An unremunerative occupation.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : remunerative work.    From Dictionary.com. 

For philanthropic folk will find it unremunerative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891] Reference

Many customers of that unremunerative order had the widow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference

She was so slow as to be unremunerative, as compared with horses.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Steam on the Erie Canal] Reference

I am nearly dead with dyspepsia, over-smoking, and unremunerative overwork.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vailima Letters] Reference

He was little interested in speculating over unremunerative problems of antiquity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquering Sword of Conan]

This he also rejects, as being expensive in management, and therefore unremunerative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference

The latter carriage proved unremunerative, the public hardly ever patronising seconds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway] Reference

Irving put his savings; the investments were as permanent as they were unremunerative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington Irving] Reference

‘You had rather I lamented my fate in not being able to devote myself to nobly unremunerative work?’.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Grub Street] Reference

This price, however, is unremunerative to the grower, so that, unless more encouragement offers, the supply will decline.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

He desisted from his unremunerative trial, and, to the audible annoyance of the rats, walked briskly up and down the cabin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrong Box] Reference

So she could afford to spend the time, if she wanted to, on these unremunerative matters, and she need not feel bad about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Shoes And Happiness]

He embarked on that most unremunerative of careers, epistemology, and entered a doctoral program in philosophy at Ohio State.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hive] Reference

Upon more careful inspection we find the wealth and luxury of our cities mingled with poverty and wretchedness and unremunerative toil.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

Why one takes these unremunerative and exacting and unrewarding jobs, I don't know, but there always seem to be people willing to do it.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Hundred Million Dollars for What?] Reference

Peter von Hagenbach, his deputy in charge of this unremunerative territory, is a character painted in the darkest colours by all historians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference

This is particularly true of potatoes, which have sold at an unremunerative price, or at a loss, as a direct result of overexpansion of acreage.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

Subject to illusions, she imagined that the good nuns, who received her as an unremunerative paying guest, were in league against her mangy, but beloved dog.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference

Two days of rough weather, and the blue bay had become discoloured with mud churned up by the sea, and the eagle found fishing poor and unremunerative sport.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference

It's an unremunerative drain on my time and energies, one more obligation every over-obliged day, and a burden of guilt each day when I don't add to the blog.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of Blogging Days - A Rumination] Reference

Ordinarily this was an unremunerative art, but on a few occasions I derived real profit from it, when my stilts enabled me to escape storms that were about to break over my head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference

As an investment, these possessions were extremely unremunerative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Market-Place] Reference

Let me once get power and Gulmore'll find his labour unremunerative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulmore, The Boss] Reference

But as the works were found to be unremunerative, they were shortly afterwards closed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Invention and Industry] Reference

After the first month I could discontinue with those who seemed likely to prove unremunerative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of Artemas Quibble] Reference

These expeditions to North America were very costly, and by their very nature unremunerative for the present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raleigh] Reference

Entry-level journalism is a painfully unremunerative job, especially for one of the most expensive cities to live in.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

It is believed, however, that his own works were unremunerative, and several manufactories on his pattern, erected in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel] Reference

Into some of these speculations Irving put his savings; the investments were as permanent as they were unremunerative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference

He was a safe blower for a while, but wisely soon abandoned that fascinating but precarious and unremunerative career.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conflict] Reference

"It is most unfortunate, but my -- er -- investments have been singularly unremunerative of late," said his Serene Highness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the Immortals] Reference

The publisher declared he could not undertake to bring it out without payment, as works of that nature were quite unremunerative.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Life — Volume 2] Reference

Then the unremunerative public works were abandoned; for many of these had been begun only for the purpose of occupying the prisoners.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890] Reference

Victor ejaculated: he never could reach to a right comprehension of labour, in regard to the very unremunerative occupation of literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference

A peaceful farming country this, but an unremunerative field, one would say, for the colporteur and the book-agent; and winter must inclose it in a lonesome seclusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing] Reference