Anyhow, after a struggle of weeks and a thousand taunts from Jack, I finally found a waitress job at a restaurant.
Is this sentence grammatically perfect? I doubt it.
What if I transform it into this
Anyhow, after weeks of continuous struggle and facing painful taunts of Jack, I finally found a waitress job at a restaurant.
It should be something like: Anyhow, after struggling for weeks trying to find a job and enduring a thousand taunts from Jack, I finally found a waitressing position at a restaurant.
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It should be something like:
Anyhow, after struggling for weeks trying to find a job and enduring a thousand taunts from Jack, I finally found a waitressing position at a restaurant.
For comparison:
Anyhow, after weeks of struggle and thousands of taunts from Jack, I finally found a job waitressing at a restaurant.
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