Nearby students toil at the legendary St Petersburg Academy of Arts.
Enter through a concrete lobby in an anonymous building fronted by corrugated sheeting a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean in West L.A. and suddenly you're in a hangar-esque space where some 200 acolytes toil at desks and tables constructed from the same cheap red plywood used for packing cases.
No longer do single-task workers toil away at single-task machines.
In his mind, the low pay and risk of failure at a startup would beat the months of fruitless toil he experienced during a recent internship at France Telecom.
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The five initial MOMA frescoes are uneven in quality, having been made in six weeks of around-the-clock toil in an improvised studio at the museum.
More importantly, while the World Cup boasts famous and well-paid footballers, the bulk of Olympic athletes toil for years beyond the media spotlight at sports of even greater obscurity.
The Irish will toil for years to service rescue loans that, at Europe's insistence, pay off the bondholders of its defunct banks.
Even among the linemen who toil anonymously in the NFL's trenches, guards have long resided at the bottom of the pecking order.
The November fire at the Tazreen garment factory drew international attention to the conditions workers toil under in Bangladesh's textile industry.
Some 42m poor households toil for a government scheme that guarantees them up to 100 days of work at the minimum wage each year.
And unlike pilots at the scene, these remote observers are unaffected by the physical toil of flying a jet or the adrenalin rush of combat.
For two decades, scientists have sought a vaccine that would keep HIV from spreading, or at least from turning into full-blown AIDS. Their slow toil has led to a string of failures.
But to reach that stage the Scot, who missed being best man at his brother David's wedding on Friday to attend the weigh-in, first had to toil.
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