Then again, my first temp job was working with the email manager at Novell, which is where I learned my basics of computer knowledge, and look at me now.
Yeah, I learned Microsoft Access at my first temp job, which lead to my current job....
Up until the punching, it was a real nice party.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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tommyrot - Sep 15, 2006 6:08:08 am PDT #3294 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jessica - Sep 15, 2006 6:09:22 am PDT #3295 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I don't miss temp work at all.
God, me neither. The only good thing about temping was that it kept me from being broke, and not being broke was the only thing keeping the soul-sucking depression at bay. (Temp-to-perm is a whole nother thing. Chronic temping made me want to curl up in a ball and cry. For two years.)
Aims - Sep 15, 2006 6:18:35 am PDT #3296 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NORA!!!
Trudy Booth - Sep 15, 2006 6:20:34 am PDT #3297 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
HAPPY B-DAY NORA!!!!
askye - Sep 15, 2006 6:24:54 am PDT #3298 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
My first temp job lasted 2 hours, but I got paid for 4 hrs (it wasn't my fault they didn't want me). My second job one of the first things I heard was "We haven't had a temp last all day, they go to lunch and don't come back." Less than an hour there and I figured out why, but I stuck it out for the day and then told the agency I didn't want to go back.
juliana - Sep 15, 2006 6:32:00 am PDT #3299 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NORA!!!!
I liked temping, but I was temping at the height of the boom & could command a very nice hourly wage and long-term gigs. I don't think I could do it now.
megan walker - Sep 15, 2006 6:38:49 am PDT #3300 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I liked temping, but I was temping at the height of the boom & could command a very nice hourly wage and long-term gigs. I don't think I could do it now.When I first moved to NYC for grad school, I loved temping, when I returned to it about 8 or 9 years later, the hourly wage hadn't changed and it sucked.
Cashmere - Sep 15, 2006 6:45:40 am PDT #3301 of 10000
Now tagless for your comfort.
My favorite temp job was sorting apples in an apple orchard. Most fun. Smelled great and I got to eat all the apples I wanted.
esse - Sep 15, 2006 6:55:40 am PDT #3302 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
well, the definite non-careerness of temping takes the edge off it some for me. What I'd really like is a nice, three month gig using my IT skills. Coming off three years working pretty upper-level university IT training jobs to answering phones is kind of... huh.
DavidS - Sep 15, 2006 7:02:15 am PDT #3303 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I temped for 10 years by choice since I could afford to take about three months off out of a year to write. I worked my way up to where I got the plumb assignments filling in for maternity leaves. I did that at the Federal Reserve Bank for almost two years, going from leave to leave. Work three months, then take six weeks off. I worked in the Internal Audit department and the Federal Regulations Department (where I got to see interesting reports on credit card fraud [very hard to catch] and how the divestiture movement affected South African banks [quite a lot]).
I also temped for two years in Boston where I worked at Lotus Development (when it was the biggest software seller in the world, and Microsoft was "just the company that makes the operating system for IBM); WGBH (I ate fresh produce from the Victory Garden and worked near Bob Villa. Also met adults who had been on Zoom), and Harvard Business School (where I had the cushiest gig ever and read all of One Hundred Years of Solitude at my desk).
Happy birthday, Nora! Drink a beer today!