者离开一份没有出路的工作，你就会获得面对其他挑战的信心。

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No one wants to get stuck in a dead-end job.

没人愿意呆在一个没有发展前途的工作职位上。

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So says to this person, "Isn't it strange you have this dead-end job when you're twice as smart as your boss?

狗跟这个人说，”你不觉得很奇怪吗，你做这份没出头之日的工作,你的才智比你上司高一倍？

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Unlike Frey's past heroes, though, he's not a Wall Street hotshot but a paper products sales rep trapped in a dead-end job.

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If you know somebody who's caught in a dead-end job and afraid he can't afford the classes necessary to get better jobs for the rest of his life, tell him not to give up -- he can go on to college.

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He was stuck, not in a dead-end job but on the back road going 45 mph while many of his peers zoomed along the expressway in excess of 80 mph, and even faster for those who had learned to exceed the speed limit with impunity.

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