It might also result in a few more second glances on bus journeys for Spencer, and maybe the odd job offer.

BBC: England captain sacrifices all for World Cup glory bid

Mr. THOMPSON: ...we're looking at that, but we're just going to have to be a little bit better at not letting the tractors sit around in idle while we're doing an odd job.

NPR: The Toll of High Gas Prices: Two Stories

Mr Blass had a few lessons at an art school, and was taken on as an artist and odd-job man by a clothes manufacturer.

ECONOMIST: Bill Blass

He's a bit of an odd-job guy.

FORBES: Gateway To the Stars

He looks an odd choice for the job of restraining ministers who spend taxpayers' money.

ECONOMIST: Germany

Chelsea Clinton seems an especially odd candidate for this kind of job.

FORBES: Chelsea Clinton, Nepotism, and News

Among 60-odd Pardhis squatting outside Ashti, only one has a formal job, as a school janitor.

ECONOMIST: India's criminal tribes

It made her an odd fit in the Washington of 1981, when she took a job working for Bob Dole, of Kansas, on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

NEWYORKER: The Contrarian

In an odd three-degrees-of-separation, White's old job as head of equity capital markets at Credit Suisse was reclaimed by Ernesto Cruz, who is married to Zoe Cruz , the former head of fixed income at Morgan Stanley whose promotion to co-president of the firm in March helped precipitate the management turmoil.

FORBES: Lewis's BofA Adds Morgan Stanley Veteran

And it will have to be even more aggressive in cutting costs, which may mean even bigger job losses at the group, on top of the 30, 000 odd already announced or made.

BBC: Hester concedes RBS to miss profit target

It occurs to me that forty-odd years ago I was pushing Olivier around a toy theatre on a wire, and now I have his job.

NEWYORKER: Curtain-Raiser