A woman named Leigh Michaels moves to Los Angeles, and finds a job directing live television.

The film so impressed his boss that he was offered a job directing parts of a variety show.

But Mr. Sokolow said the exposure helped them land another job directing a sitcom for a Web site.

After the show was cancelled quickly, she got a job directing on The Simpsons, and stayed for three seasons.

The next day he offered me a job directing a schools' production at Nottingham Playhouse.

A longtime job-hopper at 19, she takes temporary jobs directing traffic at construction sites, then blows most of her money on clothes and trips.

I went in thinking, 'Maybe I can get a job directing another movie.'

Mr. Jones (above) worked on his screenplay for years, in between jobs directing commercials for some of London's top advertising agencies.

Inside was a newspaper advertisement for a job directing a new center, the Human Performance Laboratory at Ball State.

This got him a job directing the pilot and first two episodes of Cold Feet in 1996 and 1998.